following an eight-year stint at itproportal.com where he discovered the joys of global techfests, désiré now heads up techradar pro. he has an affinity for anything hardware and staunchly refuses to stop writing reviews of obscure products or cover niche b2b software-as-a-service providers.meet the whole techradar team and find out how to contact themhistorytechradar was launched by future plc in 2008 with a team based mostly in the uk, plus a couple of overseas writers to spot breaking stories while we slept. it quickly grew to become the uk's biggest consumer technology site, a position it still holds to this day.it soon became time to go global, so we expanded to the us in april 2012 with a dedicated american team hired in what were then future plc's san francisco and new york city offices.in october 2012, techradar launched in australia, with the site again leveraging future plc's existing presence in sydney to hire a local team that has grown steadily in size over the following years. it is now one of the country’s leading tech sites.we began the techradar awards program in 2015, and are proud to recognize and award the companies we think are deserving of your applause each and every year. check out our techradar choice awards 2022 page to find out about last year’s winners.(image credit: future)today, the core team is still spread across the uk, us and australia, and is known for its reliable reviews and reporting on the latest and greatest tech. techradar has continued to rapidly expand its global reach, and the site is now licensed in over 10 additional countries around the world, and available in 10 different languages.we now reach up to 70 million readers a month in the us, uk, canada, australia, europe and beyond - we're honored to have each and every set of eyeballs and continue to focus on what matters to all of them.whatever time of day it is, there's someone, somewhere in the world, online and working on techradar to bring you the best in tech news, reviews, features and buying guides.why we carewe hand test all the tech to go beyond reviews into features, analysis and opinion too. (image credit: techradar)the team at techradar has been carefully selected to only include those that love the world of technology. we don't just want to talk about it, we want to try it, to live it, to breathe in everything about it so we can give our readers the inside scoop on what actually matters.this means that we go the extra mile when it comes to telling you what's happening behind the scenes in our testing. we've published hundreds of articles from the perspective of our writers, telling you when something is great, the technology we can now no longer live without... and the stuff you simply have to avoid.one of our testers going hands-on with the latest macbook pro (image credit: future)we'll run 31 miles with four watches strapped on to see if the numbers really do add up. we'll plug ourselves into motion capture to see how games are really made. we constantly talk to the biggest names in tech to find out what's really going on.and we do it because we're just like you: gadget fans who just want to know what's going on and getting the best out of their tech.how we testwe pride ourselves on our independence and our rigorous review-testing process, offering up long-term attention to the products we review and making sure our reviews are constantly updated and maintained - regardless of when a device was released, if you can still buy it, it's on our radar.we have assembled a global team of some of the finest technology journalists on the planet, who are not only experts in their field, but are the same people we write our reviews for: those who want to know about and use the latest and best technology.this is our promise to you:we do not take payment for product reviews. ever.we select products for review based on what we believe our readers want to know.we'll tell you what we think, not what advertisers want you to hear.