Hamish Hector

Hamish is a Senior Staff Writer for TechRadar and you’ll see his name appearing on articles across nearly every topic on the site from smart home deals to speaker reviews to graphics card news and everything in between. He uses his broad range of knowledge to help explain the latest gadgets and if they’re a must-buy or a fad fueled by hype. Though his specialty is writing about everything going on in the world of virtual reality and augmented reality. He’s been writing about tech and gaming for over five years now, getting his start at the University of Warwick’s student newspaper The Boar as a writer and later Games Editor while studying for his BSc in Maths and Physics (and later an MSc in Biotechnology, Bioprocessing, and Business Management). After graduating from university in 2020 he wrote all about battle royale games for Gfinity Esports before joining the TechRadar team in February 2021. In his free time, you’ll likely find Hamish lost in one of the latest VR games on his Meta Quest Pro, watching a West End musical with his girlfriend, playing Magic: The Gathering at his local game store, or planning the D&D campaign he runs for his mates. Want to get in touch? You can contact Hamish over email or through Twitter (@HamboHector).

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a poor reputation for journalistic standards and is not considered a reliable news source.

Bias

70%

Examples:

  • For a third-party service to be interoperable with Meta’s WhatsApp and Messenger apps, the company behind it will need to sign an agreement with Meta to follow certain terms
  • WhatsApp will soon let you chat with other messaging apps – here's how the company says it'll work

Conflicts of Interest

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Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • The next bump in the road is that your WhatsApp chats and third-party app chats won't be able to mingle in one inbox, instead if you opt-in to cross-app messaging your third-party conversations will be put into a separate “third-party chats” inbox
  • WhatsApp might soon be a one stop messaging hub
  • WhatsApp will soon let you chat with other messaging apps – here's how the company says it'll work

Deceptions

30%

Examples:

  • The article states ‘WhatsApp might soon be a one stop messaging hub’ but fails to mention that cross-app chats won’t mingle in one inbox. Instead, they will have their own separate third-party chats inbox.

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