Jess Kinghorn

Jess Kinghorn

Hardware Writer

Jess has been writing about games for over ten years, spending a significant chunk of that time working on print publications PLAY and Official PlayStation Magazine. When she’s not investigating all things hardware here, she's either constructing a passionate defence of a 7/10 game, daydreaming about her debut novel, or feeling wistful about the last time she chased some nerds around a field with an oversized foam sword. 

Latest articles by Jess Kinghorn

Rear biker riding a motocross bike, kicking up mud and dust at the camera as they turn - stock photo
Browser-based dirt bike game is 'Motocross meets Wall Street,' letting you ride Nvidia and Intel's stock charts

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News Getting revved up.

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A virtual representation of a motion capture rig tracking the movements of a 3D, anime-style avatar.
This DIY motion capture rig features 16 cameras made from scratch and is doing nothing to assuage my Vtubing delusions of grandeur

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News DI-why not?

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Mark Zuckerberg wearing Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses
Reports suggest Meta was working on another facial recognition feature that was quietly pushed out to millions of users before being just as quietly deleted

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News Smart glasses continue to be a scourge.

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Rory Read, CEO of AMD pauses during an interview in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday, June 6, 2012.
Redditor finds AMD museum piece that once belonged to ex-CEO Rory Read, stashed away in a basement

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News Signed and sealed.

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A split screen image of Google's offices in Toronto, Canada, and a close up phone photo of Search's AI Overview.
Google claims most users know 'information generated with AI should not be blindly trusted,' but a court ruled it's still liable for false claims made in AI Overview

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News I doubt this will be the last time an AI getting it wrong results in legal repercussions.

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Two of the bright red HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari AI PC float in a blue-pink gradient void.
This snazzy red laptop from HP and Ferrari has a “carbon fiber and glass construction”, costs $5,599, and doesn't have a dedicated GPU

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News It wouldn't be a Ferrari collab if it had a decent engine in it.

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Nvidia RTX Spark SoC in hand
I expected Nvidia's keynote to leave out gaming entirely, but the RTX Spark's purported 5070-like performance is a pleasant surprise

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Computex 2026 Simple things please simple minds.

Computex 2026
A tiny 3D printed Alex Honnold free solos up the side of a much bigger 3D printed recreation of the Taipei 101 building. The whole structure is built onto a Hyte Y70 Touch PC case.
This skyscraper-shaped custom PC at Computex has a food stall out the front selling 'Taiwanese sausage with sticky rice' and a rock climber free soloing up the side

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Computex 2026 You've gotta hand it to them.

Computex 2026
An RGB samurai sword on a pedestal that is actually a PC. The words 'Shugo' can be seen on the wall behind the exhibition piece from Corsair.
We stood in awe in front of Corsair's RGB samurai sword PC at Computex, and we've got the pictures to prove it

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Computex 2026 Looking sharp!

Computex 2026
Someone has tried to jam a full size Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 into the back of a MSI gaming monitor. It was not to be.
This gaming monitor has a feature that I've never seen before in a display: a slot that you can jam a full graphics card into

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Computex 2026 Would you ever game on an all-in-one machine?

Computex 2026
The Thermaltake Capo X PC case as seen on the showfloor at Computex 2026.
What's better than one high tier gaming rig? A double-decker gaming rig, according to Thermaltake

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Computex 2026 Yo dawg.

Computex 2026
The Cherry XTRFY K63W Pro Compact 70% Ultra-Wideband wireless gaming keyboard floats in a gradient void.
Cherry attempts to change my mind about wireless gaming keyboards with world's first Ultra-Wideband button basher

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Computex 2026 A clacking good time?

Computex 2026
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks at the Nvidia GTC event on the sidelines of Computex 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday, June 1, 2026.
'People talk about AI reducing jobs, complete nonsense': Nvidia's Jensen Huang criticises economic doomerism on GTC stage

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Computex 2026 I'm not sure I agree, guv.

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Computex 2026
Four of darkFlash's latest co-branded Sanrio PC case collaboration. From left to right, the PC case designs feature PomPomPurin, Kuromi, Hello Kitty, and Cinnamoroll.
DarkFlash unveils another Sanrio PC case collaboration, but I dread to think what a pretty penny it will cost to build a full Cinnamoroll gaming rig

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Computex 2026 Cute as a button.

Computex 2026
A stylised, promotional render created by Intel to demonstrate the multiple tiles and complex construction of its Panther Lake processors
Intel targets India for a new $3.3 billion factory that will make the base substrates for its next generation of chips

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Computex 2026 Glass more than half full.

Computex 2026
The ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Edition 20 is seen mounted on the open-frame ROG GR20 PC case on the showfloor of Computex 2026.
As if ROG Astral 50-series graphics cards could get any beefier, Asus has just announced a CHONKY anniversary update

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Computex 2026 Funky and chunky, larger than life.

Computex 2026
The NT-CP1 AM5/4, a cooling pad made by Carbice, is seen applied to a CPU as an alternative to thermal paste.
Noctua aims to effectively banish thermal paste horror stories and gooped-up CPU sockets

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Computex 2026 Keeping your cool.

Computex 2026
A marketing image featuring the MEG Vision X2 AI⁺ gaming desktop. MSI's agentic AI LuckClaw is featured inside the cylindrical AI holostage built into the PC's chassis.
MSI announces the MEG Vision X2 AI Plus, a gaming desktop with an AI agent and a 'cylindrical display interface' built in

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Computex 2026 Pause for the OpenClaw.

Computex 2026
Lisa Su giving MIT's class of 2026 commencement address.
AMD chief Dr. Lisa Su tells MIT graduates, 'Technology itself does not decide what the future looks like. People do'

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News "[AI] cannot make the hard judgment calls with imperfect information. It cannot take responsibility for the outcome."

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Singapore - July 28, 2025: Exterior view of ByteDance's Singapore office at One Raffles Quay. ByteDance is a Chinese multinational internet technology company.
ByteDance has had enough of waiting months for processors, so it's going to make them itself

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News 'No AMD or Intel makes ByteDance go something, something.'

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US $1 dollar bill in mid-air melting, red gradated background.
A Google engineer who allegedly made over $1,000,000 after predicting 2025's most-searched person has now been arrested for insider trading

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News Neither crime nor gambling pays out.

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The Samsung Electronics labour union stage a mass rally demanding the removal of a cap on performance bonuses, outside the company's foundry and semiconductor factory in Pyeongtaek on April 23, 2026.
Samsung workers to take home $340,000 on average thanks to union's vote to approve historic profit-share deal

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News Memory makes much money, mate.

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CHINA - 2025/03/19: In this photo illustration, A woman browses DuckDuckGo website on her laptop.
DuckDuckGo's AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week following Google's insistence that people love AI mode

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News "People just want a choice."

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the left, and an Nvidia building sign on the right.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company plans to invest around $150,000,000,000 in Taiwan each year, describing the country as the 'epicentre of the AI revolution'

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News In it for the long haul?

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A person touches a capacative, hologram fan display to skip between music tracks.
This soft and bendy hologram fan is touch friendly, and also *checks notes* can be used to prevent chemical burns

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News Reach out and touch space.

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