Katie Wickens
Screw sports, Katie would rather watch Intel, AMD and Nvidia go at it. Having been obsessed with computers and graphics for three long decades, she took Game Art and Design up to Masters level at uni, and has been demystifying tech and science—rather sarcastically—for three years since. She can be found admiring AI advancements, scrambling for scintillating Raspberry Pi projects, preaching cybersecurity awareness, sighing over semiconductors, and gawping at the latest GPU upgrades. She's been heading the PCG Steam Deck content hike, while waiting patiently for her chance to upload her consciousness into the cloud.
Latest articles by Katie Wickens
Threads threatens to muscle in on Mastodon's Fediverse and admins are up in arms about it
By Katie Wickens published
news Privacy concerns have lead to petitions being signed to keep Meta out.
I watched my school descend into an OG Battle Royale situation in this Japanese academic management sim
By Katie Wickens published
class dismissed "And so our compulsory education was coming to an end."
Fake discounts are rampant even before Amazon Prime Day's kick-off
By Katie Wickens published
Non deals Here's the low-down, and how to avoid getting fooled when it comes to deals.
It might be tougher than expected to buy Apple's Vision Pro headset in its first year
By Katie Wickens published
news The manufacturer is looks to be having a hard time, with only 400,000 units expected.
Microsoft's light-based computer marks 'the unravelling of Moore's Law'
By Katie Wickens published
news Analog, iterative machines ditch binary transistor switches for photons and electrons to process at the speed of light.
Windows AI Copilot has just hit Windows Insider builds
By Katie Wickens published
news "Copilot, delete System 32."
How Master Chief made it onto this very scientific survey of the most stylish video game characters is utterly beyond me
By Katie Wickens published
Slay I know people want to cosplay as these characters, but does that automatically make them stylish?
Iran finally admits its 'quantum processor' was in fact not quantum at all
By Katie Wickens published
news Oops, little typo there.
This guy's tech mandalas are giving me an ontological crisis
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news Computer is god.
Skytech Chronos 2 review
By Katie Wickens published
limited spectrum An impressive gaming machine for the price, with a couple of small caveats.
I took on Corsair's new DIY iCue Link system just as any good PC builder would: with no instructions
By Katie Wickens published
diy dabbling The Corsair iCue Link system aims to "reignite your passion for DIY" and even though putting it together without instructions was stressful, it was worth it.
Great moments in PC gaming: Building a little server community in Project Zomboid then dying six times in a row
By Katie Wickens published
Grr Arg Zombies, zombies everywhere.
The Diablo 4 team confirms DirectStorage isn't working in the game 'but we are planning on enabling it in the future'
By Dave James published
News Microsoft's funky SSD tech should be landing in Diablo 4 at some point.
This is awkward: some aerospace company just rebranded as RTX
By Katie Wickens published
news Jensen Huang might have something to say about this.
Any app that makes 'create desktop shortcut' the default option is going straight in my recycle bin
By Katie Wickens published
Deskflop Here's how to stop rogue icons from haunting your home screen.
The 'miserable experience' of iFixit's new MacBook Air teardown has me yearning for the hot-swappable future of gaming laptops
By Katie Wickens published
news Right to repair? Eh, kinda. Roll on Framework's modular gaming laptops.
Millions of perfectly fine HDDs are shredded each year because of 'zero risk' security policies. Spoiler alert: There's still a risk of stolen data from just a 3mm scrap
By Katie Wickens published
news There are better, safer, greener ways to deal with old hard drives.
Our favorite RTX 4080-powered monster laptop for $2,300? Yes, I think I will
By Katie Wickens published
deal Nvidia RTX 4080 | Intel Core i9 13900HX | 16-inch | 1600p | 240Hz | 32GB DDR5-5600 | 1TB SSD | $2,299
Twitter founder warns that we're heading toward a VR-obsessed future of humans in 'floating chairs, drinking their food out of straws'
By Katie Wickens published
news From Wall-E to Snow Crash, Jack Dorsey has some rather dystopian visions of a future fuelled by VR.
The US won't force the world's biggest chipmakers to back out of China even if it apparently makes them 'look very weak'
By Katie Wickens published
news The Biden administration plans to keep trade export-control policy restrictions loose for top semiconductor manufacturers.
Zephyr's new RTX 3060 shows off its sensitive side as the first ever graphics card with a pink PCB
By Katie Wickens published
news It so delicate and adorable, but it's not available in the US.
7,178 subreddits and counting have gone dark today in protest of a 3rd-party app pricing calamity
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news Reddark is upon us, with a combined user count of two-and-a-half billion.
Iran's 'quantum processor' turned out to be a $600 dev board
By Katie Wickens published
news The internet has wholly debunked claims over the so-called 'first product of the quantum processing algorithm.'