
Jess Kinghorn
Jess has been writing about games for over ten years, spending the last seven working on print publications PLAY and Official PlayStation Magazine. When she’s not writing about all things hardware here, she’s getting cosy with a horror classic, ranting about a cult hit to a captive audience, or tinkering with some tabletop nonsense.
Latest articles by Jess Kinghorn

Nvidia says AI models lack 'common sense' so it's drafting in good old fashioned human beings to give them a pop quiz
By Jess Kinghorn published
News 'Learning' or simply coding?

TSMC hits record 70% foundry market share, making a synapse singeing $30.24 billion in revenue last quarter alone
By Jess Kinghorn published
News AI GPUs and data centre servers continue to be massive business.

Labor Day PC gaming deals 2025: the best bargains available today
By Jess Kinghorn last updated
Deals Treat yourself this Labor Day with some great savings on gaming monitors, laptops, and the latest PC hardware.

Age verification legislation is tanking traffic to sites that comply, and rewarding those that don't
By Jess Kinghorn published
News So much for horny jail.

Gemini's 'Nano Banana' AI image editor can't crop a picture, but its penchant for deepfakes 'while keeping you, you' makes me want to wear a brown paper bag on my head forever more
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Time to become the office cryptid.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang advises AI customers to 'pace themselves' after GPU clusters sell out, but the company says it's going to continue to scale up
By Jess Kinghorn published
News What am I humming? Bubble Pop by HyunA, for no particular reason.

Sandisk is back at it again, launching a speedy WD 1 TB SSD that will only set you back $80 straight out of the gate
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Nippy and spiffy at a reasonable price even without a discount.

Windows 95, arguably the first PC gaming OS, is still being used... to sort eggs in Germany
By Jess Kinghorn published
News There's definitely an 'eggs-box' pun in here somewhere, but you won't see me making it.

Zoomable magazine archive lets you plunge eyeball-first into personal computing's first baby steps through the 70s and beyond
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Byte back.

Asus has announced even more Hatsune Miku-themed gaming gear, further leading me towards financial ruin
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Haha, I'm in danger.

PCIe 5.0 SSDs can still be pricey—but I've found one with a $40 discount that may justify the upgrade for my rig
By Jess Kinghorn published
Deal After years of degrading my attention span, I simply must have the fastest boot drive.

The Framework Desktop's small footprint is deceptively cute, as it's actually sequestering serious compute power that makes it the best mini AI PC
By Jess Kinghorn published
Small but mighty Get ready for a rumble in this tiny jungle.

Best mini PCs in 2025: The compact computers I love the most
By Al Bickham last updated
Teeny Peecees Searching for a new super-compact gaming machine? Look no further.

My best friend recently taught me an important lesson about AI pessimism: Don't remain silent and accept no substitutes
By Jess Kinghorn published
Here's hoping After seeing their local pride event use AI for its logo, my freelance creative bestie bullied them into giving her a job...and that makes me feel just a little bit hopeful.

At less than six cents per gigabyte, this budget SSD makes me sorely tempted to jump back into Baldur's Gate 3 and dip a toe into its thriving modding scene
By Jess Kinghorn published
Deal It's finally time to download all of the mods.

In a twisty tale of corporate espionage, TSMC employees allegedly shared 400 photos of the company's cutting-edge 2 nm process node with a Japanese rival
By Jess Kinghorn published
News This is a developing story, and the Japanese firm's relationship to the leakers is not yet clear.

Microsoft's beta Gaming Copilot AI is now available for Xbox Insiders, to 'help you get to gameplay faster, sharpen your skills, and be there when you need it and out of the way when you don’t'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News AI? More like A-I would rather not.

Alleged 3-person smuggling operation accused of shifting tens of millions of dollars’ worth of AI chips to China potentially faces up to 20-year prison sentence
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The defendants allegedly received $1 million payments from China-based companies.

Remote IT worker scam involving 90 laptops and stolen identities generated $17 million in illicit revenue allegedly bound for North Korea's nuclear weapons program
By Jess Kinghorn published
News A woman faces an eight year prison sentence as a result.

OpenAI now says ChatGPT 'shouldn't give you an answer' when asked: 'Should I break up with my boyfriend?'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Though if you're looking for someone to tell you to dump him, Reddit is still only too happy to oblige.

Security researcher quips maybe it's time to get 'a real job' after being paid meagre $1,000 bug bounty by Apple
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Pay 'em what they're worth!

DeepMind CEO makes big brain claims, saying AGI could be here within 'five to 10 years' and cause humanity to experience widespread change that's '10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and maybe 10 times faster'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News I'm not getting my hopes up though.

'Maybe nobody wants this and it won’t work': Amazon is chucking an undisclosed amount of cash at AI-generated TV shows, but I'm struggling to see the appeal
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Three thumbs down.
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