
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

You too can get Miku Hatsune to dance around the inside of your rig for less, with $60 off my favorite CPU cooler with a screen
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Prime Day You could also use it to display your CPU temps—I'm not judging!

I've just noticed Zalman is spinning up a new line of circular tower coolers that look a lot like itty-bitty jet engines
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News I reckon these will take off.

Google Veo 3 users long to immerse themselves in the worlds of their AI-generated videos, seemingly forgetting entire videogame genres already exist
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News Dreaming small.

X's latest terrible idea allows AI chatbots to propose community notes—you'll likely start seeing them in your feed later this month
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News Confidently wrong.

Fresh zero-day vulnerability in Chrome found to be actively exploited by hackers in the wild
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News And you're not necessarily safe if you don't use Chrome either.

AMD offers an update on Project Amethyst, a Sony collaboration that's already 'delivered smarter, more efficient solutions like Super Resolution in FSR 4'
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News Tech as a team sport.

Cloudflare will block AI web crawlers by default, and introduces new Pay Per Crawl scheme that means AI companies will have to fork out for the privilege to scrape
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News The bill has been long due.

The US claims $81.5 billion bonus revenue from Trump tariffs but that's a drop in the ocean compared to its spending deficit
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News How much!?

Accused of being AI after racking up well over 400,000 monthly Spotify listens, The Velvet Sundown claims they are 'a real band' and 'never use AI'
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News Never give the robot the Aux cord.

I'm not just blowing hot air—$112 for this Lian Li Lancool 216 case is a cracking deal
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Deal Easy breezy.

Ring is using AI to generate video descriptions of what goes on outside your door—and to keep even more detailed tabs on 'the routines of your residence'
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News Always watching.

Research team shares new method for sucking gold out of old PC hardware, making some progress towards shrinking our mountains of e-waste one day
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News No more nightmares.

US judge rules that Anthropic's use of copyrighted content to train AI was fair use, but pirating books is step too far
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News You lose some, you lose some.

This hack that lets you remotely steer and stop a Nissan Leaf makes me almost thankful I'm too broke to ever afford a clever car
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News That's a nice motor you've got there—it'd be a shame if white hat hackers were able to take the wheel.

Tiny anime girl cyberprison billing itself as a 'customizable 3D digital soulmate' reaches its Kickstarter funding goal in minutes
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News Do androids dream of electric weebs?

Software engineer creates a real-life ad block using Snapchat's AR smart glasses, but ultimately ends up making something far more distracting than ads
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News Begone, brand!

The Lenovo Legion Go is now $20 cheaper than when I last wrote about it, which was a day after the Nintendo Switch 2 launched
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Deal It's definitely not the Switch 2—but that's no bad thing at all.

A battle over air quality between Musk's xAI and the citizens of Memphis now looks to be heading towards the courts
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News Fighting giants.

Calling AI a threat to 'human dignity, justice and labor,' Pope Leo XIV of all people takes on Big Tech
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News I'm definitely not looking to convert, but I'm listening.

Google AI happens to be really bad at playing Pokémon, repeatedly 'panicking' and taking more than 800 hours to beat the Elite Four
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News Do AI agents dream of Mareep?

It's time to update Asus Armoury Crate, folks—the latest vulnerability could allow hackers to compromise your Windows OS
By Jess Kinghorn published
News In the club, we all care about system security.

Sony WF-C510 earbuds review
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Itty bitty Wirefree but not worry-free.

This $40 electric screwdriver is a must-have for fixing tech on the go, or putting together your next PC build in style
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Upgrade your desktop AND your tool kit.
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