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

Noctua aims to effectively banish thermal paste horror stories and gooped-up CPU sockets
By Jess Kinghorn Published
Computex 2026 Keeping your cool.

MSI announces the MEG Vision X2 AI Plus, a gaming desktop with an AI agent and a 'cylindrical display interface' built in
By Jess Kinghorn Published
Computex 2026 Pause for the OpenClaw.

AMD chief Dr. Lisa Su tells MIT graduates, 'Technology itself does not decide what the future looks like. People do'
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News "[AI] cannot make the hard judgment calls with imperfect information. It cannot take responsibility for the outcome."

ByteDance has had enough of waiting months for processors, so it's going to make them itself
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News 'No AMD or Intel makes ByteDance go something, something.'

A Google engineer who allegedly made over $1,000,000 after predicting 2025's most-searched person has now been arrested for insider trading
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Neither crime nor gambling pays out.

Samsung workers to take home $340,000 on average thanks to union's vote to approve historic profit-share deal
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Memory makes much money, mate.

DuckDuckGo's AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week following Google's insistence that people love AI mode
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News "People just want a choice."

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'
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News In it for the long haul?

This soft and bendy hologram fan is touch friendly, and also *checks notes* can be used to prevent chemical burns
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Reach out and touch space.

Cosplayer creates a real-life Cyberpunk 2077 jacket, complete with a flexible OLED collar that you can actually game on
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Following the thread.

'Technology is never neutral': Pope Leo XIV criticises 'culture of power' driving AI race, and refuses to be taken in by consciousness claims
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Finding common ground in unexpected places.

The EFortune Cookie is an adorable e-paper fortune-telling device and I really want to give it a bite
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Shake it to wake it.

'What we’re building is grounded in consent, credit, and compensation for the artists and songwriters that take part': Planned Spotify AI tool can generate remixes and covers
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News I'm not really feeling this beat.

Nvidia continues to make astronomical amounts of money from AI, with the first quarter of 2026 being its biggest to date
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News They still make GPUs too, ya know.

'Every single frontier model company will jump on Vera Rubin from the get go': Nvidia CEO insists the future looks bright
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News "It will surely be more successful than even Grace Blackwell."

Security researcher describes freshly uncovered Windows 11 vulnerability as 'one of the most insane discoveries I ever found.'
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News The king in yellow.

Devs, be careful what you plug in: GitHub security breach was apparently facilitated by a 'poisoned Visual Studio Code extension'
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News A full incident report is on the way.

'If engineers are becoming three or four times more productive, then we just [want to] do three or four times more stuff': Google DeepMind CEO reckons AI-induced job cuts aren't inevitable
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News He also says there's 'something missing' from AI game development.

'AI Mode has been a revelation, our biggest upgrade to Search ever. People love it,' says Google CEO
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News But I still think there's an AI industry bubble that could burst.

Microsoft says it's going to 'fundamentally raise the bar' on driver quality, reliability and security across Windows
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Start your engines.

Discord just got the privacy feature it probably should have had for years, introducing end-to-end encryption for very nearly every voice and video call
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News "Likely one of the internet’s most platform-diverse E2EE voice and video implementations."

Microsoft continues to build towards a passwordless future by phasing out an authentication method that's become 'a leading source of fraud'
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Bad news for forgetful folks like me.

'Please stop submitting AI slop code': team behind popular PS3 emulator call time on user submitted vibe coding
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News "This wastes maintainer time and, in worse cases, such changes get merged and break functionality for all users."
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