Latest articles by Jess Kinghorn
Grokipedia claims to be 'a massive improvement over Wikipedia' but sure loves to copy its homework
News Always check your sources.
'I have no mouth, and I must clean': Just in time for Halloween, this $20,000 robot allows a human operator to look through its eyes for training purposes
News The future of household robotics is not quite here yet, I reckon.
A UK retailer has honoured a redditor's £20 Fractal Design PC case purchase: 'You made it go viral. So we did what we believe is right—we owned it.'
News Good guy Gotraka?
A fake livestream featuring an AI-generated, crypto-promoting Jensen Huang was broadcast at the same time as the Nvidia GTC keynote, gaining 5x more live views than the real thing
News The AI-generated video appeared to show Jensen Huang promoting a "crypto mass adoption event".
The Melt Mouse isn't some Dali-esque nightmare, but rather a touchpad and haptic-equipped squeaker with serious Apple vibes
News Nowhere near as goopy as the name suggests.
Researchers discover that dehydrated mushrooms can function like biological RAM after they've been zapped with electricity
News Though these "fungal memristors" have a lot of catching up to do.
Here's an RTX 5090 that you can water cool, without worry about breaking a $2000 graphics card
News You may not be able to 3D print an RTX 5090, but you can 3D print an RTX 5090 coaster.
Razer Raiju V3 Pro wireless controller review
Score: 83% PlayStation stylings coming at a premium.
Scuf Valor Pro wireless controller review
Score: 79% When Scuf design meets Razer pricing.
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2025 Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.
Razer Kraken Kitty V2 Gengar Edition review
Score: 64% A cute ghost not quite offering the most.
A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke
News The second best time to back up your files is right now.
A YouTuber has built his own VR headset for a little over $150 and made the whole project open source, so I might just give it a go
News Virtually affordable.
Sick of clicky-clacky keys? Google Japan offers a reminder that it could always be worse, unveiling a rotary keyboard concept
News Dial 'G' for 'Gaming'.
Dial up is dead—at least as far as AOL is concerned, as the company is pulling the plug after 34 years
News But that doesn't mean US broadband infrastructure is necessarily picking up the slack.
Nonprofit turned investment magnet OpenAI is now valued at $500 billion
News But is AI a bubble that's about to burst?
Private collector's GPU horde tours through 30 years of Nvidia and AMD hardware history
News Almost all the flagship models are here.
Asus is finally bringing RTX 5080 card themed around everyone's favourite Vocaloid songstress to the US—but there's a steep Miku tax
News HOW MUCH?
Apparently the most popular clip on OpenAI's new AI video app Sora depicts Sam Altman stealing graphics cards
News And that's why I wear a brown paper bag on my head at all times.
OpenAI's new video generation tool Sora 2 is here, but don't worry, Sam Altman says it will avoid the 'degenerate case of AI video generation that ends up with us all being sucked into an RL-optimized slop feed'
News I do not need another social app, much less one that revolves around AI-generated video.
The gamers have done it again, this time building a functional ChatGPT in Minecraft—but before you get too excited, it takes literally hours to provide a response
News Block by block.
Fancy some unorthodox, techy ASMR? Try the soothing sound of 12 dial-up modems all trying to connect to the internet at once
News More calming than ocean waves or white noise, I tell ya.
Saved you a click: The latest Windows 11 24H2 Insider preview build offers internet speed check right from the taskbar
News Testing patience.
