
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 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.

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.

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.

In-development vibrating VR glove wants you to be able to give your anime favorite all the head pats she could ever want
By Jess Kinghorn published
News One does not, in fact, have to hand it to them though.

Microsoft study suggests folks can't spot the difference between real and AI-generated images, only correctly telling them apart 62% of the time—can you do any better?
By Jess Kinghorn last updated
News It's too early in the week for my sense of reality to be challenged like this.

New body scanning Wi-Fi tech has me seriously considering ditching my corporeal form in favour of joining the rogue AIs on the net
By Jess Kinghorn published
News But going full Cyberpunk 2077 may be a touch premature.

Bad vibes only: A zero-day flaw in popular sex toy app Lovense can leak usernames, email addresses, and other, err, intimate details
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The call is coming from inside the sock drawer.

She's unreal: Fashion ad seen in Vogue stokes controversy by featuring AI-generated model, but the creators say 'we don't create unattainable looks'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Head-turning for all the wrong reasons.

SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3X wireless gaming headset review
By Jess Kinghorn published
Score: 85% A crown in lavender.

I've just crowned these Beyerdynamic headphones as the best audiophile closed-back cans, although it's a shame about the lack of microphone
By Jess Kinghorn published
Closed cans Where's your head (and mic) at?

Razer Clio wireless gaming chair speaker review
By Jess Kinghorn published
Score: 67% Head and shoulders above the competition? Eh, not so much.

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