Jess Kinghorn

Jess Kinghorn

Hardware Writer

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

The ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Edition 20 is seen mounted on the open-frame ROG GR20 PC case on the showfloor of Computex 2026.
As if ROG Astral 50-series graphics cards could get any beefier, Asus has just announced a CHONKY anniversary update

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Computex 2026 Funky and chunky, larger than life.

Computex 2026
The NT-CP1 AM5/4, a cooling pad made by Carbice, is seen applied to a CPU as an alternative to thermal paste.
Noctua aims to effectively banish thermal paste horror stories and gooped-up CPU sockets

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Computex 2026 Keeping your cool.

Computex 2026
A marketing image featuring the MEG Vision X2 AI⁺ gaming desktop. MSI's agentic AI LuckClaw is featured inside the cylindrical AI holostage built into the PC's chassis.
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.

Computex 2026
Lisa Su giving MIT's class of 2026 commencement address.
AMD chief Dr. Lisa Su tells MIT graduates, 'Technology itself does not decide what the future looks like. People do'

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News "[AI] cannot make the hard judgment calls with imperfect information. It cannot take responsibility for the outcome."

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Singapore - July 28, 2025: Exterior view of ByteDance's Singapore office at One Raffles Quay. ByteDance is a Chinese multinational internet technology company.
ByteDance has had enough of waiting months for processors, so it's going to make them itself

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News 'No AMD or Intel makes ByteDance go something, something.'

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US $1 dollar bill in mid-air melting, red gradated background.
A Google engineer who allegedly made over $1,000,000 after predicting 2025's most-searched person has now been arrested for insider trading

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News Neither crime nor gambling pays out.

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The Samsung Electronics labour union stage a mass rally demanding the removal of a cap on performance bonuses, outside the company's foundry and semiconductor factory in Pyeongtaek on April 23, 2026.
Samsung workers to take home $340,000 on average thanks to union's vote to approve historic profit-share deal

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News Memory makes much money, mate.

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CHINA - 2025/03/19: In this photo illustration, A woman browses DuckDuckGo website on her laptop.
DuckDuckGo's AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week following Google's insistence that people love AI mode

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News "People just want a choice."

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the left, and an Nvidia building sign on the right.
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'

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News In it for the long haul?

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A person touches a capacative, hologram fan display to skip between music tracks.
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.

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Cosplayer and hardware creator Zibartas models hand-made Cyberpunk 2077 bomber jacket. The garment features a tall standing collar with flexible OLED screens housed inside it.
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.

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Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first Encyclical Letter "Magnifica Humanitas" focused on the rise of artificial intelligence, in The Vatican on May 25, 2026.
'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.

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Two hands cradle a tiny epaper device. The shape of a fortune cookie is engraved into the device's 3D printed PLA housing.
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.

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Orchestra conductor watching AI robot conduct music notes on beige background - stock illustration
'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

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News I'm not really feeling this beat.

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Nvidia data center
Nvidia continues to make astronomical amounts of money from AI, with the first quarter of 2026 being its biggest to date

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News They still make GPUs too, ya know.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang introduces Vera Rubin, a next-generation AI data center platform, and Rubin Ultra, a next-generation AI GPU architecture, during the keynote address at GTC 2026.
'Every single frontier model company will jump on Vera Rubin from the get go': Nvidia CEO insists the future looks bright

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News "It will surely be more successful than even Grace Blackwell."

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Windows 11 displayed on a laptop, keyboard and pen resting on the keyboard. Overlaid on top of this image is a photo illustration of a hacker, code pouring out from beneath the brim of their hood.
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.

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The Github Logo on a phone in front of the words "Let's build from here"
Devs, be careful what you plug in: GitHub security breach was apparently facilitated by a 'poisoned Visual Studio Code extension'

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News A full incident report is on the way.

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Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, speaks during the 'Google for Korea 2026' event at the Westin Josun Seoul in Seoul, South Korea, on April 29, 2026.
'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

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News He also says there's 'something missing' from AI game development.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai is seen smiling on the left hand panel of this image. On the right hand panel is a photo illustration of some one using Google Gemini on their phone.
'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.

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Windows 11 operating system logo is displayed on a laptop screen for illustration photo. Gliwice, Poland on January 23, 2022.
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.

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Discord logo displayed on a phone screen and Discord website displayed on a screen in the background are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on November 5, 2022.
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."

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Microsoft continues to build towards a passwordless future by phasing out an authentication method that's become 'a leading source of fraud'

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News Bad news for forgetful folks like me.

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Man's hand holding Sony Dualshock wireless controller while playing Gran Turismo 5 on PlayStation 3.
'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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An image of a fake Bitcoin with a laptop in the background displaying financial data
'The company’s current business model is unsustainable': CEO of Bitcoin ATM operator blames increasing regulation for bankruptcy

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News "Operators have faced increasing litigation and regulatory enforcement."

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