Latest articles by Katie Wickens
Any app that makes 'create desktop shortcut' the default option is going straight in my recycle bin
Deskflop Here's how to stop rogue icons from haunting your home screen.
The 'miserable experience' of iFixit's new MacBook Air teardown has me yearning for the hot-swappable future of gaming laptops
news Right to repair? Eh, kinda. Roll on Framework's modular gaming laptops.
Millions of perfectly fine HDDs are shredded each year because of 'zero risk' security policies. Spoiler alert: There's still a risk of stolen data from just a 3mm scrap
news There are better, safer, greener ways to deal with old hard drives.
Our favorite RTX 4080-powered monster laptop for $2,300? Yes, I think I will
deal Nvidia RTX 4080 | Intel Core i9 13900HX | 16-inch | 1600p | 240Hz | 32GB DDR5-5600 | 1TB SSD | $2,299
Twitter founder warns that we're heading toward a VR-obsessed future of humans in 'floating chairs, drinking their food out of straws'
news From Wall-E to Snow Crash, Jack Dorsey has some rather dystopian visions of a future fuelled by VR.
The US won't force the world's biggest chipmakers to back out of China even if it apparently makes them 'look very weak'
news The Biden administration plans to keep trade export-control policy restrictions loose for top semiconductor manufacturers.
Zephyr's new RTX 3060 shows off its sensitive side as the first ever graphics card with a pink PCB
news It so delicate and adorable, but it's not available in the US.
7,178 subreddits and counting have gone dark today in protest of a 3rd-party app pricing calamity
news Reddark is upon us, with a combined user count of two-and-a-half billion.
Iran's 'quantum processor' turned out to be a $600 dev board
news The internet has wholly debunked claims over the so-called 'first product of the quantum processing algorithm.'
Zuck points out that every Apple Vision Pro VR demo 'was a person sitting on a couch by themself'
news Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerburg, makes it clear that 'There’s a real philosophical difference' in how his company approaches VR.
Building D&D settings is so much less stressful with these brilliantly clever tabletop games
Godlike From city builders and culture propagators, to timeline generators, there's a wealth of worldbuilding games to help you flesh out your D&D homebrew campaign worlds.
Windows 11's Teams Chat bloatware will soon no longer taunt me with its very existence
news It should be possible to kill Microsoft Teams Chat altogether in the near future, not just toggle it off.
Flash drives often end up as e-waste but this eco-friendly one might alleviate some of the guilt
news TeamGroup's new flash drive gives us a net-zero option when it comes to USB storage.
Hubcaps for PCs are a thing now
news MSI is bringing the racing style to its PC cooling solutions now, too.
I'm practically drowning in matcha green thanks to the pastel PC case trend at Computex
news The Computex show floor was littered with non black/white PC parts. Here's why the pastel look (green tea in particular) is starting to come alive.
Computex 2023: all the biggest stories from the Taiwan tech show
Computex 2023 We're on the ground out in Taipei to give you the lowdown on the biggest show in PC hardware.
Fractal Design's gorgeous new Terra PC case vindicates my disdain of the cyberpunk aesthetic
News More PC cases should be designed with the Scandi aesthetic in mind, if you ask me.
Yeah, I spent my time at Computex stroking a $600 DIY Ducky keyboard, what of it?
News The Ducky ProjectD Outlaw is made with some seriously high-end materials, just like a Mercedes Benz. Apparently.
I didn't know I need a gaming chair with a wiggly backrest but now I've tried it, it makes so much sense
news Having experienced the wonders of the ThunderX3 Core's Lumbar 360 backrest, I'm questioning why it's taken this long to invent
Hyte has officially won my best name of Computex prize with the THICC AIO cooler
news The thickest cooling solution known to man also has it's own processor.
Apparently PC building is about slapping 'brains' on all your components now
news Corsair and Hyte's upcoming modular control systems are a cable management dream.
Nvidia's massive AI GPU has enough memory to make a gamer weep and even Jensen Huang's wondering 'if this could play Crysis?'
news Combined into its final form, the encompassing DGX GH200 superserver is "four elephants, one GPU."
When it comes to white PC components, the sun is both your friend and your enemy
Yellow no no Discolouration of white gaming gear depends on the material, coating, and manufacturing process. Here's what's being done to prevent it.
