Katie Wickens
Screw sports, Katie would rather watch Intel, AMD and Nvidia go at it. Having been obsessed with computers and graphics for three long decades, she took Game Art and Design up to Masters level at uni, and has been rambling about games, tech and science—rather sarcastically—for four years since. She can be found admiring technological advancements, scrambling for scintillating Raspberry Pi projects, preaching cybersecurity awareness, sighing over semiconductors, and gawping at the latest GPU upgrades. Right now she's waiting patiently for her chance to upload her consciousness into the cloud.
Latest articles by Katie Wickens
Cities: Skylines 2 is getting the science of hailstorms all wrong
By Katie Wickens published
Hail and well met My icy heart calls for more scientific accuracy!
Chirper might actually be useful for keeping track of your citizens' 'Lifepaths' in Cities: Skylines 2
By Katie Wickens published
NEWS Stalk your Cims with the new Lifepath Journal feature.
Deep sea deception game Underlab is Among Us but with flamethrowers
By Katie Wickens published
News From the developers of Project Winter comes a multiplayer tale of underwater tomfoolery.
David Gaider says Baldur's Gate 3 is a 'monumental achievement'
By Katie Wickens published
News Though, of course the game isn't without issue.
An RTX 4070-powered gaming laptop for less than most with an RTX 4060
By Katie Wickens published
deal The M in MSI stands for mmmm tasty gaming laptop.
The price of graphics cards really hammers home my biggest issue with transhumanism
By Katie Wickens published
Ideal prices? We don't just need better gaming PCs, we're working towards better versions of ourselves—for a price.
'Unpatchable' vulnerability in Tesla's AMD chips allows free access to the cars' paywalled features
By Katie Wickens published
news A flaw on the AMD chip means penny-pinching Teslas can indeed be jailbroken.
Opera GX assumes you're dead after 14 days 'or using a different browser. In that case, you'll just be dead to us'
By Katie Wickens published
news Goodnight, sweet prince. Fear not, your internet history will be forgotten.
Hundreds sign up to ponder OpenAI founder's eye-scanning crypto orb despite data concerns
By Katie Wickens published
news Who knew the processing of "sensitive data at a very large scale" might require a licence?
Microsoft accused of 'negligent cybersecurity practices' that 'enabled Chinese espionage against the US government'
By Katie Wickens published
news Tenable CEO says bank details are still exposed due to a Microsoft Azure platform security issue, with no fix expected until September.
Someone's designing a gorgeous CPU cooling water block that lets you completely hide the tubes
By Katie Wickens published
news ModdingCafe's design is an elegant solution for a more civilised age.
Stop what you're doing and revel in the heavy chiptune virtuosity that is Master Boot Record
By Katie Wickens published
news Dark academia meets djent in the thick, fuzzy air of an '80s arcade.
The best gaming laptop form factor gets another player in the Legion
By Katie Wickens published
news Lenovo's about to rock up with a smol 14-inch RTX 4060-powered portable baby, and we're here for it.
GameStop drops cryptocurrency wallet support due to the 'regulatory uncertainty of the crypto space'
By Katie Wickens published
news The store is backing away from crypto, surprise surprise.
AMD fixes RX 7900 XTX crashes in Ratchet and Clank with ray tracing enabled
By Katie Wickens last updated
news A specific new Ratchet and Clank AMD driver is out now.
It only takes 32 AMD GPUs and 33 hours to run a 40 billion cell simulation of the Concorde supersonic plane
By Katie Wickens published
news That AMD-powered GigaIO SuperNODE server really slaps.
Lenovo reportedly reviving plans for a handheld PC after ditching the Android-based Legion Play
By Katie Wickens published
news That's potentially another AMD Phoenix-powered gaming handheld on the horizon.
NES inspired mechanical keyboards with massive matching A and B buttons are a vibe
By Katie Wickens published
news Old school Nintendo meets modern PC gaming.
Student startup develops IRL closed caption glasses for deaf people
By Katie Wickens published
news Just another nifty way AR is helping reduce that isolated feeling.
Water soluble circuit boards are an e-waste game changer
By Katie Wickens published
news Bear witness to the world’s first fully recyclable commercialised PCB substrate that will dissolve in a bath of hot water.
Minecraft exploit makes it 'completely dangerous' to play with unpatched mods right now
By Katie Wickens published
news Exploit leaves users on countless servers open to remote code execution attacks.
Micron's laying the ground work for 1TB DDR5 memory modules
By Katie Wickens published
news As the company prepares for mass production of 32Gb DDR5 memory chips, there's certainly scope for higher capacity modules.
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