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
![Nvidia RTX 3070 Founders Edition](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/uAZXhpvAcF8a5eff5meqUa-320-80.jpg)
This is awkward: some aerospace company just rebranded as RTX
By Katie Wickens published
news Jensen Huang might have something to say about this.
![A gaming PC.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fB3Dcwiz9WHdB9uyQ6oAfW-320-80.jpg)
Any app that makes 'create desktop shortcut' the default option is going straight in my recycle bin
By Katie Wickens published
Deskflop Here's how to stop rogue icons from haunting your home screen.
![MacBook Air beign taken apart.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2x6kXdtZk9VMufEqdrUJze-320-80.jpg)
The 'miserable experience' of iFixit's new MacBook Air teardown has me yearning for the hot-swappable future of gaming laptops
By Katie Wickens published
news Right to repair? Eh, kinda. Roll on Framework's modular gaming laptops.
![Hard Drive](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7bJdirr2VBQaMrkv3C58rU-320-80.jpg)
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
By Katie Wickens published
news There are better, safer, greener ways to deal with old hard drives.
![Lenovo Legion 7i gaming laptop.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JuaihqnrYousHcv4KTuCi3-320-80.png)
Our favorite RTX 4080-powered monster laptop for $2,300? Yes, I think I will
By Katie Wickens published
deal Nvidia RTX 4080 | Intel Core i9 13900HX | 16-inch | 1600p | 240Hz | 32GB DDR5-5600 | 1TB SSD | $2,299
![Wall-e tries to communicate with people but they wont even look at him.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kRmY98xDi5MpHMkNHw5h55-320-80.jpg)
Twitter founder warns that we're heading toward a VR-obsessed future of humans in 'floating chairs, drinking their food out of straws'
By Katie Wickens published
news From Wall-E to Snow Crash, Jack Dorsey has some rather dystopian visions of a future fuelled by VR.
![TSMC's Fab 16, Shenzen, China](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/b4j5odtAb23QRPwvWtXGrM-320-80.jpg)
The US won't force the world's biggest chipmakers to back out of China even if it apparently makes them 'look very weak'
By Katie Wickens published
news The Biden administration plans to keep trade export-control policy restrictions loose for top semiconductor manufacturers.
![The Sakura & Snow GeForce RTX 3060](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UsDg3djrz42reeLJ26bwXJ-320-80.jpg)
Zephyr's new RTX 3060 shows off its sensitive side as the first ever graphics card with a pink PCB
By Katie Wickens published
news It so delicate and adorable, but it's not available in the US.
![Reddit logo on mobile phone](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/shQqzKfjLBes29rofWboVA-320-80.jpg)
7,178 subreddits and counting have gone dark today in protest of a 3rd-party app pricing calamity
By Katie Wickens last updated
news Reddark is upon us, with a combined user count of two-and-a-half billion.
![Iran's Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari holding the Zedboard "quantum processor"](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8iPJnWmyBkzFyQ9gM9DmRn-320-80.jpg)
Iran's 'quantum processor' turned out to be a $600 dev board
By Katie Wickens published
news The internet has wholly debunked claims over the so-called 'first product of the quantum processing algorithm.'
![mark zuckerburg addressing the camera, blued](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kxLjqsDMrmgkBmtKR5vh4o-320-80.jpg)
Zuck points out that every Apple Vision Pro VR demo 'was a person sitting on a couch by themself'
By Katie Wickens published
news Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerburg, makes it clear that 'There’s a real philosophical difference' in how his company approaches VR.
![The Corsair TC100 Relaxed headrest](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9LoZx5MJSRwqmpejjs8TV3-320-80.jpg)
Corsair TC100 Relaxed gaming chair review
By Katie Wickens published
Chill A relaxed gaming chair at a very relaxed price.
![Fantasy map design, worldbuilding in map form.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HCWxwZKCJ2uGwJp3AVLicH-320-80.jpg)
Building D&D settings is so much less stressful with these brilliantly clever tabletop games
By Katie Wickens published
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 Microsoft Teams Chat feature](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/AnqPNxRUyhLj9hwRhzEFSC-320-80.jpg)
Windows 11's Teams Chat bloatware will soon no longer taunt me with its very existence
By Katie Wickens published
news It should be possible to kill Microsoft Teams Chat altogether in the near future, not just toggle it off.
![The Team Group C175 ECO Flash Drive in hand with leaves surrounding it.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/STT24HnTmTYK2RXt7CsjF9-320-80.jpg)
Flash drives often end up as e-waste but this eco-friendly one might alleviate some of the guilt
By Katie Wickens published
news TeamGroup's new flash drive gives us a net-zero option when it comes to USB storage.
![MSI's Suprim fan magnetic hubcaps.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gWodVko4AZC8GirYGMWeu8-320-80.jpg)
Hubcaps for PCs are a thing now
By Katie Wickens published
news MSI is bringing the racing style to its PC cooling solutions now, too.
![Some examples of matcha green PC cases.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cuUApfBPnfc2nSsoxgSyCH-320-80.jpg)
I'm practically drowning in matcha green thanks to the pastel PC case trend at Computex
By Katie Wickens published
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](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WxUouZs5DcB547mMhiq2eH-320-80.jpg)
Computex 2023: all the biggest stories from the Taiwan tech show
By Dave James last updated
Computex 2023 We're on the ground out in Taipei to give you the lowdown on the biggest show in PC hardware.
![InWins POC in all new purple and pink with liquid cooling support.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/BcMQteDC2hn2menePmwP43-320-80.jpg)
Oh heck yeah, these gaudy origami PC cases now come with water cooling support
By Katie Wickens published
news InWin's latest foldable Mini-ITX PC case has support for a 120mm liquid cooling radiator.
![Fractal Design Terra PC case](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gP9oNdvBWJDYjGPcMwnqbW-320-80.jpg)
Fractal Design's gorgeous new Terra PC case vindicates my disdain of the cyberpunk aesthetic
By Katie Wickens published
News More PC cases should be designed with the Scandi aesthetic in mind, if you ask me.
![The Ducky ProjectD outlaw in blue and pink](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XisGxKbCw4MRoKgrmg8BPo-320-80.jpg)
Yeah, I spent my time at Computex stroking a $600 DIY Ducky keyboard, what of it?
By Katie Wickens published
News The Ducky ProjectD Outlaw is made with some seriously high-end materials, just like a Mercedes Benz. Apparently.
![The ThunderX3 core gaming chair range.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/YRdabQeKTnz8a9pyGKXkYf-320-80.jpg)
I didn't know I need a gaming chair with a wiggly backrest but now I've tried it, it makes so much sense
By Katie Wickens published
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 THICC Q60 cooler](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LXFC4wsWifAKinoVqdAWnY-320-80.jpg)
Hyte has officially won my best name of Computex prize with the THICC AIO cooler
By Katie Wickens published
news The thickest cooling solution known to man also has it's own processor.
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