What you're looking at here is not an OLED but a complicated dual panel LCD monitor. It has a 4K outer panel with a monochrome inner panel that modulates an LED backlight. The system, which is made up of multiple optical sheets and layers, can dim the picture at the pixel level, the kind of…

The StudioBook One is part of ASUS' massively-expanded line of ProArt laptops, designed for "creative professionals." The company, like many, is trying to steal a slice of Apple's MacBook Pro pie now that the laptops have been beset by gripes around its performance, battery life and keyboard. Most notably, ASUS has crammed NVIDIA's headline-grabbing pro…

I'm going to be honest. These days I play most of my games the same way I read a good paperback: Curled up on the couch, in bed, or waiting for a train. That's why I game almost exclusively on my laptop or my Nintendo Switch. They're great for everyday gaming, but sometimes I get…

If you're at all concerned about the privacy of your data, you don't want to leave the default settings in place on your devices—and that includes anything that runs Windows 10.Microsoft's operating system comes with a variety of controls and options you can modify to lock down the use of your data, from the information…

At WIRED's Gadget Lab, we're battening down the hatches in preparation for all the September launches—whether that's a slew of consumer electronics launches out of IFA 2019, or eagerly awaiting the announcement of new Apple phones, watches, and iPads next week. But don't worry: We still had plenty of time to scour the web for…

India has lost contact with its Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram, which was scheduled to land near the lunar south pole on Friday. The landing proceeded as expected until the final braking phase, at which point the lander began to deviate from its expected trajectory. When Vikram was 2 kilometers above the lunar surface, the Indian Space…

Late last Thursday, Google security researchers dropped a bombshell: Someone had launched a sustained attack against iPhone users that compromised their devices almost instantly when they visited certain websites. The campaign forced a fundamental shift in how security professionals think about iOS. And now, after a week of silence, Apple has finally given its side…

When Apple’s annual fall hardware event takes place next week, it will come amid an important shift for the company. Sales of the iPhone, the device that has made the company hundreds of billions of dollars over the past decade, have slowed. Jony Ive, the legendary designer responsible for the look and feel of all…

As you may well have seen by now, actor and aspiring singer Jeremy Renner pulled the plug on his app this week, inviting such questions as: Why does Jeremy Renner have an app? And how could it have gone so wrong that he described it, in his final post there, as "a place that is…

Is capital moral or amoral? In the predominant view held in Silicon Valley today, capital is amoral — cash is cash, and regardless of where it comes from, once it…