The teardown crew noted that Samsung faced a clear challenge trying to safeguard the screen. It could protect some of the obvious entry points for debris that caused so much chaos in April, such as covering a gap in the bezel and plastering the hinges with tape, but there was only so much it could…

Intel didn't mention gaming performance increases, as the chips are aimed more at creators and researchers, but gamers can probably expect a similarly modest gain. Other new features include 72 PCIe 3.0 lanes, WiFi 6 support and faster ethernet. Unlike AMD, Intel doesn't plan to support PCIe 4.0 this year, despite the potential for incredible…

Good day and welcome to this Monday's edition of The Monitor, WIRED's pop-culture news roundup. So, what's the haps? Welp, Joker just grinned his way to a huge opening weekend at the box office. Also, there are a lot of new trailers to watch. Here. We. Go!Joker Made $96 Million at the Box OfficeIn an…

In November 2017, a Reddit account called deepfakes posted pornographic clips made with software that pasted the faces of Hollywood actresses over those of the real performers. Nearly two years later, deepfake is a generic noun for video manipulated or fabricated with artificial intelligence software. The technique has drawn laughs on YouTube, along with concern…

With just a few months until the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and a couple of weeks until the debut of The Mandalorian on Disney+, there has clearly been an awakening in the Force. Have you felt it? Even Marvel boss Kevin Feige is getting in on the action and working on…

This story originally appeared on Slate and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Travel is terrible for the environment, particularly if it is by plane. It’s such “a major contributor to ecocide” that it had one travel writer vowing in The Atlantic to “cherish my own home turf more.” As concern about climate change reaches…

This summer, Dishcraft released a new dishwashing robot. It’s only the latest invention that we’ll use in a way that threatens what I’m calling “on-ramp” jobs.I loved being a dishwasher. Every summer for a few years in high school, I’d get up at 7 and walk half a mile from my house to a small…

In chapter 27 of Movies (and Other Things), Shea Serrano's film genius becomes crystal clear. Though titled "Which race was white-saviored the best by Kevin Costner?" Serrano quickly dispatches with that question (Mexicans, McFarland USA) and uses the rest of the space to share a series of movie lists. He ranks, swiftly and confidently, the…

In June, Facebook revealed plans for Libra, a cryptocurrency it hopes will shake up the global payments industry. Facebook says it won’t control Libra, and that key decisions will be in the hands of the Libra Association, a group registered in Switzerland with as many as 100 members, each with equal voting power.“No single organization…

Chris Moody knows a thing or two about the universe. As an astrophysicist, he built galaxy simulations, using supercomputers to model the way the universe expands and how galaxies crash into one another. One night, not long after he’d finished his PhD at UC Santa Cruz, he met up with a few other astrophysicists for…