My Children’s Favorite tablet is a good flat rock. Get the right one and it’ll do everything from launching toy cars to hop-skip-jumping its way across a pond.  Of course, as a WIRED reviewer, there are also plenty of digital tablets in my house, and they’re pretty popular at... Read more

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Deep reinforcement learning is one of the most interesting branches of artificial intelligence. It is behind some of the most remarkable achievements of the AI community, including beating human champions at board and video games,... Read more

The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Sony The record-breaking Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer finally revealed some of what we can expect from the much-anticipated third Tom Holland Spider-Man movie this Christmas.  And it turns out what we can expect is a host of Spider-Man villains taking their first steps into... Read more

When Apple announced in August that it would check for child sexual abuse materials on its customers’ devices, privacy advocates and cryptographers immediately and loudly rejected the idea. In the face of that sustained backlash, the company said Friday that it would stand down, at least for now. While... Read more

A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene made news this week as he left Krafton, the company that published his tremendously successful PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) battle royale game, and he started a new studio in Amsterdam called PlayerUnknown Productions,... Read more

NFT art could be a new way to spend and make money. Getty Images Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, are a new kind of collectible that could — or could not — earn you big bucks. NFTs began in 2017 and became the new craze faster than any other cryptocurrency you... Read more

I’m an attentive listener, but sometimes I zone out. However, machines are indefatigable listeners. My gig work has made me cognizant of that. Here’s an example. On December 25, 2020, I drove to pick up a woman and her mother. When passengers request Lyft rides, they can drag the... Read more

Apple’s iPhone line used to be simple. When the original iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs over 14 years ago, it was just one phone, and exclusively available on AT&T. The difficult part of choosing an iPhone in 2007 was working up the courage to buy a phone from a... Read more

There are many iconic guitar brands, but I still recommend a Fender as a first guitar. It’s not just because Hendrix, Clapton, and Buddy Guy all played Fenders; it’s because a Mexican-made Fender or Korean-made Fender Squier is affordable, sounds great, and holds its value. If you buy a... Read more