Welcome to our first pass at a list of the best monitors; progress has been held up by the inability to work in our testing lab, among other pandemic-related reasons, but as it drags on we’re getting there. Slowly. But we’ve got at least a small list of choices that we’re confident about suggesting, with …

As the PS5 and Xbox Series X near their one-year anniversaries, competition between the console kings remains fierce. While the base hardware remains the same (aside from internal cooling tweaks in some new PS5 units), new software updates have added features, like more storage options and expanded cloud gaming access.  That’s of little comfort to the scores of gamers who …

This story is part of Tech for a Better World, stories about the diverse teams creating products, apps and services to improve our lives and society. Microsoft broke welcome ground when it launched its Xbox Adaptive Controller, the hub of an ecosystem designed for gamers who can’t use a standard game controller to customize their input device to the nth …

Microsoft announced the Surface Slim Pen 2 on Wednesday, a stylus with a haptic twist in conjunction with its updated Surface device line. (Many of the updated Surface products will ship beginning Oct. 5.) For $130 (£120, AU$190), it can charge wirelessly via magnetic attachment to your supporting device, a la the Apple Pencil 2 (which has a single flat side for …

Laptop designs have changed significantly since Microsoft debuted its Surface Book, a laptop with a tablet that detached from a keyboard base with discrete graphics for more power. It awkwardly straddled the two-in-one (with displays that rotate around 360 degrees, like the HP Spectre x360) and detachable (where the keyboard snaps onto the tablet, as with the Surface Pro 8) categories. …

Microsoft is holding its annual Surface announcement event on Wednesday, Sept. 22, and you can follow along with our live coverage of the Microsoft event, which starts at Sept. 22 at 8 a.m. PT (11 a.m. ET). We could see the new Surface Duo 2, Surface Pro 8, Surface Go 3 and more. Read more: Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio is all about the …

It’s been four years since HP upgraded its 34-inch Envy AIO, one of the few all-in-one PCs I’ve really liked over the years. The company released a 32-inch model in 2020 that was solid, but because of the usual cram-it-into-the-display design, like most AIOs it incorporated low-power mobile components. This newest incarnation of the PC looks like a pretty nice …

Following Asus’ launch in early September of its 4K UHD ProArt Display OLED PA32DC, it looks like LG might be using the same panel for its new 4K UltraFine OLED Pro (32EP950-B), given that it has very similar specs. LG’s is DisplayHDR 400 True Black-certified (it’s not clear if Asus’ is) and supports hardware calibration profiles, though it doesn’t have …

During its Create the Uncreated fall product reveal on Thursday, Asus launched a host of notable new products and technologies, along with the usual refreshes. Headlining the announcements: the first 32-inch OLED monitor, the Asus Dial secondary input integrated into its StudioBook line of pro creator laptops and the virtual Asus DialPad on the touchpad of its new Vivobook Pro …

Samsung’s recent generation of its Galaxy Book family tackles Apple head on, right down to the attempt to get its Galaxy phones to integrate with Windows and the rest of its products as deeply as Apple’s iOS devices integrate with each other. So it’s no surprise that Samsung’s new thin-and-light clamshell Galaxy Book Pro laptop bears some resemblance to its …