My expert advice on what computer monitor to buy for your home office, ranging from budget-tier to fully featured. Most people never think about the monitor they use. If you work from home as I do, your monitor is your window into your trade, whether that's scrolling through endless spreadsheets or color grading short films. Different work has different needs, and finding the monitor that suits your specific use case can be tricky with all the options out there. But with over a decade of testing and reviewing monitors under my belt, here are my recommendations on what you should buy today. For more information, check out our guide to How to Choose a Monitor, as well as our recommendations for Best Gaming Monitors, Best Portable Monitors, and Best Cheap Monitors . What Monitor Size Is Best? What Should You Look for in a Monitor? What Do You Need to Set Up Your Monitor? How Does WIRED Test Monitors? Can You Use a TV As a Monitor?

The Mac Mini is a fantastic little computer, but you'll need one of these great monitors to complete the setup. The Mac Mini is unbeatable in value . But unlike an iMac or MacBook, you'll need to pair it with a monitor. Apple has a couple of options: the Apple Studio Display and Pro Display XDR, but both are incredibly expensive (not to mention a few years old at this point). Fortunately, there are tons of great monitors out there that fit well into the Apple ecosystem. Be sure to check our Best Apple Desktops, Best MacBooks, Best Monitors, and Best Gaming Monitors guides for more.

Dell's excellent 4K monitor is a perfect second screen for working from home. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. If you're tired of staring a tiny laptop screen while working from home, consider scooping up our favorite desktop monitor for almost 25 percent off its normal price. The Dell 27 Plus 4K (8/10, WIRED Reivew) is currently marked down to just $228 on Amazon, the lowest we've seen yet for this smart and practical 4K screen.

Since the 2013 Target breach, it's been clear that companies need to respond better to security alerts even as volumes have gone up. With this year's fast-spreading ransomware attacks and ever-tightening compliance requirements, response must be much faster. Adding staff is tough with the cybersecurity hiring crunch, so companies are turning to machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to automate tasks and better detect bad behavior. In a cybersecurity context, AI is software that perceives its environment well enough to identify events and take action against a predefined purpose. AI is particularly good at recognizing patterns and anomalies within them, which makes it an excellent tool to detect threats.

At an off-site support building two miles from NewYork-Presbyterian's Weill Cornell Medical Center, registered nurses use artificial intelligence to monitor what's happening at the hospital. The space houses various remote administrative stations, including clinical monitoring setups that have computers and six screens from which nurses track real-time physiologic data of patients in the emergency department. RNs also check activity through smart-bed technology, keeps tabs on temperatures of refrigerators that house life-saving medicine, and facilitate call center functions. NewYork-Presbyterian dubbed this AI-infused shop the Clinical Operations Center, or CLOC, and the goal is to leverage artificial intelligence in a 100 percent capacity within the next 12-14 months. CLOC is already is showing the benefits of incorporating artificial intelligence into daily clinical monitoring of patient care in ways that other hospitals can learn from.

Your phone can reveal all of your physical activities to Google and the apps you use. The sensors inside it can monitor, understand and disclose your real-world movements, based on what's happening to the phone itself. It can tell, for instance, if you're standing up, or if you've just lifted your phone off a desk, or if you've started walking. An Android permission called "Activity Recognition", which was discussed on Reddit and highlighted by DuckDuckGo last week, makes it much easier for developers to work out what you're doing at any one time. Shazam and SoundHound request the permission, but it isn't completely clear why.

More than 50 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders, and diseases including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's can also disrupt sleep. To make it easier to diagnose and study sleep problems, researchers at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have devised a new way to monitor sleep stages without sensors attached to the body. Their device uses an advanced artificial intelligence algorithm to analyze the radio signals around the person and translate those measurements into sleep stages: light, deep, or rapid eye movement (REM). Recent advances in artificial intelligence have made it possible to train computer algorithms known as deep neural networks to extract and analyze information from complex datasets, such as the radio signals obtained from the researchers' sensor.

On Monday, Intel announced that it will purchase Movidius, an Irish company that develops computer vision processors. With newly acquired chips and deep learning algorithms, Intel will be able to imbue its RealSense cameras with independent, low-power image processing. In simpler terms, the company could build drones and other devices that can "see" on their own – no human required. At the most basic level, the biological eye is used to gather information and make decisions. Using camera "eyes," computers can also extract complex understanding from visual data.

Whether they are assisting your doctor in surgery, driving your car, analyzing crime patterns, or cleaning and providing the security system for your home, artificial intelligence (AI) will play a big role in urban living in by 2030. But to maximize the benefits of an AI-wired city tomorrow, expert and the public need to have a frank conversation today, according to the first report from Stanford University's 100-year study on AI, which was released last week. "As a society, we are now at a crucial juncture in determining how to deploy AI-based technologies in ways that promote, not hinder, democratic values such as freedom, equality, and transparency," the panel states in its report, which analyzes the role AI will play in the typical North American city in 2030, focusing on eight domains: transportation, home robots, healthcare, education, entertainment, low-resource communities, public safety and security, and employment and the workplace. "Policies should be evaluated as to whether they foster democratic values and equitable sharing of AI's benefits, or concentrate power and benefits in the hands of a fortunate few." The report outlines not only the ways AI could potentially be used throughout everyday life, but also how public opinion surrounding the implementation of AI has changed, and will continue to.

Two bird species, the Barbados bullfinch and the Carib grackle, have passed the string-pulling test, joining an elite group of animals capable of completing one of the most challenging animal cognition tests. The goal of the research, which was led by Jean-Nicolas Audet, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biology at McGill University in Canada, is to determine the origin of innovative behavior in birds. Throughout the study, which was published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, two of the 31 grackles and 18 of the 42 bullfinches were able to complete the string-pulling task, but what was surprising about their finding was lack of correlation between this and other cognitive tasks. "Most people previously assumed that string-pulling was just a problem-solving task and that the performance on both should be correlated. Some people even think that performance on all behavioral tasks should be correlated to some extent," Mr. Audet tells The Christian Science Monitor in an email.