Be sad, fellow geeks, for we are witnessing the slow death of a staunch companion. Between the proliferation of Retina displays, ultrahigh-resolution smartphone screens, überexpensive 4K televisions, ...

A defective pixel on an LCD screen. Bad pixels are often transistors that are permanently dead and appear as black dots or permanently energized and show up as white or colored dots ("hot pixels").

There may come a time when you feel the need to test whether the LCD display on your computer monitor is working fine. You may believe that the little dot is a dead pixel, so how do you make sure?

PORTLAND, Ore.PORTLAND, Ore. — Russell Kirsch, a computer scientist credited with inventing the pixel and scanning the world’s first digital photograph, died Aug. 11 at his home in Portland, Oregon, ...

Nintendo says dead pixels on the Switch are normal. Since the Nintendo Switch launched, there have been reports of hardware issues and defects relating to the Joy-Cons, the the design of the dock, and ...

FILE - In this 2007 file photo ,Russell Kirsch holds the image of his son, Walden, that was scanned into the world's first digital scanner in 1957. Russell Kirsch, a computer scientist credited with ...