The next iPhone may not have physical buttons. Sarah Tew/CNET Rumor has it that a future iPhone (iPhone 13?) might lack physical buttons. A recent US patent application spotted by Apple Insider suggests the company is investigating “capacitive sensing input devices”. Apparently these input devices, aka buttons, will be... Read more

In a surprise action on Tuesday, the United States government seized more than 30 website domains connected to Iran’s government, disrupting access to multiple state-backed media outlets. US officials said the action stemmed from terrorist disinformation distributed on the sites and their violation of sanctions. But press freedom advocates... Read more

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. agency responsible for developing technical metrics to promote “innovation and industrial competitiveness,” this week published a document outlining feedback and recommendations for mitigating the risk of bias in AI. The paper, about which NIST is accepting comments until August,... Read more

This still shows the unidentified object tracked by a Navy pilot in 2015 in the “Gimbal” video. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET The US Pentagon report on UFOs finally landed on Friday, and it reveals that all those sightings of bizarre flying things over the years fall into several categories, require more... Read more

Jordan Morris is the creator of Bubble, a hit comedy podcast about gig-economy monster hunters. The show was recently adapted into a graphic novel drawn by artist Tony Cliff. “First Second, the comic book publisher, got in touch, and they do the Adventure Zone books with the McElroy family,... Read more

Like the X-Files finale, the Pentagon UFO report disappointed many. Fox/20th Century Fox Television The truth is still out there. On Friday, the US Pentagon report on UFOs finally came out, and it was about as disappointing as the X-Files series finale. It’s unlikely anyone expected little green aliens to come... Read more

It was perfectly reasonable for the Department of Defense to be concerned that these represented some kind of advanced Soviet technology, and so the Air Force launched Project Sign and Project Grudge in 1947 and 1948, respectively, to study UFO sightings among its soldiers. The longest such investigation, Project... Read more

Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. Moving data between applications and warehousing data for analysis are recurring issues for app builders, data engineers, and IT teams. But we all know our businesses can benefit in significant ways if... Read more

Hristo Georgiev recently received a troubling message from a friend: Google says he’s a serial killer. If you Googled his name, the search engine would serve up Georgiev’s professional headshot alongside a Wikipedia article about a Bulgarian serial killer with the same name who died in 1980. This is... Read more