Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. It has been a great year for artificial intelligence. Companies are spending more on large AI projects, and new investment in AI startups is on pace for a record year. All this... Read more

Social media has drastically restructured the way we communicate in an incredibly short period of time. We can discover, “Like,” click on, and share information faster than ever before, guided by algorithms most of us don’t quite understand. And while some social scientists, journalists, and activists have been raising... Read more

Enlarge / Dell has released a patch for a set of vulnerabilities that left as many as 30 million devices exposed. Artur Widak | Getty Images Researchers have known for years about security issues with the foundational computer code known as firmware. It’s often riddled with vulnerabilities, it’s difficult... Read more

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