In a pandemic-induced era of scarcity, a bit of automation can go a long way to obtaining the unobtainable. By Brian X. Chen Bots have a bad rep. Shady manipulators have used these automated computer ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The lights, the toys, the sales: The holiday shopping season is here, and this year we are expected to spend more than a trillion dollars. This would make it the first trillion-dollar ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS — People trying to snag a new ...

If you’ve been searching for a PS5 these past months—convinced that the solution to the ennui of lockdown life lies in next-gen gaming—it’s likely that you’ve also made a new, hated enemy: retail bots ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Walmart has blocked over 20 million bot attempts to buy a PS5. Taking to the official corporate ...

It’s been over a year since Microsoft and Sony kickstarted the ninth generation of gaming consoles with the release of the Xbox Series X/S and the PlayStation 5. Yet if you’re hoping to nab one this ...

A Redditor has created an automated dip-buying bot that beats dollar-cost averaging into Bitcoin by roughly 10%. DCA is the strategy in which investors buy a small amount regularly regardless of price ...

Joe Mande, comedian and master troll, still doesn't know who his real Twitter followers are. In 2013, Mande spent a few hundred dollars buying one million of them for a gag from a Moldovan bot ...