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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

More than four months ago, Microsoft unveiled plans to add a bot framework to Skype, letting users chat directly with bots to do things like book trips and buy tickets to shows. Today, that plan has ...

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 ...

This Christmas, it’s boy vs. bot. Thirteen-year-old John Coleman has tried everything to buy a Sony PlayStation 5. Coleman, from Bowie, Md., spent his summer cleaning and mowing lawns to save up the ...

Tickets to the most popular concerts and other live events are often hard to find because of abusive practices by vendors who illegally use computer programs called bots to grab them up, according to ...