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 ...

Bots have a bad rep. Shady manipulators have used these automated computer programs on social networks to spread conspiracy theories, spew vitriol and scam people. But when bots are programmed to do ...

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 ...

Here’s a fast and easy way to buy tickets to the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards in San Francisco: TechCrunch’s Messenger bot. Type the word “crunchies” into our Messenger bot or click here to purchase ...

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 ...

Twitter has refused to comply with Elon Musk’s repeated requests for the evaluation of spam and fake accounts on the platform, according to a letter from his lawyers Monday morning, leaving Musk ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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

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 ...