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 Bloomberg’s gift-for-mom experiment, Amazon’s Rufus was the only bot that tried to learn more before answering. It asked ...

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In a nondescript warehouse at an undisclosed location in Northern New Jersey, there sits a garage space full of neatly stacked sneakers—some on shelves, some not—a basketball hoop, an Armenian flag, ...

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 ...