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 about her interests and hobbies as well as the price range. After learning ...

One of retail’s worst-kept secrets is that retailers offer rebates only because so few shoppers bother to go through the effort to redeem them. A similar phenomenon happens with many after-the-fact ...

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 ...

A former NBA star is interested in buying a Tesla Optimus robot. The bot won't be available for deliveries for three to five years. The market’s back, and these 3 income stocks are thriving. See them ...

Phil Nichols, 45, of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, has been very good this year. In a concession to the pandemic, he’s managed his information technology job for the Internal Revenue Service from home ...

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 ...