bots

Games

How Sneaker Bots Snatched Up All the PS5s and 3080s

10.13.20

By Patrick Klepek
Games

Meet the Guy Fixing Team Fortress 2’s Bot Problem…With More Bots

10.13.20

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

Opportunists Are Preying on Instacart Shoppers as Bots Ramp Up on the Platform

05.08.20

By Joseph Cox
Money

Can’t Find Dumbbells or Hair Clippers to Buy Online? These Resellers Are the Reason

04.24.20

By Hannah Smothers
Tech

Instacart Sends Cease-and-Desist to Website That Automatically Placed Orders

04.23.20

By Joseph Cox
News

Nearly 50% of Twitter Accounts Talking about Coronavirus Might Be Bots

04.23.20

By Tess Owen
Tech

People Are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots

04.21.20

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Resellers Using Checkout Bots Are Driving the Nintendo Switch Shortage

04.17.20

By Joseph Cox
Tech

The World’s Second Largest Wikipedia Is Written Almost Entirely by One Bot

02.11.20

By Kyle Wilson
Sex

Wow, This Interracial Relationship ‘Bot’ Really Went Off the Rails

01.03.20

By Katie Way
Tech

Microsoft Used Machine Learning to Make a Bot That Comments on News Articles For Some Reason

10.04.19

By Samantha Cole
Tech

Inside the Black Market for Bots That Buy Designer Clothes Before They Sell Out

08.26.19

By Joseph Cox

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Life

What Experts Mean When They Say the World Is in ‘Water Bankruptcy’

It’s already happening, it’s just a matter of how much worse we’re going to allow it to get.

9 minutes ago

By Luis Prada
Photo: Getty Images

Life

The Anti-Social Media Influencers Who Want You to Put Them Out of a Job

You can’t warn people about the horrors of digital overuse by shouting into a void, after all.

39 minutes ago

By Luis Prada
Photo: Tero Vesalainen / Getty Images

Life

Is Cold Weather the Reason You’re Always Sick in Winter?

The cold does make it easier to get sick, but not in the way you might think.

1 hour ago

By Ashley Fike
Photo: Ahmed Boug et al./Communications Earth & Environment

Life

What the Cheetah Mummies Found in Arabian Caves Tell Us About Ancient Predators

The caves don’t bring cheetahs back, but they do complicate the idea that the predators disappeared without a trace.

2 hours ago

By Ashley Fike
Illustration by Reesa

Horoscopes

Weekly Horoscope: January 25-January 31

How will your sign fare this week, stargazer?

3 hours ago

By Ashley Fike