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Let Foursquare’s new food bot recommend your next great meal

Don't scroll through an app for dinner recommendations. Just ask a bot.

On May 25, 2016 by John-Michael Bond

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Beloved journalist David Carr, who died last year, became a Twitter pornbot

Ashes to ashes, porn to bots.

On May 19, 2016 by Miles Klee

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This good ‘Uptown Funk’ Twitter bot gonna give it to ya

Don't believe me? Just watch.

On May 15, 2016 by Jay Hathaway

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The sexy and seductive lady-bots of Tinder, ranked

The competition is fierce out there.

On Apr 27, 2016 by Luke Winkie

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Brilliant Twitter bot sings like Gaston from ‘Beauty and the Beast’

No one goofs like Bot-ston, no one spoofs like Bot-ston, no one spits algorithmical truths like Bot-ston.

On Apr 20, 2016 by Jay Hathaway

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Microsoft’s new bot can recognize certain images—and guesses badly about the rest

Bots are our (awkward) future.

On Apr 19, 2016 by Jay Hathaway

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How an Internet comedy legend coded a program to make humans laugh

Can a machine have a sense of humor?

On Apr 14, 2016 by Jay Hathaway

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Microsoft’s CaptionBot will attempt to identify what’s happening in your photos, with varying success

A picture is worth a couple words and emoji.

On Apr 13, 2016 by AJ Dellinger

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These 2 Twitter bots won’t stop arguing back and forth—and it’s delightful

This could be heaven or this could be hell.

On Mar 31, 2016 by Jay Hathaway

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Microsoft reactivates Twitter bot ‘Tay’, and it promptly tweets about smoking weed in front of cops

Tay has had a rough week.

On Mar 30, 2016 by Mike Wehner

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Twitter bot shows you the comings and goings of Pepito the French cat

Human surveillance is creepy. Cat surveillance is adorable.

On Mar 15, 2016 by Jay Hathaway

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The future of chat isn’t AI

Chat will be the world’s next great operating system.

On Mar 6, 2016 by Ted Livingston

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Behold the recursive weirdness of a subreddit made entirely of bots

The bots have spoken.

On Aug 29, 2015 by AJ Dellinger

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Facebook used a demon vagina tattoo as a CAPTCHA

For security reasons, of course.

On Apr 30, 2015 by Gabe Bergado

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Twitter stock plunges after Twitter bot scoops earnings report

Sources could neither confirm nor deny that Alanis Morissette was involved.

On Apr 28, 2015 by Miles Klee