Second grade teacher Melissa Cahalan works with second-graders Da’Neyah Boothe (left) and Stella Meyers (right) on an exercise with Bee-Bots, bee robots used as a teaching tool in computer science ...

To spread misinformation like wildfire, bots will strike a match on social media but then urge people to fan the flames. Automated Twitter accounts, called bots, helped spread bogus articles during ...

Think back to September 29, 2016. If someone had told you that, one year later, Twitter would be briefing the Senate and House intelligence committees on how Russia used a network of hundreds of ...

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In the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. election, Russian bots and trolls took to Twitter and other social media platforms to try to turn Americans against one another. But in addition to spreading false ...

Twitter bots and trolls appear to be skewing online discussions about vaccinations, spreading misinformation on the topic and fueling online discord, according to a new study. "The vast majority of ...

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A quarter of all tweets about the climate crisis are written by bots, and the majority of computer-generated posts on the issue are geared to deny climate science. The troubling finding comes by way ...

I’m not a machine (as far as I’m aware) but one day AI bots will probably replace at least some aspects of my job as a science journalist. Still, could these computer systems ever really be capable of ...

Researchers have completed the first analysis of all 1,601 of Wikipedia's bots, using computer algorithms to classify them by function and shed light on the ways that machine intelligences and human ...

EXCLUSIVE: Robot-fighting series BattleBots has gotten a green light for a second season on Discovery and Science channels. Production begins in April in Long Beach, California, with premiere slated ...