With perhaps as many as one-in-10 accounts run by spammers (according to a new study) and a healthy subculture bent on subversion, Twitter — finding a sudden need to turn users into advertiser dollars ...

*Microsoft teamed with Bing to create TayTweets, an account for a robot that was designed to learn about “conversational understanding,” by having automated discussions with Twitter users, and ...

Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile) course.