no ifs, ands, or bots. san francisco. >>> another day of testimony is on tap today in the sex trafficking trial of ghislaine maxwell. she faces up to 80 years in prison, charged with recruiting and grooming underaged girls for sexual abuse by jeffrey epstein who took his openwn life in jai. yesterday, epstein's private pilot testified during more than a thousand flights over 30 years, he never saw any evidence of sexual activity on the plane. no toys, no condoms, no young girls without their parents. maxwell's been locked up since last year. holly williams has a look back at her life and times. >> reporter: ghislaine maxwell grew up here in the united kingdom in immense wealth and privilege. we wanted to find out how she went from this to a new york jail on trial on sex trafficking charges. as we discovered, it's a complicated story. >> the ocean has just ended up being basically the largest dustbin in the world. >> reporter: this is ghislaine maxwell in 2014. >> i'm here representing civil society. >> repo

trying to target gun >>> the grinch bots who stole christmas, or at least the presents online bots arest gifts before humans ever have a chance to snag them. the so-called grinch bots are grabbing items like the playstation 5 in a matter of milliseconds sometimes those items then sell online at a higher price some shoppers are saying if you can't beat them, join them cnbc's courtney reagan gets to the bottom of the bots. >> reporter: grinch bots are computer programs built to search and buy a specific typically high demand, low supply item online commonly used for hot sneaker drops and gaming consoles like the playstation 5. >> it works the same way the tickle me elmo ran away 25 years ago, which is mom is running around, going to a store, picking up hot item, either selling it, gifting it. >> reporter: these programs are particularly active this time of year cloud fair works with retailers to block bots. it's detected more than 1.5 trillion grinch bots at work on black friday this year in many cases the goods are resold at higher places on marketplaces, including e bay, amazon, and ot

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grinch bot activity doubled. last christmas, the ps5 was new. bot traffic surged 800%. murphy -- a mother of two -- looked for one everywhere. >> i ended up purchasing it at a multiple of what the street market is from a very -- from a site that i wasn't sure honestly was genuine. >> how much over retail did you wind up paying? >> 2 to 3x. >> how it that make you feel? >> frustrated. >> reporter: like dave kennedy this christmas. >> i will keep trying, yeah. >> even though you know what you are up against? >> sometimes you get lucky. >> reporter: he knows the underground economy he is up against, no ifs, ands, or bots. mark strassman, cbs news, san francisco. clerk: hello, how can i? sore throat pain? ♪honey lemon♪ try vicks vapocool drops. in honey lemon chill. for fast-acting sore throat relief. wooo vaporize sore throat pain with vicks vapocool drops. facing expensive vitamin c creams with dull results? olay brightens it up with new olay vitamin c. gives you two times brighter skin. hydrates better than the 100, 200, even $400 cream. see, my skin looks more even, and

and, yeah, what does that look like in a chat bot? if it is ai, there is a chance for it to change. >> that is what i was getting at >> i don't know if it's the same if you write new books after you die. >> you can get into some really interesting experiments without for sure. >> and ai generated elvis song out there. >> i have heard it. using the same technology. if you are not using it to feed it a bunch of pop songs, in the style of, you know, going over there, okay, they are not great. [laughter] not something i would listen to on my own. can only get better from here, i guess. >> i also read books to connect with people. where there books that influenced you on this? are other writers dealing with this in the same way? >> there are a lot of books when i was researching this book. one is a book called the restless clock. she writes about the history of philosophy and how, she goes back to i think like the 16th century and talks about how we have always sort of had to, questions about how they are machinelike. that was a great text

now anyone can buy a bot they cost on average between $10 to $400.e else in line. fairness, of course, is debatable. but they're available. tyler? >> courtney, thanks very much. courtney reagan. i'm tyler mathisen in for shepard smith. it's half past the hour. here is what making the news >>> california looking to take a page looking to apply parts of that law to gun laws in the golden state >>> one cyber expert says it may be the scariest vulnerability he's ever seen the problem just discovered that puts all of us at risk, and why it's not going to be fixed any time soon. >>> but, first, a state of disaster after a series of deadly tornadoes slam in to kentucky >>> the city of dawson springs among the hardest hit. it is also the hometown of governor andy beshear's father families starting to return to the area to salvage what they can. but many are returning to nothing more than a pile of rubble, their belongings swept away or buried under debris. about 70 miles east, this was the scene yesterday in bowling green, kentucky. hundreds of homes and bui

and yeah, what does that look like if it's in a chat bot? i guess the thing if it's ai there's more potential for it to change and become something that wasn't originally you. >> that's what i was getting at was -- well, i don't know that it's quite the same when you write new books after you die, you know. >> yeah. right, that would be -- you can get into some really interesting thought experiments with that for sure. >> there's an ai-generated elvis song out there. >> i've heard it. >> yeah. >> yeah. yeah. and that's -- it's using the same technology as gpt3, but they're using it to feed it a bunch of songs like pop songs, and tell create its own pop songs in the style of elvis or in the style of, you know, billie holiday or anybody. and they're okay. they're not great. i don't know if it's something i would listen to like on my own. but i mean, yeah, it can only get better from here i guess. >> question two -- i also read books to connect with the people, and i'm looking forward to reading your book. were there books that influenced you o

cnbc's courtney ragan gets to the bottom of the bots >> reporter: grinch bots are computer programs searchings. >> it's the same way tickle me elmo ran away 25 years ago which is moms running around, going to a store, picking up a hot item. >> reporter: they exist years around but are particularly active these times of year in many cases the goods are resold at higher prices on marketplaces chris chan, a self-proclaimed sneaker head has paid for bots to buy sneakers and exboxes. >> other people have had more experiences where things sell out so quickly. >> reporter: matthew benz uses bots to buy goods and resell them it started because bots were beating him to checkout. >> it's the whole if you can't beat them, join them that's what got me into it i don't know, i think it can be a long term thing. they are limiting card time or even requiring a membership to get a product. if they have to pay more, retailers lose out not just on money but loyalty as well. >> reporter: anyone can buy a bot. they cost on average between $10 to $400. they can help you get a leg up on the competition or get in fr

leading to more bots ever. >> these bots are so much faster than you and i are, and so if you have hadar and you've seen it in stock, you may have tried and you have gotten it into your cart and then suddenly it's snatched away from you at the last minute, that is all these bots working. >> reporter: and the price gouge on these resale products, not in the christmas spirit. one collector sees the pricing pressure first hand when looking for a special pokemon anniversary item. >> retails for $120, and you'll see it on ebay for $300, or $600 even, so it's insane. >> reporter: the bots are fast, but you can use social media to stay one click ahead. >> the reason why you have to use social media is because the key to buying these consoles is knowing when the retailers restock. >> reporter: you need to be early in the digital line to be ready. experts say turn on push notifications for social media accounts that announce new item availability and releases. another tip, join rewards and or insider programs that will fill your order as soon as possible. >> retailers are working very hard to g

a face a perfect grinch bots storm. a surge in online shopping, and america's supply chain crisis. >> they go on to retail sites and scan the inventory, at a rate of often more than once per second, and they buy it up before the average consumer can. >> reporter: before the pandemic, but activity on resale sites doubled. that is why you see more of this command, a bot blocker. >> it can never be 100%. >> reporter: last christmas, the ps five was new. bought traffic surged 800%. >> reporter: you feel a certain amount of pressure to deliver. >> absolutely. it is a letdown for them when you can't. >> reporter: he knows the underground economy he is up against, no if's, and's, or butts. mark strassmann, san francisco. >>> up next, improving the lives of those who have served in the armed forces. the new effort to make sure veterans are getting the care they need. >>> tonight on the "cbs evening news" -- >>> the breaking news tonight, the w.h.o. advises people 60 and older with pre-existing conditions to postpone travel, as

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then a bots are able to do the ladder. once he's in a bots, find the cells they are able to build copies of themselves. joshua bon guard, a computer scientists part of the study says with the right design, they will spontaneously self replicate. so far, scientists envisioned several uses for the self replicating organisms. they believe it could be useful for searching not radioactive contamination gathering plastic pollution from oceans. and in the world of medicine traveling through arteries to scrape out plaque. but that's not all. some researchers believe these dental bots could also be programmed to kill cancer cells and make headway in anti aging medicine. will scientists part of the study believe the ai behind as an a bots might be the solution in creating a more effective vaccine for the crone of virus reporting for news news. hughes, atocha suites r t o. in the meantime, volley on twitter at scottie, and he has used the hash tag team and be a for the show and more download the portal that to be at for your apple or

bots to buy goods and resell and other bots are used to nab the hardest to get sneakers. >> you endpay resale and that could be a couple of hundred dollars more so by paying for an add to cart service for any other extension service that will buy sneakers for you, that could be something like $50 extra >> not many retailers work to prevent bot buying and limit cart time or require memberships to get some products but it is fascinating that this happens. >> so fascinating. >> it is like trading, it could be done in milliseconds and they search and buy. >> i was going to say, that we always whether the algorithms in the markets are suggesting that stocks are overpriced, i wonder if consumer goods are overprices or it means the consumer is so well -- got so much money to spend there is more upsidein the economy to come. >> when they resell the prices are higher, but christopher chan who loves sneakers he said their hard to get. >> great story thanks for sitting in today. and as well tomorrow which we look forward to. on the other note, tomorrow we have an interview with the bank of ame

the kind of dystopian reality that is being painted by critics — assassinations, private armies of botsciding whether humans live or die. these types of weapons that could easily be deployed and moved throughout different environments, like a swarm, the sort of embodiments of the robo—dog with the machine gun, and how easy they can proliferate, how easy they can fall into the hands of not what we think of as traditional militaries. gunfire this isn't about prohibiting or banning ai usage in the military, or even in weapon systems. it's about drawing a red line on the specific use case of weapons, which are these smaller types of systems that target people. even the un secretary general is worried. the weaponisation of artificial intelligence is a serious danger. on december 13, a review of conventional weapons is scheduled to be held at the un in geneva where they'll be discussing killer robots. campaigners will be looking for an outright ban. but already, that looks unlikely, with the us reportedly saying it would prefer a non—binding agreement. the discussion should be more about how

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that may actually be the work of bought the bots by a popular toys and other products and then resellhese christmas grinch is a group of congressional democrats is introducing the stopping grinch bots act. the bill would build on previous legislation that protected online ticket sales from bots, which was signed into law in 2016, the holiday season typically sees an increase in online scams, especially now that the pandemic is prompted many shoppers to shop online parents. listen up. some of the toys that you're buying for your children may actually damage their hearing. the sight and hearing association published its annual noisy toys list at the top of the list. this little thing, the screaming rubber chicken from atlanta. >> the organization found. >> sounds more like a chew toy for your dog than a toy for your child. the group says the checks in at nearly 110 decibels when it held close to iran that can cause damage quickly. so this is something they want you to be on the lookout for. we have a full list on our website >> have a good evening, everybody see why hide your skin if du

from buying a popular gifts this holiday season, bots or automated software.him. they quickly by of toys and other items online when they go on sale and then those products are resold for way higher prices on the various online platforms will now a group of congressional democrats is introducing what they're calling the stopping grinch bots act. this bill basically is going to build on top of previous bills have been passed that protect online ticket sales from bots that was signed into law. back in 2016, the holiday season as we know, typically sees an increase in online scams, especially now that the pandemic has forced a lot of us do buy online instead of going into physical stores. >> and also we're talking about a warning when you put up your holiday lights. you know, if you're talk about that lasers, we tease this earlier. a lot of people use lasers. there's so much easier. you don't have to hang the old-school lights anymorea but the faa says make sure they're pointed directly your home and not towards the sky because they can distract or even potential

and because the crypto markets are now like the equity markets in that there are a lot of bots in august that pick up on these keywords and hash tags on twitter and google read it. but unfortunately, these bots are not that smart and cannot differentiate the context of these hash tags. so in always case, that hash i was trying to on twitter because it stood for african american vernacular, english and people were talking about that. but the boss interpreted ave decline, and then went and started buying spree and pumping the coin up, thinking that there was high interest and bullish sentiment behind that name. and now the very same things seem to have happened to o. m i c. and i'm very sure some savvy traders jumped onto the mean as soon as they saw a lot of the bots mistakenly pick up on that name. so usually the owners of these are their quick to realize their mistake and they reversed that trade. but in, on my case, retail mean traders started adding fuel to the fire, and the rally lasted more than a few days before, eventually crushing back down. so interest really died because litera

he can't me the wild west where people are, you know, going around these, he called them bigots and bots going around and harming people. the question is, what is deemed as harm? and that's again, a legal term. what is the harm that's done when bridge of war says, i know i'm better looking than been swimming and the internet agrees with you that doesn't necessarily harm you, maybe my ego, but is it actually hard my life? no, it doesn't actually harm. i know a little bit it would boom bus benson. thank you so much. i think that and finally, long before i'm a crown was the latest variant of coping 19. it was just another letter in the greek alphabet, and it was also the name of the crypto currency and has it right. all of the publicity sent the token on quite the roller coaster this week. it was worth just $65.00 on thursday, then shot up to $688.00 on monday morning before then falling 75 percent. so joining us now to discuss the latest coast, christy i. now, christy, what do we know about this crypto currency? yeah, we know it's just the fact that it was a complete flute that the crypto

bots are buying up hot holiday gifts. foxes, heather sullivan explains what they are.them. i think the most popular thing that people are talking about a lot of playstation five xbox series x, the new old led screen nintendo switch, but sometimes things like phones and smart watches. also butts are buying them up. there were pots out their software programs that swoop in and get all the stock click all the by now buttons before human beings can even get started. compounded by shortages and supply chain snarls. buyers then sell the hot items for much higher prices on sites like ebay and desperate parents get gouged. but there are ways to beat the bots first follow retailers on social media to get alerts when hot items are restocked. some retailers let you sign up for restocking alerts. you can also use stock trackers such as now in stock ends alert as soon as we have a huge playstation five tracker that we update usually several times a day, and it's really to give people the most chances possible to try to get that item for fee. you can join retailer membership program

whether it's social network or a chat bot. how do you get people to use a chat bot? a good sibling and going to point out my sisters did this, point out your flaws. where you need to be better. that is the important part of our lives. a sibling or a therapist. you do not need someone only telling you the good things. you don't want people only creating that bubble for you. how do we step out of that. >> are there enough people working on that problem to give you a balanced look with a very personalized outlook? >> i guess people are at least recognizing the problem. as i wrote about the chat bot, for instance, i talked to experts in all sorts of fields. in therapy. in technology. sherry, you know, well known in this field, she is adamant about this. they are only reinforcing what you already think. they only give you the positive. we need to step back and think about it. at least calling attention to it >> people in quarantine, has that experience being isolated or maybe technology as part of the solution, but not the entire story, has that changed the focus area tha

will scientist part of the study believe the ai behind as an a bots might be the solution in creating a more effective vaccine for the crone of virus reporting. for news news use a tasha sweeps r t. now in the meantime, volley on twitter at scottie, and he's used the hash tag team and be over the show and more download the portal that to be at for your apple or android device. thanks, the lodging have a great evening. ah ah ah, you were told it was bad for your eyes and your post yet that it would stop you from having real friends and finding a girlfriend. but what they fail to mention is that you could make thousands of dollars every weekend by simply playing video games with stacy been a couple of them for though we formed the fortune of wesley with georgia was me with multiple to do. so please don't, don't of course to make video games a high paying job. you have to be gifted and quick witted. i'm going to open up with an installation and business to live near bottom and miss thompson with webpage bentley up in the else produce park. even started yet gala boy, well you most storm y

nope if anne's or bots.plause] he is always entertaining when he constantly complaining up in the air. [cheers and applause] he's never said you heard it here first. [cheers and applause] seems like an office christmas party very loud but leaves a mess in your garbage can kat. when he was a kid santa had a set on his lap when massive psychic the television can be to. jesse welcome to the show looking for to become people right now. look frightened. makes you less recognizable which starves her ego. >> yes. i should be able to tell how i rent in the hierarchy of good-looking people. and now i can't tell where i stand anymore. [laughs] was having some electric surgery this morning. i dislike more in the gap. i said, what is going on here? you're a medical professional can you speak up about all this craziness. he said esther waters 11 calls mr. waters. esther waters it's all about money. we arty have socialized medicine. there's no private practice anymore. all the big hospitals want all the private practices

it could be a bunch of bottings. it get -- bot withs.is woman specializes in getting through it. lisa garber, cybersecurity expert. people are buying up the popular toys? how does that work? >> hi, or neil, great to see you. and this is very different from the mid '90s tick thing me elmo craze that we saw where parents were fighting each other in different shopping malls. bots are basically software applications that are programmed to complete certain tasks, and that can be an automated help desk for a web site, amply piefying contact on social media but buying up all the hottest things and reselling them at exorbitant rates. neil: do i'd the party platforms know that's happening? >> it's pretty likely that they do. in fact, there's been legislative action a couple years ago. they created the bots act under the obama administration which went after ticket scalpers. this is the a similar strategy, but it's for different kinds of goods, right in and congress has introduced legislative proposals to ban type of activity for years now. the pr

these in a bots moved toward a target and had the capability to actually heal themselves. after being cut, the findings were published in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences . the said he touches on how application has evolved into many forms, while some involve growth within the body or organism like humans. self replication is able to assemble material in their environment and turn it into functional. self copies as in a bots, are able to do the latter. once he's in a boss, find the cells, they are able to build copies of themselves. joshua bon guard, a computer scientist, part of the study says with the right design, they will spontaneously self replicate. so far, scientists envisioned several uses for the self replicating organisms. they believe it could be useful for searching not radioactive contamination gathering plastic pollution from oceans and in the world of medicine traveling through arteries to scrape out plaque. but that's not all. some researchers believe these dental bots could also be programmed to kill cancer cells and make headway in ant

that is these bots working.ransactions take no time at all, a frustrating fight that he says is compounded by the pandemic, supply chain issues, and demand for things at levels that have never existed before. this san jose resident says he is still struggling to find a special pokÉmon anniversary collection and is not willing to pay scalper prices. >> it is seen on ebay for over $300, even $600, insane. reporter: but something he found helpful was turning on push notifications for social media accounts that announce item availability. >> on a site like amazon, you can do one click purchasing. click on that and hope for the best. >> he secured consuls for his friends. he says it is often groups of people behind these grinch bought price gouging practices. >> sometimes teenagers who work together using these technologies to buy the device and then sell or for a profit. reporter: he says it is important to note this practice is not illegal, though congress is trying to fight it lawmakers in -- introduce the stoppin

and so, are you a bot?- you're like, "dude, this will be -- i -- i will answer all of your questions. i go, "thanks so much. and then you go -- i go, "but that will be the last question, i will never ask you you're going to ask me more questions. and you were right, i did. yeah >> i'm here for you always all of you all of you >> jimmy: i appreciate it. yeah, you're here for all of us good >> yes, everyone >> jimmy: i just wanted to thank you. >> everyone, even the fans all the time [ cheers and applause now you brought some very cool stuff with you today what are we looking at first >> so these are -- >> jimmy: uh-huh >> right down here, the ray-ban stories. you want to put them on? >> jimmy: sure >> yeah, put them on >> jimmy: okay >> so these have two cameras in them and that means since they look like normal sunglasses, you can, basically, record without you knowing. and funny enough, i did that to you. i think we have the clip right here >> jimmy: what [ knocking on door ] >> yep >> jimmy: hello? >> oh,

congress wants to stop online bots from buying up all the popular gifts this holiday season. >> butts. if you're on a where automated software tools. it are used to quickly buy up toys and other items online. think of the ps 5. the one spot, you know, this. they stock up the products and then resold for way over the retail price on the various different online platforms and now a group of congressional democrats is introducing the stop grinch bots act. this is a bill that would build on previous legislation that protected online ticket sales from bots, which was signed into law back in 2016, the holiday season typically sees an increase in online scams, especially now. but the pandemic has forced many of us to shop online getting so many e-mails, right. trash trash trash. >> so this year. in addition to all the warnings that we constantly talk about. let's talk about the next morning and that is for people who set up laser light displays, which is the way everybody does. their house is now apparently james, you don't even have to hang the lights, right. get with it, right. you set up

in the third setting of the biden bot is this righteous anger that's yelling.t that speech at the d.n.c. holiday party, there's this yelling, there's this righteous indignation. oh, the republicans, better get ready, pal. there's this tough talk. this is supposed to project authority. i actually sense that it projects the exact opposite. it projects an insecurity and a weakness because they know that they are underwater on so many issues including immigration that the american public really care about. when the american public looks at these handling of these issues, they see the biden administration and the people that are in charge are failing. now, they're about 19 house democrats that are either departing the house or moving on to new things next year. i do not think that you would see these numbers if there was some big red wave coming or excuse me, if there was a big blue wave coming. >> biden bot, you may have the answer of the day, rob smith. contrast that to white house press secretary who had a hard time when asked to name president biden's greatest f

is the time and congress wants to stop online bots from buying a popular gifts this holiday season. 5. all these bots for biden ps 5 and then selling it for twice 3 times. even 4 times the retail value. so it's basically like a scalping like tickets like stuff you want buy the stock and then they resell it. and so congress is going to try and stop that. in fact, new congressional group of congressional democrats is introducing what they're calling the stopping grinch bots act. this bill would build on previous legislation that protected online ticket sales from bots, which we signed the law back in 2016, what you're talking about event tickets and stuff trying the holiday season. typically sees a lot of online scams pop up, especially now that the pandemic has a lot of a shopping online. so be wary about some of the email offers you get online. well, and then also with the bought saying now i get why. like of a tv or a pair shoes is on sale. i go there and they're all out. >> how does that happen? right? lots. hopefully they'll find a way of slowing them down to give give us a chanc

we talked a little be it about grinch bots and how actually consumers were trying to use them to buy or rent a bot to try to help them get one of those play station fives to be able to play a number of different popular games. we'll see how that shook out because i think they were really hard for folks to get their hands on at least from a primary source if wasn't bot second hand. >> we're going to be talking a lot more about gift card redemptions and supply chain, but what a boat load of data today. thanks >>> our next guest says do not short tech going into 2022 joining us this morning, wilmington trust head of investment strategy, megan shoe joins us the cloud, social media. obviously the resupply of semiconductors as one of the reasons why at least in hardware, it's going to be a tough short if kwyou're going t try it >> yeah, carl, thanks for having me i agree. i think there's a lot of potential negativity around tech concern around valuations and as i think about the last year to two years of market activity and really the narrative around the tech sector, it's been very rates

acted would end the trend of people using bots to scoop up entire inventories of the hottest holiday gifts online and then selling them. at inflated prices, teachers say many students are relying too much on so called smart tools to improve their writing because of school closures during the pandemic. those students have spent a year or longer working on laptops and phones that have spell check and autocorrect. educators and parents say that means students are not learning how to spell for themselves, and that could be part of the reason that scores on state comprehension tests are dropping. especially last year with virtual learning. like my fifth grader, um, had a lot of auto correct working for him, and so i don't know that he recognizes misspellings in the way that he might. had he been in school reading, printed text and having to write it. language teachers say spelling should be emphasized all the time. not just during class time. elon musk, the ceo of tesla, is time magazine's person of the year. the magazine said he is different from any other ceo constantly interacting with

the kind of dystopian reality that has been painted by critics — assassinations, private armies of botsers deciding whether humans live or die. these types of weapons that could be easily deployed and moved throughout different environments, like a swarm, embodiments of the robo—dog with a machine—gun, and how easy they can proliferate, and fall into the hands of not what we think of as traditional militaries. this is not about prohibiting or banning ai usage in the military, or even in weapon systems. it is about drawing a red line on this specific use case of weapons, which are these smaller types of systems that target people. even the un secretary general is worried. the weaponisation of artificial intelligence is a serious danger. on december 13th, a review of conventional weapons is scheduled to be held at the un, in geneva, where they will be discussing killer robots. campaigners will be looking for an outright ban. but, already, that looks unlikely, with the us reportedly saying it would prefer a non—binding agreement. the discussion should be more about how we regulate it and h

now shoppers battling bots.etail experts say a large sale of online buying down by grinch bots buying items before youk. then they resell them at higher prices. >> they goo unto retail sites and scan the inventory at a rate of more than once a second and they buy it up before the average consumerk. >> it's frustrating. absolutely frustrating. kids that want it and adults buying it and reselling them. >> it's not illegal but it's unethical. >> san matee company works to combat bots. the company said that activity has doubled during the pandemic and surged by 800% when the ps5 came out. >>> the world is getting a chance to have an intimate moment with the royal family. a new exhibit on princess dieona features candid photographs of the royal family. the curator said he wants everybody to feel like they are sharing a moment with the family. > >> there's also fun being had by meg, kate, will, look at them with the snake. i don't know how much fun they are having or if they are just terrified but it's real. >> all of

introducing legislation in congress to stop the influence of bots in online retailing.e applying for new credit cards. the federal reserve bank of new york says 27% of us consumers reported that they signed up for a new credit, a credit card in october. that is the highest rate since before the pandemic. demand for cars declined early in the pandemic because people were concerned about taking on new debt and restrictions on travel and dining resulted in weaker demand for credit cards. >> and now kron 4 sports from the 18 t fiber sports desk. >> get rid of all those bots. i won't be paying as much for my sneakers and we get them off the wide world internet. the forty-niners were back at work today prepping for yet another big game this sunday. we'll head to the pacific northwest to take on the seahawks. seattle made some news today when they sign 36 year-old running back adrian peterson still has a little in the tank. they're trying to sure up their banged up backfield, which is without its starters and 2 key backups. it's been a tough season for the seahawks. they're ju

by bots and trolls. can we be honest about what's happening?people are not actually sincerely expressing their feelings. so i think, so getting off of social media was one, even with my trauma which was huge, actually huge and transformative, find a therapist who was trauma informed and can recognize a lot of my behavior was going out of of an integrated trauma. to use boundaries instead of demonizing. so i do think boundaries are an act of grace what you let people know sometimes i used to think of boundaries is way to keep people out and they are a way to let people in. because you say to people like i'm willing to interact with you but these are the boundaries around how unwilling to interact. so boundary for me might be you can't speak to me with contempt. you can't gaslight me. these are some things and those are my boundaries and if you want to be in a relationship with me or in conversation with me you have to honor these. if you don't, then you don't. >> and that's the choice you made. not you, but they made. >> or a boundary around som

thank you so much for your candid bots today. thank you, steve. so what's the bottom line? 600 years ago, galileo was punished by the catholic church for insisting that the earth rotated around the sun and to day, despite his supposedly living in the age of science and rationality. the debate about the corona virus reminds me about galileo all the time. no matter how much disdain some folks have for science and scientists guess what folks, the crone of iris is here, the west is fighting it with masks and testing and vaccines, and contact creasing and avoiding crowds. but for the majority of the world, all of these measures, even washing hands with clean water, is a really big challenge. in the end, the scientific approach is going to succeed. it's going to take time and money, but it is possible. and then all people on this planet should have bare access, no matter the content, no matter the zipcode. that's the only way. and that's the bottom line. ah, uses she assume a visionary teacher. ah, how's is there? well, meets the man bringing traditional arabic sounds to a whole