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Meet LoweBot, a customer-service robot here to give you ‘superpowers’

May 4, 2017Jobs

On the floor of this big-box home improvement store in east San Jose, shoppers can interact with a white plastic pillar that is touchscreen-enabled and speaks directly to users.

Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum was the focus of a Russian smear campaign.

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