USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham asks people in line at a Los Angeles Apple Store the first thing they want to do with their new iPhone X's. LOS ANGELES -- You heard it hear first: Some of the folks waiting in line to pay $1,000 or more for the iPhone X bought it for the ... selfies. The iPhone X is the first re-designed iPhone since 2014, and Apple's Tim Cook and co. But the cheaper iPhone 8 and 8 Plus -- and last year's 7 and 7 Plus -- sported a lot of the technology that really matters, say the camera and sharp screen. We asked some of the 400 people on line at the swanky new Apple Store in the Westfield Century City Mall in Los Angeles to ask what they would do it when they got home.

Whenever artificial intelligence (AI) is mentioned in a business context, the conversation inevitably turns to the subject of chatbots. Chatbots are great business tools, from an ecommerce standpoint. Those developed by Fluid and North Face, for instance, can be used to replicate in-store interactions, improving the online shopping experience and increasing the number of consumers who spend on your products and services online. Chatbots can be used to deliver better customer service, operate call centers and improve your brand-building: The Walk with Yeshi chabot created by the well-building nonprofit CharityWater earlier this year was an outstanding example of how chatbots can be used to build brand perception, awareness and sentiment. But, are chatbots the definitive example of how businesses can use AI?

As Apple prepares to open pre-orders on the iPhone X on October 27th, Tim Cook and his team will be hoping for a tidal wave of supporters to balance out the weaker reception of the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. But there are more issues around this handset than most, which makes the tenth-anniversary iPhone one of the riskiest launches for Apple in the last few years. If there's one thing more than anything else that powers Apple, it is the glowing press coverage the brand receives. Following the release of the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, reports of poor sales and a lack of enthusiasm for the Eights were hard to counter. Tim Cook had already taken steps in previous years to address the principle of releasing'overnight' or'weekend' sales figures of a product launch.

In an odd turn for retail cooperation, Best Buy is now available on Alexa, Amazon's voice-powered digital assistant. Starting today, you can learn about and order Best Buy's Deal of the Day sales just by saying, "Alexa, talk to Best Buy." Sure, it seems odd to have a competing service on Amazon's own devices, but as the blog post from Best Buy points out, the big box store has been selling Amazon Alexa devices in a special section in about 700 of its stores earlier this year. Best Buy is only the latest retailer to jump on the voice-shopping trend, too. This isn't the first time Amazon has allowed a competitor into its garden, either. Spotify and Pandora live easily next to Amazon's own music service on its connected smart speakers, as do competing on-demand video services.

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The eye-watering $999 price tag doesn't seem to be keeping fans away as thousands waited in long lines outside of Apple stores around the country to get their hands on the much-anticipated iPhone X. And the high-end device is testing the patience of consumers and investors because the company did not make enough models to meet demand worldwide. So those who do manage to get through the door to buy one this morning will be pleased to know they are sitting on potential gold mines, with some devices already being auctioned off on eBay for up to $18,000. The X is Apple's next generation smartphone that uses facial recognition software for the first time and is on sale today in cities around the world - with queues building at Apple Stores amid rumors of limited stock. And sales had Wall Street booming as shares hit an all-time high on Friday morning as optimistic reviews poured in about how the X would make this quarter's earnings soar.

With an eye-watering price tag of £999, these customers will be hoping for some decent bang for their buck. But that didn't put off Apple fans as the much-anticipated iPhone X's with its lush screen and facial-recognition skills tests the patience of consumers and investors with demand outstripping supply around the world. And those who managed to get their hands on one this morning will be pleased to know they are sitting on potential gold mines, with devices already listed for sale on auction website eBay for up to £15,000. The X is Apple's next generation smartphone that uses facial recognition software for the first time and is going on sale in cities worldwide today - with queues building at Apple Stores amid rumours of limited stock. Among the first to get the new device in Britain was reality TV contestant Marco Pierre White Jr, 22, the son of the celebrity chef, who joined the queue last night to pick up a phone for his girlfriend Francesca Suter.

The day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday, has been recognized as the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States since the 1950s. Black Friday 2017 was predicted to not be as hectic as other years, with more people shopping online than ever before. Below is a compiled running list of the best deals to take advantage of on Nov. 24. Certain Costco deals are listed from Nov. 17-27. The store will be closed on Thanksgiving and open at 9 a.m.

As Apple prepares to release the iPhone X on Friday, the wait time for those who pre-ordered the device last week is getting shorter as statuses of customers orders are updated to "shipped," according to MacRumors. Meanwhile, customers have started to line up outside Apple stores to get their hands on an iPhone X. Apple, carriers and retailers in 55 countries began taking pre-orders for the iPhone X last Friday. The device is set to be released in stores this Friday at 8 a.m. The 64GB iPhone X model is priced at $999, while the 256GB version is selling for $1,149, the most expensive iPhone yet. The smartphone includes the Face ID facial recognition technology, Animoji, a vertical dual-camera system and other features.

What you're seeing in this video from graphics processing firm Nvidia is the result of two algorithmic adversaries trying to one-up each other. Working from a photo database of 30,000 celebrity faces, the two algorithms learned about different details, like beards and jewelry, that make a face look real to the human eye, and then engaged in a rapid-fire back-and-forth process that produced amazingly realistic results. None of the good-looking folks you see are real, but you'd never know it.