We always hear about Santa giving gifts to kids who are nice, but what about the kids who are naughty? We assume they get coal in their stocking, but we never actually meet these bad boys and girls. That's why Futurama's Robot Santa is scarily realistic: If we never hear what happens to these supposedly horrible children, isn't it safe to assume they've been blasted into pieces by a vindictive Santa Claus and his minion reindeer? In the future, according to the zany cartoon, Mom's Friendly Robot Company invents a Santa Claus who is supposed to judge how good you were this past year and give you a present accordingly. However, someone put Robot Saint Nick's morality setting a little too high: In his mind, everyone deserves to be destroyed.

United Parcel Service and FedEx Corp. are having a hard time keeping up with holiday shipping volumes that have "blown past expectations," writes The Wall Street Journal. And the delayed delivery of millions of orders could rapidly become the Cyber Grinch that stole this Christmas. Meanwhile, back at the Santa's workshop located in Cambridge, U.K., Amazon has apparently made its first customer delivery by drone. Also according to the Journal, the drone made the trip in about 13 minutes, well ahead of the promised 30 minute windows for its "Prime Air" drone delivery service. "But can it keep the pizza warm for that duration?"