IN THE end, the robots won. On December 3rd, Google announced that it was radically changing its ReCAPTCHA system, the sort of prove-you’re-a-human-and-not-automated-software test that... Read more
New brain-mimicking artificial intelligence software can read security images called CAPTCHAS as well as people do, its developer says–but scientists are skeptical Luis von Ahn has hea... Read more
Investments ranged from £10 – £8,000. If you weren’t convinced that there was pent up demand for a crowdfunding platform in the UK where anybody can play the role of Dave McClure (I jest, a... Read more
All for free After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greate... Read more
The passwords of the future could become more secure and, at the same time, simpler to use. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden have been in... Read more
Image via Wikipedia From Handwritten CAPTCHAs to ‘Smart Rooms’ Buy something online, enter your credit card number and mailing address. Simple. Then you come to the box with the... Read more