If you've ever signed up for anything online, you've probably taken a CAPTCHA test, an automated test to distinguish humans from machines. Click on all the images that contain a stop sign, check the ...

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Google today acquired reCAPTCHA, a tiny firm originally started as a project of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. CAPTCHAs are those funny little stretched out text images ...

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The end of the CAPTCHA is nigh — and very few tears will be shed for them. As Google today announced, those ubiquitous forms that make you prove you are human by typing in barely legible words and ...

Google’s purchase of reCAPTCHA is hailed as win-win for users and the search giant. Not so much for critics of the search giant’s controversial book scanning project, which the purchase bolsters. In ...