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Google's reCAPTCHA Buy to Aid Book Search Search giant scoops up spam-fighting startup spun off from Carnegie Mellon to improve search in book and newspaper archives. |
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Spammers Hit MobileMe, Google Blogspots With new automated tools to help them, spammers are getting better at cracking CAPTCHA - a program that protects Web sites by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but computers cannot |
PC Magazine
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PC Magazine
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Hide and Peek Peekaboom is an entertaining mind exercise that may eventually help computers and robots recognize images and objects. |
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CAPTCHAs For Social Good? The Soylent Grid project aims to channel Internet users' efforts to help the visually impaired with image recognition. |
PC Magazine
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Deep-Sixing CAPTCHA The most popular challenge-response system on the Web is officially useless. |
