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Google acquires Web security firm reCAPTCHA

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google announced on Wednesday that it has acquired reCAPTCHA, a company that produces the squiggly words used by websites to guard against spam and fraud.

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created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1




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Stanford researchers outsmart captcha codes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers say that captcha security codes, asking Internet sign-up users to repeat a string of letters to prove the users are human, can be thwarted, and they have successfully ...

Technology / Internet

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 18 report

Stanford computer scientists find Internet security flaw

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Stanford Security Laboratory create a computer program to defeat audio captchas on website account registration forms, revealing a design flaw that leaves them vulnerable ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

New site to use crowd-sourcing as means to translate the internet

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you're Google and you're looking for the next crowd-sourcing piece to add to your already massive portfolio, it would seem Professor Luis von Ahn, of Carnegie Mellon, would be your man. After several previous ...

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created Apr 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Crowd workers are not online Shakespeares, but Carnegie Mellon research shows they can write

Writing can be a solitary, intellectual pursuit, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that the task of writing an informational article also can be accomplished by dozens of people working independently ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Acquisitions are back on': Google CEO

US Internet giant Google is ready to begin buying up other companies again as the world economy begins to recover, chairman and chief executive Eric Schmidt said Wednesday.

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created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computer users are digitizing books quickly and accurately with Carnegie Mellon method

Millions of computer users collectively transcribe the equivalent of 160 books each day with better than 99 percent accuracy, despite the fact that few spend more than a few seconds on the task and that most do not realize ...

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created Aug 14, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (35) | comments 4


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