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 ...

Absorbing reCAPTCHA, the word-verification Internet security organization, was a natural progression for the Google Book Project. The CATPCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers ...

It’s been just over a couple years since Google took a big step forward in simplifying their free human verification service with their No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA format. Instead of having to fight with ...

If you’ve signed up for any new web services in the past few years, you’ve probably encountered a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) or two. A CAPTCHA ...

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google has figured out that there’s an easier way to deter bots on the ...

If you’ve ever submitted a form on the internet (and who hasn’t?), chances are you’ve had to transcribe a series of blurry letters and digits to a blank box. It’s a form of challenge-response testing ...

The move gives Google at first a reliable Web fraud prevention tool. ReCAPTCHA's technology asks users to identify squiggly letter images a computer would have trouble interpreting, thus increasing ...

Google has released a reCAPTCHA API for Android, a first for the mobile applications. Google announced today that it has made a new reCAPTCHA API available for Android. The API is part of Google Play ...

ReCAPTCHA is a free offering from Google to protect webmasters against robots and bots designed to propagate spam and abuse online services. Based on the Turing Test, reCAPTCHA uses puzzles or logic ...

Google's “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” initiative, more commonly known as CAPTCHA, has been providing security services to many websites for several ...