Google’s brilliant solution to one of the Internet’s most annoying problems If there’s one thing more annoying than passwords, it’s CAPTCHA puzzles that websites use to screen out robots from ...

The Ladd Company/Shaw Brothers/Blade Runner Partnership//Warner Bros. For two decades CAPTCHAs – those online tests to check whether you're a human or a robot – have been a necessary evil, but Google ...

Let's face it, while CAPTCHA adds an additional layer of security for most websites, it does this in an arguably inelegant way. Most of the time, users are forced to squint at, and enlarge, the ...

Google has finally become so good at algorithms that it's cracked its own CAPTCHA technology. By combining the expertise of its Street View and reCAPTCHA whizzes, the search giant has developed a ...

Google’s Street View cameras are scanning the globe from all positions and making sense of all alphabets in the images. The image-to-text conversion algorithm (similar to OCR or optical character ...

Google has announced that it is killing the classic CAPTCHA and replacing it with a new API dubbed 'noCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA', where users simply tick a box to confirm they are human. First introduced to ...