Forget having to type those barely legible letters and numbers. — -- There's now an easier way to prove to Google that you're not a robot. Anyone who has ever spent several attempts trying to ...

The “CAPTCHA” has infuriated web users for years: It’s that login test that asks you to type in a hard-to-read sequence of letters or numbers in order to prove are not a robot. Get one letter wrong ...

CAPTCHAs, the distorted word challenges issued by websites to get you to prove you’re not a spambot, are about to get a major makeover. Yesterday, Google announced on its Online Security Blog that it ...

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Instead of tasking users with deciphering distorted text, Google's new CAPTCHA application programming interface merely asks users to state their humanity or admit they are in fact robots. Google is ...

Last time you signed for an account for nearly anything online, you were probably faced with the dreaded reCAPTCHA widget: A box featuring two (or sometimes more!) wiggly, obscured, scrambled looking ...

For years, Google has used the simple system of distorted text CAPTCHAs to determine whether users were humans or robots. Robots used to be unable to decipher distorted text, so they always failed the ...

CAPTCHA was developed by AltaVista in 1997 to eliminate bots trying to add spam URLs to search engines. It is said that introduction of CAPTCHA was able to prevent more than 90% of URL addition by bot ...

For anyone tired of squinting at distorted words and images when trying to leave a comment on a website, buy tickets for a gig, or register for social media sites, Google has a solution. The internet ...

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