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 ...

Google is making changes to its reCaptcha system: distorted text images are out, while numbers and more-adaptive, puzzle-based authentication checks are in. The change is necessary because text-only ...

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 ...

Bots account for nearly half of global internet traffic, increasing the need for online security. Whether browsing on an ...

One of the most frustrating things you’ll encounter on the modern web are those boxes of squiggly, distorted text you are suppose to decipher to prove you aren’t a spam bot signing up for an email ...

DETROIT -- Are You a Human, a Detroit-based startup that designs simple games used to verify human interaction on Web sites, today announced its game-based human authentication tool, PlayThru.

As someone who has worked in cybersecurity for years, it’s been fascinating to watch the evolution of CAPTCHA. Whilst you’re probably familiar with the acronym, you may not know that CAPTCHA stands ...

We've all been there: You click on a website and are immediately directed to respond to a series of puzzles requiring you to identify images of buses, bicycles and traffic lights before you can go any ...

Ben Khalesi covers the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday tech at Android Police. With a background in AI and data science, he enjoys making technical topics approachable for those ...