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 ...

CAPTCHAs are those now ubiquitous challenges you encounter to prove that you’re a human and not a bot when you go to log in to many websites. As a computer scientist, I see CAPTCHAs as an effective ...

Google is today announcing an improved version of CAPTCHA that it’s calling the ‘NoCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA.’ While it sounds like a mouthful, the new service has some great benefits for users. We’ve known ...

Captchas are annoying, but at some point they were a necessary evil to maintain security. When botmasters figured out a way to break into the system, however, captchas didn't end up just irritating ...