Academics from UK and China have developed a new machine learning algorithm that can break text-based CAPTCHA systems with less effort, faster, and with higher accuracy than all previous methods. This ...

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 ...

A couple years ago, Google kicked off an experiment that included house numbers from Google Street View in reCAPTCHAS, the means by which websites reduce spam. Today on the Google Online Security blog ...

It may seem like an unnecessary hurdle while you're online shopping, but Captcha tests are a key way that websites ensure online security. The tests, which ask you to identify words or pictures, are ...

Google's next-generation ReCaptcha algorithm for Web sites will be invisible, will require no interaction, and will have the ability to tell humans from bots in real-time. The company built a landing ...

CAPTCHA images used for human verification can now be solved by machines. Google has developed a new system that is capable of solving its own CAPTCHA tests used to verify whether a visitor to a ...