Just ask Google, which now has arranged for anyone to search millions of books online and track how many times a particular word has been used through the ages, thus suggesting how much we think about ...

That’s the jokey but important question that blogs looking to protect their readers from spambots often ask their commenters to answer. To prove your inclusion in the species, you decipher a series of ...

Panzee doesn’t talk, but she knows a word when she hears one — even if it’s emitted by a computer with a synthetic speech impediment. That’s not too shabby for a chimpanzee. Raised to recognize 128 ...

Science 12 September 2008: Vol. 321. no. 5895, pp. 1465 - 1468. In last week’s issue of Science magazine, Luis von Ahn and his colleagues write about CAPTCHAs, that is Completely Automated Public ...

There's something just a little insulting about having to prove your humanity to some website by pecking out some distorted words, but Google's rolling out a new, less tedious way for web developers ...

Earlier this week, the Blaze reported on Pastor Wanye Hanson’s alleged comments to TMZ about Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow. Based on TMZ’s initial report as well as subsequent articles from ...

People who use the Internet to talk to friends, set up free e-mail accounts or buy concert tickets are often unknowingly helping to digitize vast libraries of old books and newspapers. That's because ...

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. Or a rogue robot program stealthily gathering personal information from chat rooms or registering for thousands of free e-mail accounts from which to blast ...

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Wednesday that President Donald Trump had distorted his words when alleging the intelligence community "spied" on his campaign. Former ...

What would you do if someone asked you to help transcribe an old book onto a website? Chances are, you’d say no on the basis that you have other things to do, or simply that it just doesn’t sound very ...