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 ...

Google has rolled back a recent release of its reCaptcha captcha script after a bug caused the service to no longer work on Firefox for Windows. Yesterday, BleepingComputer received multiple reports ...

The move gives Google at first a reliable Web fraud prevention tool. ReCAPTCHA's technology asks users to identify squiggly letter images a computer would have trouble interpreting, thus increasing ...

Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google is expanding the availability of reCAPTCHA, and the verification technology will now be able to, for the first time, protect payments. Jess Leroy, Google senior ...

Google today acquired reCAPTCHA, a tiny firm originally started as a project of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. CAPTCHAs are those funny little stretched out text images ...

When AI can "prove it's human" — and CAPTCHAs exist mainly to distribute malware and steal users' time — Google should step up and get rid of CAPTCHAs. Are you a robot? Google really, really wants to ...

"Tesla vision AI could really crush these Google 'not a bot' tests lol," Elon Musk tweeted Wednesday. He was referring to reCAPTCHA tests, which ask you to identify objects to prove you're a human.

Google will buy ReCAPTCHA, a company that provides CAPTCHAs to help protect more than 100,000 Web sites from spam and fraud. Financial terms were not disclosed. CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public ...