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PlayThru Hopes To Kill Text Captchas With Game-based Authentication
engadget.com 3 weeks, 4 days agoAt their worst, captchas are impossible to decipher; at their best, they're... fun? A startup called Are You a Human has developed PlayThru, an alternative to text-based authentication. Instead of requiring the user to type some blurry, nonsensical word, PlayThru has them play a mini-game, such as dragging and dropping a car into an open parking spot. The startup says this method is more secure than word captchas -- since automated bots have a harder time solving these image-based puzzles -- and more fun, b
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ReCaptcha Founder’s Language Learning Site Duolingo To Open To The Public On June 19
techcrunch.com 1 week agoAt TechCrunch Disrupt New York this morning, Luis von Ahn , the founder of the ambitious free language learning and text translation site Duolingo , announced that the site will come out of private beta on June 19. Duolingo was founded by reCaptcha founder Luis von Ahn in 2011. The site opened its private beta in late 2011 and currently focuses on teaching its users English, Spanish and German. Von Ahn, of course, is well-known for his work on reCaptcha, which Google acquired in 2009. As von Ahn noted today
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