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BlackBerry 10 Swipe-based Predictive Text Comes To IPhone
boygeniusreport.com 2 weeks, 3 days agoResearch In Motion recently gave the world a preview of its next-generation BlackBerry 10 software . While investors weren’t terribly impressed with RIM’s efforts and the company’s stock took a hit, developers and users alike were intrigued by several features shown off by the struggling smartphone maker. One such feature is the predictive text implementation in BlackBerry 10, which places word predictions on keys expected to be in the user’s path as he or she types on a smartphone’s virtual keyboard. A swi
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PlayThru Hopes To Kill Text Captchas With Game-based Authentication
engadget.com 4 weeks 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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