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08.18.18

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Bots on Amazon's task service may be souring psych studies

Mechanical Turk may need more safeguards to be used as a scientific tool.

By J. Fingas, 08.18.18

11.22.16

Fake news sites are using Amazon to hire their writers

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Fake news sites are using Amazon to hire their writers

Don't you dare call it "reporting."

By A. Tarantola, 11.22.16

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08.10.15

Microsoft attempts to teach computers how to make a funny

Can computers figure out what makes a cartoon funny?

By A. Bouman, 08.10.15

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06.24.15

Amazon makes it more expensive to get people to do stuff for you

Mechanical Turks are getting pricier.

By D. Cooper, 06.24.15

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12.03.14

Amazon's Mechanical Turk workers want to be treated like humans

Amazon's Mechanical Turk service is all about using humans to perform computer-like tasks, such as...

By J. Fingas, 12.03.14

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06.15.14

Want to hijack people's PCs? Pay them a few cents

Apparently, hackers wanting to control PCs are wasting their time with elaborate botnets and vulne...

By J. Fingas, 06.15.14

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08.02.13

OpenGlass uses Google Glass to identify objects for the visually impaired (video)

Dapper Vision's OpenGlass project sees Google Glass' camera as useful for more than just hands-fre...

By J. Fingas, 08.02.13

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04.25.12

DIY 'Descriptive Camera' captures images, prints out prose

Have you ever wished that cameras could capture not only an image of the scene in front of them, b...

By T. O'Brien, 04.25.12

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01.19.09

Belkin pleads for mercy over paid Amazon reviews deception

Remember how Michael Bayard, a Belkin Business Development representative, was apparently hiring pe...

By Thomas Ricker, 01.19.09

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01.17.09

Belkin rep hiring folks to write fake reviews on Amazon?

Back in our day, if you weren't busy walking up uphill both ways, you'd write your own dang fake re...

By P. Miller, 01.17.09

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Mechanicalturk

Bots on Amazon's task service may be souring psych studies

Fake news sites are using Amazon to hire their writers

Microsoft attempts to teach computers how to make a funny

Amazon makes it more expensive to get people to do stuff for you

Amazon's Mechanical Turk workers want to be treated like humans

Want to hijack people's PCs? Pay them a few cents

OpenGlass uses Google Glass to identify objects for the visually impaired (video)

DIY 'Descriptive Camera' captures images, prints out prose

Belkin pleads for mercy over paid Amazon reviews deception

Belkin rep hiring folks to write fake reviews on Amazon?

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