08.18.18 Internet 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 save Save share
11.22.16 11.22.16 in Internet Fake news sites are using Amazon to hire their writers Don't you dare call it "reporting." By A. Tarantola, 11.22.16 save Save share View
08.10.15 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 save Save share View
06.24.15 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 save Save share View
12.03.14 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 save Save share View
06.15.14 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 save Save share View
08.02.13 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 save Save share View
04.25.12 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 save Save share View
01.19.09 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 save Save share View
01.17.09 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 save Save share View
