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Digitallife: Concert industry battles the bots that siphon off tickets
New York City :: NY :: USA | 14 days ago
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As the summer concert season approaches, music fans and the concert industry that serves them have a common enemy in New York...Bots, computer programs used by scalpers, are a hidden part of a miserable ritual that plays out online nearly every week
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Why Does Mobile Advertising Stink? Let Harrison Greenbaum Show You
New York City :: NY :: USA | 15 days ago
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Solve Media picks an easy though apt target to skewer in this video starring comedian Harrison Greenbaum, who riffs about annoying banner ads ("I'm trying to just live my life, and you're throwing signs in my face") and complains that mobile screens
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Blind group slams Captcha security
New York :: NY :: USA | 16 days ago
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Blind Federation slams Captcha security test Captchas are available in both graphic and audio form but can be difficult to interpret The National Federation for the Blind says its members are unable to sign an e-petition calling for printed material
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Captcha Fail Leaves Blind People Unable To Sign Petition To Help The Blind
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 19 days ago
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Thanks in part to a dreaded Captcha code on the White House's petitions website, it's nearly impossible for blind web users to sign a "We The People" petition seeking support for an international treaty intended to help ... the blind. The treaty
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‘Bots' That Siphon Off Tickets Frustrate Concert Promoters
New York City :: NY :: USA | 23 days ago
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May 26, 2013 As the summer concert season approaches, music fans and the concert industry that serves them have a common enemy in New York...Emilio Flores for The New York Times Ticketmaster hired John Carnahan, an expert on machine learning, from
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3 Simple Ways to Make Your Company Mission Matter
New York City :: NY :: USA | 28 days ago
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Getty Mission-based businesses are a different breed. You can't expect your mission to matter if your company doesn't put it front and center. Here, Luis von Ahn, the co-founder of Captcha and most recently, Duolingo, identifies three things mission-
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Could Games Replace CAPTCHA?
Irvine :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Ada Aleksa, Benjamin Blackmer, Tyler Paxton, Steve Burkett. Internet users must replicate to prove their humanity and gain access to sites commonly trolled by Internet robots...Or maybe, like many users confronted with this tedious task, you prove
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Ticketmaster Targets Scalpers in Federal Lawsuit
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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May 1, 2013 Ticketmaster, trying to fight the computer tactics used by some of the most advanced ticket scalpers, has sued 21 people, accusing them of fraud and breach of copyright in circumventing the company's online security system to try to buy
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Up To 14% Of Mobile Traffic Is Controlled By Hackers
Singapore :: Singapore | 1 month ago
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Botnets that try to hack into your online accounts are moving onto mobile phones, according to Solve Media , the company that makes those "captcha" word problems users must type-in to prove they're human. In Q1 2013, 29% of mobile traffic acted "
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The ASI Presidential Debate
San Luis Obispo :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
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April 2013 The four ASI Presidential candidates discussed their campaign platforms at UU Hour on Thursday as part of their race for the office, which will be decided in an election on April 24. Missed the Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) presidential
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