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Google Goes Captcha One Better 
Wired News | by John C Abell | Fri, Apr 17
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PARIS — Google has put a new spin on the CAPTCHA, a way of helping Web sites distinguish between human visitors and bots: It wants people to tell it which way is up in a series of randomly rotated images, a task that humans find easy and computers difficult.
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