Amazon on Wednesday rolled out new features to its Mechanical Turk web service designed to expand its appeal to a broader set of businesses. Mechanical Turk is a work marketplace that can be used to ...
The workers of Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s on-demand micro-task platform, say they have encountered mutilated bodies, graphic videos of botched surgeries, and what appeared to be child pornography. They ...
Volunteers are using Mechanical Turk, an Amazon.com Web service, to comb over pictures from Google Earth in hopes of finding missing adventurer Steve Fossett Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk is enlisting ...
“The Turk” was a famous hoax perpetrated in 1769 by Wolfgang von Kempelen. According to the Wikipedia article on “The Turk” the hoax consisted of a “maplewood cabinet 4 feet long by 2 feet deep and 3 ...
Shamik Ghosh had been picking up tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk for several months when he logged on in winter 2010 and saw a perplexing request: Someone wanted him to act out a series of Winter ...
Prolific, a U.K.-based startup that wants to make it easier to conduct online research, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. Founded in 2014 by Ekaterina Damer and Phelim Bradley, doctoral ...
Missing aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett is lost somewhere in 10,000 square miles of Nevada desert. A traditional and comprehensive rescue effort has been in progress for days, but it is difficult ...
Pete Buttigieg's campaign hired gig workers using Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a platform notorious for low pay. The decision appears at odds with Buttigieg's campaign message that gig workers deserve ...
In a fascinating post, Twitter revealed last week that it is hiring workers through the latter to help classify Twitter trends and bring context to incidents that are becoming popular quickly. Twitter ...
Amazon's automated human intelligence service, Mechanical Turk, has become more useful to a general audience. To use the service in the past required advanced programming skills. Now Amazon has ...
Prolific, a U.K.-based startup that wants to make it easier to conduct online research, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. The round is co-led by Silicon Valley-based Pioneer Fund, and Altair ...