Monday links
- Time to kill off CAPTCHA
The brutal truth is that CAPTCHA has long since ceased to be anything more than a minor annoyance to the determined criminal fraternity, who appear to be able to bypass it with relative ease—At PC Pro, Davey Winder says let’s get rid of the anti-spam system that has long since ceased to be effective - How to print anything from anywhere: Your ultimate guide to mobile printing
PCWorld tells how to print your documents while on the go - 1.7M mobile apps analyzed: Users tracked and put at risk, and it’s unjustified
Network security company Juniper Networks investigated 1.7 million mobile apps. It concluded that free apps cost us our privacy, expose us unnecessarily, and most app permissions are unjustified—Violet Blue at ZDNet - If you think your car is smart and connected now, just wait
Cars are becoming a platform for connecting their occupants to their data, their cloud services, to their auto maker, to other cars. If you think you’re car’s smart and connected now, just wait till you put it on your data plan—Barb Darrow at GigaOm - IBM’s Watson Hits Medical School
Famous supercomputer will interact with students and doctors at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University to learn medical concepts — then it might do some teaching—Ken Terry at InformationWeek - The end of landlines: No phone numbers and no international calling charges
Most of us already live in a world where voice minutes are moot. But what about a world where international long-distance costs don’t matter, or phone numbers are rendered completely irrelevant? All of these are relics of the circuit-switched copper phone network, and if AT&T gets its way those things could all go by the wayside. We’ll enter the VoIP future and drag everyone who isn’t already making Skype calls or subscribing to digital voice lines with us—GigaOm
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