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 ...

An Amazon diagram about the Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform. Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments accounts ...

If you are looking for legitimate part-time employment, Amazon Mechanical Turk can certainly be that, but it will take work to learn how to turk efficiently. To each her own, but completing hundreds ...

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a micro-tasking platform that pairs company’s needing small tasks completed with freelancers looking for extra cash. Here’s how it works. Amazon Mechanical Turk, or “MTurk” ...

Completing surveys and doing data entry for strangers online isn’t just a sideline. It appears to be key for many people to pay the bills. The primary purpose of the survey was to assess Turkopticon, ...

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 ...

Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments accounts without explanation due to an apparent technical problem in the ...

If you watch enough mainstream TV and movies, you might think that hacking into someone’s account requires a huge monitor, special software, and intricate hand ...

“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 ...

As an extension to the Scriptgen tool, we have begun to integrate Amazon's Mechanical Turk as an alternate means of gathering data. We create HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) on Mechanical Turk which ...