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Fun Trivia: What does CAPTCHA stand for?

If you're familiar with web design, you probably heard of CAPTCHA and that it's used to reduce spam on online forms.  As the capital letters denote, it does actually stand for something.  That is,  "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart."  Yes, it seems "test to tell" is getting represented as a whole by the one "T" and the "and" is not represented by a letter.  It does clearly describe what CAPTCHA is.  Usually this program... Continue reading
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