Wed. 08/09 – CAPTCHA Supremacy

Slack announces its biggest ever redesign. Sony signals that the smartphone recession is real and is not getting better anytime soon. Is WeWork circling the drain? Why a Gizmodo editor is suing Apple over Tetris. And guess what? The bots are better at solving CAPTCHAs than you are. Something something, Turing Test.

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Links:

• Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday (The Verge)
• Netflix launches a game controller app for playing games on your TV (TechCrunch)
• Sony Expects Smartphone Rebound Only in 2024 After China Fizzles (Bloomberg)
• WeWork Tumbles After Raising ‘Substantial Doubt’ About Future (Bloomberg)
• Apple's 'Tetris' movie ripped off tech writer's book, lawsuit says (Reuters)
• New ‘Downfall’ Flaw Exposes Valuable Data in Generations of Intel Chips (Wired)
• Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds (The Independent)

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