Amazon's Mechanical Turk service is all about using humans to perform computer-like tasks, such as identifying objects and transcribing videos. However, those workers are tired of being treated like ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Last week I described my experiences using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service to transcribe audio recordings of oral histories I’ve collected. As I explained in that post, it appears that I ended up ...

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk human computing system is a handy way to get repetitive tasks done cheaply, quickly, and in ways that code can’t compete with. But is the Turk being used to perpetrate massive ...

Inside the weird, wild, low-wage world of Mechanical Turk. The computer showed a photo of what looked like a school board meeting. My job was to rate it on a scale of 1 to 5 for 23 different qualities ...

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 ...