Abstract: The potential of Edge and IoT applications encompasses realms like smart cities, mobility solutions, and immersive technologies. Yet, the actualization of these promising applications stumbles upon a fundamental impediment: the prevailing cloud data management technologies are often hosted on remote data centers. This…

Abstract:Since about 2003, CAPTCHAs have been widely used as a barrier against bots, while simultaneously annoying great multitudes of users worldwide. As their use grew, techniques to defeat or bypass CAPTCHAs kept improving, while CAPTCHAs themselves evolved as well, becoming increasingly difficult to solve for both bots and…