LJ Rich spends a week trying to earn a living from casual crowdwork. Crowdworking is growing fast. Companies can now call on workers from all over the world to collaborate on huge tasks while simply ...

Where you live may no longer be a factor in finding a great job. If your job can be done on a computer, chances are it can be done remotely, “in the cloud.” As more and more businesses and ...

Crowdworking, where small tasks that computers can’t handle are outsourced to human workers online, is one way to teach algorithms how to recognize faces, places, and context. And with machine ...

Eager to make extra money on the side, Washington, D.C., resident Paula Alves Silva turned to a gig emblematic of the digital age: She recorded sentences read aloud in the comfort of her home to help ...

Willow Garage's Heaphy Project allowed remote users to control this robot and carry out tasks using just a web browser Whether it's the uncomfortable image of a low-paid army of workers shuffling onto ...

Harry K. sits at his desk in Vancouver, Canada, scanning sepia-tinted swirls, loops and blobs on his computer screen. Every second or so, he jabs at his mouse and adds a fluorescent dot to the image.

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Crowdworking is growing fast. Companies can now call on workers from all over the world to collaborate on huge tasks while simply sitting at their home computer. So how much money can you make at your ...