Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service now on life support as it stops accepting new users

is no longer accepting new customers for its decades-old Mechanical Turk service, in what is likely a death knell for the pioneering crowdsourcing marketplace. First launched in 2005, Mechanical Turk predates Amazon’s public cloud infrastructure business by a year. It serves as a crowdsourcing marketplace where users can post gigs that […] The post Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service now on life support as it stops accepting new users appeared first on SiliconANGLE .