AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

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Simon Sharwood / The Register: AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement — Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts — Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers …

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