Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? This post shows how to change the character encoding in Excel or ...

Last month, AI companion platform Character.AI announced it would ban users under the age of 18 from having open-ended chats with its bots. The ban begins November 24 and will still allow teens to ...

The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves. By Natallie Rocha and Kashmir Hill Natallie ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains discussion of suicide. Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the US: Call or text 988, the ...

# 1. Create the Java file (forcing ASCII encoding) PS D:\issue> Set-Content -Path DummyFile.java -Value "public class DummyFile {}" -Encoding Ascii # 2. Create the config.xml (with FileLength as a ...

In pgjdbc, strings are always transmitted as UTF-8, regardless of any character set settings on the client or in the JDBC URL. The database still decodes the received bytes according to the client's ...

Main character syndrome is the perception that your life is a story or a movie where you’re the central character. A term that was born on social media, it’s not a true syndrome or mental disorder.

After school, Karandeep Anand often finds his 6-year-old daughter deep in conversation with an AI chatbot as she eats snacks at their kitchen counter. She’s too young to type—let alone have her own ...

Main character syndrome and main character energy originated on social media to refer to a person who behaves as though the protagonist in the story of their life. Main character energy and main ...

Having "main character energy" means acting as if your life is a movie. You're always on the verge of cinematic transformation, with a deeply aesthetic sense of self, perfectly timed lighting, and a ...

Daniela is a freelance writer with two years of experience covering entertainment. She is a senior writer on Collider’s freelance team and has also been published in other platforms, such as Elite ...