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Here's what a VPN can't protect you from (but you need to use it)

The abbreviation " VPN " has slowly become established among average Internet users, which is certainly good, but the problem is that people have started to see VPN as the ultimate solution to all problems.

How to convert Latin / Cyrillic translation to UTF8?

The problem with Latin and Cyrillic in the digital age is the compatibility of the software with those letters. Character encoding is generally a problem in the world with all non-English languages. I had a problem with this when I wanted to cast from Plex to Chromecast. I couldn't change the Character encoding in the player so I had to in the translation itself.

Speed ​​up copying of text in Windows!

Today, we can hardly imagine working on a computer without the famous copy/paste option. I believe that you copy and paste some text at least once during the day. Copying and pasting text in Windows is usually done with shortcuts ctrl + ci ctrl + v ( see more useful shortcuts ), and it's fast and efficient enough. But there is a faster way!

AI developer scaled the famous 1895 movie scene to 4K 60fps!

Lately, we can read the news about a new AI achievement almost every day. Just a few days ago I was writing about an AI model that can fix and color old black and white movies ( read ), and now I’m writing about something similar. Namely, AI developer and Youtube Denis Shiryaev used "several neural networks" to scale and improve the famous train scene from 1895 to 4K resolution at 60fps !

This AI can color and fix old videos (video)

Old videos are not of the best quality, they have a lot of noise and ambiguity, and with all that, they have no color. Luckily, artificial intelligence has advanced enough that repairing those videos is now possible.