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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.

I never thought smart home tech was for me. Maybe that’s because my introduction to it was largely centered around my friends incessantly yelling “Hey Google!” whenever they wanted a light turned on ...

For almost a century, psychologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand how humans memorize different types of information, ranging from knowledge or facts to the recollection of ...

Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? That’s usually an encoding problem; your software isn’t reading the data correctly. The good news is that Microsoft Office makes it easy to ...

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 ...

Character.AI said it will soon shut off the ability for minors to have free-ranging conversations, including romantic dialogues, with the startup's AI chatbots. Starting Wednesday, the company will ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Here we explain a little bit about Unicode and why we may encounter UnicodeDecodeError or UnicodeEncodeError exceptions. While much of the world runs on UTF-8 these ...