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Are you chatting with a human or a bot? How to identify AI in chat
Online chats are often handled by artificial intelligence today, and at first glance, the responses appear to be from a real person. This is especially true for customer support, where speed and fluency are key. We'll look at how to identify AI in chat, what signs you can use to distinguish it from a human, and where the line of recognition becomes very thin.
What is ransomware and why does it no longer threaten only large companies?
Ransomware attacks are among the most common cyber threats today and are no longer just a concern for large companies. Just one careless click can cost you access to your data. We'll explain what ransomware is, how it works, and why attackers are increasingly targeting average users and smaller businesses.
On this site you can test your internet connection for free.
We recommend you to lower or stop all other internet activities during the test. In other cases the test results are less precise.
Outputs of this test:
- download broadband speed test - what speed are data from the testing server downloaded by
- upload speed - what speed are data to the testing server uploaded by
- web ping - the time needed to send and receive a small amount of data, quite similar to regular ping, but tested by a TCP packet through the HTTP service
How do Internet speed measurements work?
From the user’s perspective, everything is simple. In the web browser, click on the measurement button and wait. Before starting the speed test, it is important to deactivate all tasks, applications and devices that could use the capacity to connect to the Internet. The results would be affected by that and you would not find out anything, or the conclusions would not have the required notification value.
The technical solution and the background of the speed test itself are complex, but to explain it in a few words and very simplistically, the test simulates a situation in which you download or upload data. The measured values are calculated depending on the speed of these transmission. You can test the speed of up to 30 test servers located in geographically different locations.
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10 reasons why your phone is drained sooner than expected
It happens that the battery life decreases faster than one would expect, even when the device is not particularly stressed during the day. Often, it's not a single specific error but a sum of small influences that gradually accumulate. This article explains what has the greatest impact on battery life, when idle draining occurs, and why this can turn into an issue causing the phone not to last even one day.
Wi-Fi on a plane? Yes, but it works differently than at home
Connecting to the internet during a flight is no longer an exception, but it still doesn't work as you're used to at home. In-flight Wi-Fi depends on the technology used, the type of aircraft, and network congestion, and paying for access doesn't always mean fast connection. In this article, we'll explain how in-flight internet works, why it can be slow, and when you can rely on it.
RCS messages: what they are, how they work, and when it's better to turn them off
RCS chat is appearing more frequently in mobile devices, especially with the arrival of iOS 18 and the gradual phasing out of older networks. It is a method of communication that uses the internet, offering higher quality sharing of photos and videos than traditional SMS. We'll explain what RCS means and when it makes sense to keep it enabled.