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How to Enable HTTPS / SSL on WAMP Server

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Why Would I Need HTTPS / SSL on WampServer? The time has come for all websites to migrate to HTTPS. Effective July 2018, Google’s Chrome browser will mark non-HTTPS sites as “not secure”. Google has been pushing webmasters to make the change to non-secure websites for many years now including hinting at small rankings boost. SSL stands for “Secure Sockets Layer” and when a website owner has one, all data passed between web browsers and servers is private and encrypted. WampServer is a great tool for building a website on your local computer but as of right now it does not support HTTPS / SSL out of the box. Building your website from the ground up with HTTPS / SSL in mind can save you a lot of problems when you finally do put your site online. In the tutorial below, I will show you how to set up HTTPS / SSL for WampServer using OpenSSL. Step 1: Download and Install WampServer Wampserver is available in both 32 and 64 bit. Make sure you select the correct installer for your version of W
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Hand Tracking in the Browser using Tensorflow.js and 3 lines of code.

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Handtrack.js library allows you track a user’s hand (bounding box) from an image in any orientation, in 3 lines of code. Here’s an example interface built using Handtrack.js to track hands from webcam feed. Try the  demo here. A while ago, I was really blown away by results from an experiment using  TensorFlow  object detection api to  track hands  in an image. I made the  trained model and source code available , and since then it has been used to prototype some rather interesting usecases ( a tool to help kids spell , extensions to  predict sign language ,  hand ping pong , etc). However, while many individuals wanted to experiment with the trained model, a large number still had  issues  setting up Tensorflow (installation, TF version issues, exporting graphs, etc). Luckily, Tensorflow.js addresses several of these installations/distribution issues, as it is optimized to run in the standardized environment of browsers. To this end, I created Handtrack.js as a library to
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How to download a file using command prompt (cmd) Windows?

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If you’re like most Internet users, you download various types of files now and then. You either download these files with your web browser or some download manager software. Have you ever considered downloading files using the command prompt i.e. CMD? If not, we recommend you to try it. It’s quite interesting apart from being very useful as well. In this article, we’ll show you how to download a file using command prompt aka CMD. How to download a file using command prompt?   There are several useful commands for the Command Prompt and one of them is  bitsadmin . Though bitsadmin has several uses, here we shall limit this article to its role in downloading files only. If you want to read the details about bitsadmin syntax, continue reading this section. Otherwise, you can scroll down to the next section –  Downloading a file .   The syntax of bitsadmin is : BITSADMIN [/RAWRETURN] [/WRAP | /NOWRAP] command   As you know, the parts of the syntax inside the square bra
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The future of Artificial Intelligence: 6 ways it will impact everyday life

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Technology moves at breakneck speed, and we now have more power in our pockets than we had in our homes in the 1990s. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a fascinating concept of science fiction for decades, but many researchers think we’re finally getting close to making AI a reality.  NPR notes that in the last few years, scientists have made breakthroughs in “machine learning,” using neural networks, which mimic the processes of real neurons. This is a type of “deep learning” that allows machines to process information for themselves on a very sophisticated level, allowing them to perform complex functions like facial recognition. Big data is speeding up the AI development process, and we may be seeing more integration of AI technology in our everyday lives relatively soon. While much of this technology is still fairly rudimentary at the moment, we can expect sophisticated AI to one day significantly impact our everyday lives. Here are 6 ways AI might affect us in the futu
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How to Include ThreeJs in Your Projects

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HOW TO INCLUDE three.js IN YOUR PROJECTS There are quite a few different ways to include three.js in your JavaScript application, some of them simple, some of them a little more complex, however, they all boil down to one simple idea: you need to include one (and  only one) of these three files in your project: three.js three.min.js three.module.js You can view them all  on the three.js GitHub repo , which we’ll explore in the next chapter. Each of these files a version of the three.js core, meaning that once you’ve included one of them in your application, you are all ready to get started in creating beautiful 3D scenes. There are two main ways to include these files in your project: include them in a  script tag  in your HTML import them directly into your JavaScript files. We’ll explore how to do in Section Two What’s the Difference Between these Files? The  three.js  file is intended to be included in a  <script>  tag in your  index.html  file, like s
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