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Zoom Now Supports Webinars up to Whopping 1 Million Viewers

Zoom Webinars can support a million participants for a cool $100,000.

Gadgets Dua Rashid Aug 22

When Video Chat Is the Only Thing Holding Your Family Together

Lizmarie Oropeza imagined that when her 17-month old foster son, Caden, hit his milestones—pointing, learning to walk, speaking his first words—his biological family would be able to celebrate alongside her. Then coronavirus hit. In Oropeza’s home-state of Connecticut, visitation between families and children in the child welfare system has come to a halt under stay-at-home…

Tech News Isobel Whitcomb Jul 1

Was That So Hard, Zoom?

Video chat service Zoom will finally add end-to-end encryption to calls placed by users on the free version of its service, weeks after announcing it would only be available to premium users who shelled out for the privilege. In April, Zoom faced a shareholder lawsuit alleging that the service boasted it used true end-to-end encryption,…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Jun 17

Alleged Drug Dealer Sentenced to Death by Hanging Via Zoom in Singapore

Singapore’s Supreme Court sentenced a man to death via Zoom video chat on Friday, according to a report from the Strait Times. It’s believed to be the second time that a death sentence has been handed down this year over the video service, which has seen a dramatic increase in use since the global coronavirus…

Tech News Matt Novak May 20

Verizon Closes Deal for BlueJeans, the AOL of Video Conferencing Apps

With most of the U.S. quarantined and many people working at home, Verizon has officially finalized its acquisition of video conferencing platform BlueJeans. For anyone who’s lost track of the myriad of video communication apps such as Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, Lifesize, and others, Bluejeans is yet another teleconferencing service designed to help people and…

Tech News Sam Rutherford May 18

Discord Becomes an Even Better Zoom Alternative For Gamers with the Addition of 1-Button Video Chat

Discord has already taken a few steps to help people stay connected during The Quarantine, but with its latest update, Discord may have just given gamers a true replacement for competing video chat apps like Zoom, Hangouts, and others. In an update that is available today on desktop, web browsers, and iOS (with Android coming soon),…

Tech News Sam Rutherford May 15

For the Love of God, Don’t Use Facebook’s Video Chat Rooms

Facebook is now rolling out a Messenger Rooms platform that will allow video calls to simultaneously host up to 50 people, up from eight in existing Messenger video conferences. According to CNBC, the initial launch will feature a lower capacity than that, but the company is working to hit the target of 50 in the…

Social Media Tom McKay Apr 24

Facebook Portal Is Now Mildly More Useful

There’s a lot of issues with Facebook Portal, but one of them was the lack of apps and web browser at launch. Privacy concerns aside, you just couldn’t really make use of the smart display aside from its cool-yet-creepy video calls. Today, Facebook is rolling out some updates to fix that. For starters, ABC News…

Social Media Victoria Song Dec 14

Snapchat Makes Adding Friends Easy With Personalized URLs

Adding friends on Snapchat can be a pain in the ass: You have to open the app, pull down the menu bar to reveal your personalized Snapcode, have your friend open their Snapchat app, focus the camera on your (more than likely) smudged screen, and have them take a photo. Now, you can just send…

Tech News Michael Nunez Jan 28

Leaked Snapchat Code Hints at New Voice and Video Chat Features

Snapchat’s in for a serious makeover, if these screenshots discovered in the mobile app’s existing code are to be believed. A handful of developers at Snapprefs, a group unaffiliated with Snapchat that helps users add more features to the app via the Xposed framework, dug up the screenshots in Snapchat’s code and leaked them to…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Jan 25

Babies Can Tell the Difference Between FaceTime Grandma and YouTube Elmo

It’s a dilemma for parents in the digital age: We know we’re not supposed to prop our four-month-olds in front of an iPad and let them watch Dora until their eyes bleed. But technology has made the rules of screens complicated—what if Gramps and Gran want to FaceTime? Turns out babies are smart enough to…

Tech News Alissa Walker Sep 14

Mega Just Launched End-to-End Encrypted Audio and Video Chat

Kim Dotcom & Co. has launched a new audio and video chat service, which it hopes will provide stiff competition for Skype. It certainly has one major selling point up its sleeve: it offers end-to-end encryption for all communications. The new service is in beta, but any registered Mega user can try it for free…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 22

Firefox Hello Does Account-Free Video Chat

Parent-calling-avoiders of the world have never had it worse: Skype, Hangouts and FaceTime are all stellar and free programs that mean that you’ve got basically no reason for ignoring forgetting your parents’ wedding anniversary. But Firefox wants to add to that list, with a video-calling client that doesn’t even need an account. Firefox Hello is…

Tech News Chris Mills Oct 17

Apple May Have Figured Out How to Make FaceTime Work With Bad Internet

A new invention filed by Apple with the US Patent and Trademark Office is so simple but clever that it’s amazing it’s not been done before: Cook & Co. suggests that it could insert doctored or pre-recorded images into FaceTime chats on crappy connections to keep the conversation smooth. The patent, called “Video transmission using…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 16

Skype Says It Can Support Holographic Video Calls

For decades, we’ve been waiting for oh-so-futuristic hologram technology to make the leap from Star Wars movies to our living rooms, and it hasn’t. It sounds like it’s right around the corner, though, after Skype announced that it had developed 3D video chat technology in the lab. The Microsoft executive responsible for Skype recently disclosed…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Aug 29

AT&T Is Finally Going to Let Everyone Video Chat Over Data

AT&T has caught a lot of flak for being excruciatingly picky about what apps can do video chat over data on what kind of plans. It’s been equal parts annoying and confusing for everyone involved. But now, the carrier is about to simplify it by letting everyone do everything by the end of this year.…

Tech News Eric Limer May 20

Would You Pay For FaceTime Over 3G?

When Apple launched iOS 6, it was happy to announce that FaceTime was finally going to be available over 3G. Great! But now, 9to5mac is reporting, based on leaked screenshots, that using FaceTime over AT&T’s 3G network may require a paid-for contract bolt-on. Not so great. https://gizmodo.com/ios-6-all-the-new-features-coming-soon-to-your-iphone-5917359 Apparently, attempting to use FaceTime on iPhone over…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jul 17

Report: Facebook Messenger App Could Get Video Chat Upgrade Soon

It’s rumored that Facebook is extending its standalone Messenger app for iPhone to include video chat capabilities, and 9to5mac reports that the current beta version is “smooth most of the time”. It’s claimed that the app is currently undergoing testing on Facebook’s internal servers, and it is thought that it will be launched ahead of…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe May 2

Hang Out with NFL Draft Picks on Google+ Because That’s Not Awkward

Like the horror movie villain that never dies, Google+ Hangouts is still somehow finding a way to slither into our collective mind even after we’ve forgotten about it. This time, the expected top two NFL picks in this year’s draft, Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III, will host Google+ Hangouts on their teams page. The…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 26

FaceTime Is Making People Hate Their Faces So Much They’re Getting Plastic Surgery

No—not an Onion article. A Washington, DC-area plastic surgeon is being hit with patients rendered so self-conscious by their video chatting visages that they’re asking for phone-specific facelifts. Technology is great except when it’s so, so awful. Of course it’s not fair to blame the tech alone, here—you have to include the horrible vain people…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 27

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Zoom Now Supports Webinars up to Whopping 1 Million Viewers

When Video Chat Is the Only Thing Holding Your Family Together

Was That So Hard, Zoom?

Alleged Drug Dealer Sentenced to Death by Hanging Via Zoom in Singapore

Verizon Closes Deal for BlueJeans, the AOL of Video Conferencing Apps

Discord Becomes an Even Better Zoom Alternative For Gamers with the Addition of 1-Button Video Chat

For the Love of God, Don’t Use Facebook’s Video Chat Rooms

Facebook Portal Is Now Mildly More Useful

Snapchat Makes Adding Friends Easy With Personalized URLs

Leaked Snapchat Code Hints at New Voice and Video Chat Features

Babies Can Tell the Difference Between FaceTime Grandma and YouTube Elmo

Mega Just Launched End-to-End Encrypted Audio and Video Chat

Firefox Hello Does Account-Free Video Chat

Apple May Have Figured Out How to Make FaceTime Work With Bad Internet

Skype Says It Can Support Holographic Video Calls

AT&T Is Finally Going to Let Everyone Video Chat Over Data

Would You Pay For FaceTime Over 3G?

Report: Facebook Messenger App Could Get Video Chat Upgrade Soon

Hang Out with NFL Draft Picks on Google+ Because That’s Not Awkward

FaceTime Is Making People Hate Their Faces So Much They’re Getting Plastic Surgery

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