Now Microsoft Teams video chats can have custom backgrounds too
One of the great things about Zoom is the ability to change backgrounds. You can use any image you want to cover up the laundry piling up behind you, for instance, or to ensure your privacy in calls with workmates you don’t really know.
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Day: April 10, 2020
‘Call of Duty: Warzone’ already has 50 million players after one month
‘Call of Duty: Warzone’ already has 50 million players after one month
Just a month after launch, Activision’s new battle royal entry Call of Duty: Warzone has topped 50 million players.
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‘Final Fantasy 7 Remake’ is a gamble that paid off
‘Final Fantasy 7 Remake’ is a gamble that paid off
Decades in the making, Square Enix’s refreshed vision of Final Fantasy VII is here.
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How you’ll use Apple and Google’s coronavirus tracking tool
How you’ll use Apple and Google’s coronavirus tracking tool
Earlier today, Apple and Google announced a Bluetooth-based COVID-19 contact tracing platform that could alert people if they’ve been exposed to the novel coronavirus.
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How you’ll use Apple and Google’s coronavirus tracking tool
How you’ll use Apple and Google’s coronavirus tracking tool
Earlier today, Apple and Google announced a Bluetooth-based COVID-19 contact tracing platform that could alert people if they’ve been exposed to the novel coronavirus.
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Apple TV+ originals like ‘Little America’ and ‘For All Mankind’ are available for free right now.
Apple TV+ originals like ‘Little America’ and ‘For All Mankind’ are available for free right now.
In case you’ve already blown through some of the free content streaming from sources like HBO, Comcast and others, Apple is also cracking open its TV+ library. As long as you have a device with the Apple TV app, there are a few series and movies for you to check out at no cost.
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This website replicates the sounds of being in the office again
This website replicates the sounds of being in the office again
Even though I’ve worked from home for more than three years, it can still get lonely at times. My apartment is usually very quiet and almost all of my conversations with my colleagues happen silently over Slack, save for the clatter of my mechanical keyboard.
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Facebook is adding a Quiet Mode that silences push notifications on mobile
Facebook is adding a Quiet Mode that silences push notifications on mobile
Facebook announced an all-new “Quiet Mode” for its main mobile app on Thursday, which will pause “most” push notifications and remind you that it’s turned on when you try to open the software on your phone while the mode is still active.
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Trump’s chloroquine hype is a misinformation problem bigger than social media
Trump’s chloroquine hype is a misinformation problem bigger than social media
Since late March, President Donald Trump has been promoting the antimalarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as treatments for the novel coronavirus.
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Dr. Dre classic ‘The Chronic’ comes to more streaming services on 4/20
Dr. Dre classic ‘The Chronic’ comes to more streaming services on 4/20
Another classic album is finally coming to streaming services, and with particularly good timing at that. Dr.
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Waiter, What’s This Worm Doing in My Sushi
Waiter, What’s This Worm Doing in My Sushi
Waiter, What’s This Worm Doing in My Sushi W. Wayt Gibbs Well, it’s probably there because the odds on it being so have gone way up in the last 40 years. But it’s still much more of a health problem for whales and dolphins than for us.
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Waiter, What’s This Worm Doing in My Sushi
Waiter, What’s This Worm Doing in My Sushi
Waiter, What’s This Worm Doing in My Sushi W. Wayt Gibbs Well, it’s probably there because the odds on it being so have gone way up in the last 40 years. But it’s still much more of a health problem for whales and dolphins than for us.
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Discord beta reduces background noise during your chats
Discord beta reduces background noise during your chats
Discord voice chats are particularly important when the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing many to work and play at home, and there’s now a tool to make sure your ambient home sounds don’t intrude on those chats.
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Zoom is now ‘the Facebook of video apps’
Zoom is now ‘the Facebook of video apps’
Given our uncertain and nightmarish times, I’m going to cut right to it. A lot of us are wondering just how full of shit Zoom is.
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This week’s best deals: NVIDIA Shield TV, the Apple Watch and more
This week’s best deals: NVIDIA Shield TV, the Apple Watch and more
This week brought a variety of deals on things from media streamers to smartwatches to audio production software. Best Buy knocked down the price of the NVIDIA Shield TV to $130, and it discounted the Apple Watch Series 5 by $50.
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Pro baseball players will compete in an online ‘MLB The Show’ league
Pro baseball players will compete in an online ‘MLB The Show’ league
Besides giving people something to watch, the league is for a good cause. The MLB, MLB Players Association and Sony will donate $5,000 on behalf of each player to their team’s local Boys and Girls Club affiliate.
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ASUS Zephyrus G14 review: Ultraportable gaming done right
ASUS Zephyrus G14 review: Ultraportable gaming done right
The Zephyrus G14 is the ideal gaming laptop. It’s something that ASUS has been working towards for years with the impressively thin Zephyrus line. The G14 is incredibly fast; thin and light; and, surprisingly enough, it even packs in a decent amount of battery life.
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LG V60 5G ThinQ review: A compromised phone I like anyway
LG V60 5G ThinQ review: A compromised phone I like anyway
When LG first showed us its new V60 ThinQ, I was immediately over it. Its redesign was nothing radical. It lost the V-series’ hallmark telephoto camera. It featured software that, despite years of attention, still felt poorly thought out.
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You can now buy refurbished Mac Pros from Apple
You can now buy refurbished Mac Pros from Apple
Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro, the world’s most expensive cheese grater — if you were going to use it for that, which you shouldn’t — is now available on Apple’s online refurb store, MacRumors reports.
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You can now buy refurbished Mac Pros from Apple
You can now buy refurbished Mac Pros from Apple
Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro, the world’s most expensive cheese grater — if you were going to use it for that, which you shouldn’t — is now available on Apple’s online refurb store, MacRumors reports.
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