web conferencing
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Discord Launches Teen Safety Assist to Create Safer Places to Hang
Discord revealed Teen Safety Assist, a new safety initiative to promote a safer environment for younger users to hang out in. The initiative includes default enabled safety features for teenagers on the app, such as proactive filters and alerts. “As great as all of these amazing updates to Discord are, none of this matters if…
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Zoom Contradicts Its Own Policy About Training AI on Your Data
Zoom updated its Terms of Service in March, spelling out that the company reserves the right to train AI on user data with no mention of a way to opt-out. On Monday, the company said in a blog post that there’s no need to worry about that. Zoom execs swear the company won’t actually train…
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Google is Confusing Us All Again By Combining Meet and Duo into One Video App
I get annoyed by all the jokes people make about Google killing things willy-nilly. I think that’s because I’m so deep into the ecosystem that these kinds of changes usually directly affect me. Google’s latest assassination target is Duo, which is now being combined with Meet into one video-calling app. As much as it frustrates…
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Zoom Is Getting Ready for the Dystopian Hellscape of Working in the Metaverse
Throughout the pandemic, Zoom turned into a verbal shortcut for referencing remote work, helped in part by its easy-to-use software and features tailor-made for meetings. Now that tech companies are clamoring to define and dominate the metaverse, a hybrid of the virtual and physical worlds, Zoom figured it might as well develop tools for getting…