If you’ve been an avid Google Play Music fan, we’re sorry to bring you sad, sad news. Google announced that…
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Finally, someone’s gone and figured it out. Social media company Twitter is letting its employees work from home. Not for…
While literally everyone is taking strain during the current pandemic, it’s an especially trying time for smaller businesses. Lacking the…
The Instagram Lite app was intended for countries with poor data connectivity and smartphones that struggle with processing hundreds of…
It’s hard to believe WhatsApp will be adding support for 50 people on a call when they only recently boosted the maximum participant count from four to eight. Make no mistake, WhatsApp will definitely allow 50 people in one video call…except that they won’t. Yet they will! All through the assistance of Messenger Rooms.
Many new phrases have entered our vocabulary as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. “Zoom fatigue” refers to the mental exhaustion associated with online video conferencing.
Lockdown continues, which means not many of us are getting out much at all. But there’s relief on the horizon. Sadly, not a lessening of restrictions (though that would be great), but literal relief, for the country’s poorest by way of the R350pm COVID relief grant. And, provided those poor folks have access to a smartphone — as much of the country does — nobody has to go out and apply for it.
With much of the world in lockdown, our time spent on video calls has risen rapidly. Video conferencing has expanded from being a tool for business meetings to something we use to socialise, worship, and even date on.
Contact tracing has long been used in response to disease outbreaks. It is simply the idea of asking an infected person who they have been in contact with and then notifying the people in question to try and control the spread of the disease. Some countries have been employing this during the current crisis. The World Health Organisation has consistently said that “tracing every contact must be the backbone of the response in every country”.
Look, we can’t really say whether this’ll be a commonly used feature but just the fact that it’s a thing…