In response to COVID-19, almost every university has scrambled to move its teaching online. To do this, academics have been…
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Who could have foreseen when the clock ticked over to 1 January 2020 that Zoom, of all tech companies, would see…
Honestly, we don’t know what the world would have done if we didn’t have the internet during this pandemic. Virtual…
Despite Skype being in the video call game for seventeen years now, it’s utterly baffling to us how badly it’s…
A bizarre little Twitter thread has made people realise that there are other ways to conduct a remote business meeting…
Fitbit’s apparently going to make ventilators now? The current pandemic is bringing out the good samaritan in everyone, even tech and hardware companies. Fitbit, which was bought by Google late last year, announced that it will start producing ventilators. You know, to fight the good fight and all that. The company chief James Park told
Dear Parliament, let me tell you about some great meeting software called Teams. It’s made by Microsoft, the same people…
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.
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.
Normally we’d start something like this off by saying ‘Only in South Africa’ but… zoombombing isn’t only in South Africa.…