A viral video of a lawyer on a zoom call appeared, showing a judge, opposing counsel, and a lawyer as a cat. “I’m here live, Judge. I’m not a cat,” the lawyer said.
He was absolutely frustrated by the cat filter, and the judge’s attempts to help him remove the filter. “I’m prepared to go forward with it,” the lawyer said, in a way that recalls Larry David / Arrested Development script-writing.
But that’s not important here. What’s important here is, how can we get that cat?
(more…)Stadia was Google’s in-house game development group, intended to make game streaming mainstream. Like many other things Google attempts, they found out that it’s significantly harder than they imagined initially.
(more…)Gamestop, AMC, Blackberry, and Nokia are all stocks that redditors at r/Wallstreetbets (WSB) identified as stocks that were being shorted by hedge funds, to the point where there were more shorts than stock.
(more…)Imagine you’ve got a mini-split air conditioner. Now, imagine you’re me, and don’t want to have to get up to use a remote control to change temperatures or turn it on.
(more…)If you’re using Zoom or videoconferencing software, you’re familiar with the fact that your iPhone’s camera is excellent, and your computer or webcam are probably horrible.
(more…)Earlier this year, the New York Times ran a story claiming that almost every law enforcement agency in America was able to break into your phone.
A new report from Matthew Green, teacher of cryptography at Johns Hopkins, and his students, Max Zinkus, and Tushar Jois details what they?ve found. ?Authorities don?t need to break encryption in most cases, because modern phone encryption sort of sucks.?
(more…)Suppose you were a voice-over artist, a podcaster, a Twitch streamer, or just wanted to up your audio game when holding Zoom meetings?
You?d need a good microphone, and a good microphone interface.
(more…)BOSS, makers of lower cost car a/v systems, have introduced four new wireless CarPlay receivers. What?s interesting is that they seem to be higher quality than we might normally expect of BOSS.
Here?s why:
Apple has been producing TV shows, like the Emmy-winning The Morning Show, or my personal favorite, Ted Lasso, and distributing them on the AppleTV app on, well, AppleTV devices, iOS devices, and major brand smart TVs. Now, it’s coming to Google’s lastest version of the Chromecast. Why should you care?
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