Month: May 2020
Facebook creates Workplace Rooms for professional video calls
Last week, Facebook launched Messenger Rooms, a video chat service and potential Zoom competitor. Now, Facebook is bringing video chat to Workplace, its Slack alternative. Today, the company introduced Workplace Rooms, a “virtual meeting space,” wher… Source
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2020 is going virtual
The headline says it all. TechCrunch’s big yearly event, Disrupt, is going fully virtual in 2020. As you can imagine, this is largely due to the impact that the coronavirus has had on the world. But it also gives us a chance to make our event even more accessible to…
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Ghost of Tsushima is a grounded open-world game that aims to honor classic samurai films
When Nate Fox was working on Sly Cooper, a series of stealth games about a master thief who also happens to be a raccoon, he looked around for inspiration on how to make anthropomorphized animals feel more real. This led him to the comic Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai, which…
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Facebook makes big remote work moves with plan for new hubs in Dallas, Denver and Atlanta
In a live-streamed town hall, Mark Zuckerberg gave an overview for what he expects in the near future as Facebook pursues accommodations to keep workers productive and safe during the COVID-19 crisis. The move comes as large tech companies reassess the viability of their iconic Silicon Valley campuses, now empty…
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Vivo explains the X50 Pro’s gimbal-like camera stabilization
Back in late February, Vivo introduced a rather intriguing feature for its APEX 2020 concept phone: a tiny "gimbal-like structure" for the main camera, which was said to provide beefed-up optical stabilization “in the front-back and left-right inclin… Source
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Enjoy some 4K TV with your nature on Samsung’s new outdoor sets
Like most of us you’ve probably been stuck inside for months now. Sitting around, pacing your home, watching a lot of bad television. Would anything possibly be better that finally getting some time outdoors to commune with nature and catch a little ultra high-def television? Up to now, outdoor sets…
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