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It was the cat filter seen around the world: Texas lawyer Rod Ponton haplessly trying to appear in a virtual courtroom while his Zoom showed a morose kitten instead of his face. His worried statement ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Want to make your next quarterly Zoom check-up a little more interesting? Feel like aggravating your ...

Snap Camera, the desktop app of the social media platform Snapchat, has found a new way to excite the users. During Zoom calls, the environment could be boring for them. For that part, a fresh cartoon ...

Like the cat lawyer, you can spice up conference calls using settings in the desktop Zoom app or with external apps like Snap Camera. So you’re interested in becoming a cat for your next Zoom? I can ...

It's probably not the purr-fect way to start an important meeting: firing up your video chat software only to discover you resemble a talking cat. Lawyer Rod Ponton learned this the hard way during a ...

Listen, we’ve all spent way too much time on video calls in the last year-plus, but we’re hanging on to whatever we can to make our time on Zoom (or Teams, or Google Meet) tolerable, if not a little ...

So you’re interested in becoming a cat for your next Zoom? I can show you how to do that. Just make sure you learn how to turn it off, too. A Texas attorney made headlines when he showed up for a ...