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Zoom says the phone number is necessary to help it prevent abuse over the video conferencing service. A beta will roll out next month.
5 years, 11 monthsMicrosoft Teams also now lets people schedule meetings and send out invitations in advance, while free users will be able to turn on the 'live captioning' function.
5 years, 11 monthsThe company is creating a system that'll enable Zoom to block a video meeting participant based on geography in order to comply with Chinese government censorship requests.
5 years, 11 monthsNow up to 16 people can be seen in a tiled layout while also placing the presentation in its own large tile.
5 years, 11 monthsThe app currently offers end-to-end encrypted video calls, but only between two users. Now the team behind Signal wants to add encrypted group video calls.
5 years, 11 months'Zoom's Trust and Safety team can, if they have a strong belief that the meeting is abusive, enter the meeting visibly and report it if necessary,' according to security expert Alex Stamos, who has been advising the company.
5 years, 11 monthsThe free service will let you create virtual rooms to host meetings with up to 50 participants. You can now create the rooms on your Facebook Newsfeed or via the Messenger app.
6 yearsPrivate investment firm Ethos Capital has been trying to buy the .org registry from the Internet Society for $1.1 billion. But on Thursday, ICANN rejected the deal.
6 yearsGoogle built Meet for secure business meetings, but has re-engineered the service to offer a secure video service for everyone as long as they have a Google account.
6 yearsAs the messaging service reaches 400 million users per month, it intends to start competing with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet by offering secure group video calls as a feature.
6 years, 1 monthThe change will make Google Meet a bit more competitive against Zoom in the war for enterprise video conferencing users.
6 years, 1 monthIn December, Zoom was attracting a mere 10 million daily users. Now at 300 million, Zoom details plans to improve the video-conferencing service’s encryption standard.
6 years, 1 monthVideo call quality is improving, you can take photos, talk to a group of more than 12 people, and save your AR-enhanced video and voice messages forever.
6 years, 1 monthThe Avatarify software works by taking a still image of the target you want to deepfake, say Elon Musk, and bringing the picture to life using your own facial movements
6 years, 1 monthA new piece from Rolling Stone magazine suggests Zoom is trying to crack down on digital orgies on the video conferencing service. But this probably won't be easy to do, considering the company's own privacy policies.
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