video conferencing

A West Texas attorney accidentally joined a court hearing with a Zoom filter of a cat turned on—and he couldn’t figure out how to turn it off.

A recent survey finds plastic surgery practices in the U.S. have seen a 60% increase during the COVID-19 pandemic.

First, know your area! Find a quiet space with a simple background, strong WiFi connection and away from family and distractions. Next, pants are a good idea. We’re all for “business on top, party on the bottom,” but the party should at least be leggings or sweatpants! Third, do a quick mirror check before logging in. You don’t want...

Video conferencing is the way work and life get done these days. But it’s not as simple as logging on and saying hello. If you want to look like a pro, you’ve got to do what the pros do. Maria Sansone shows you how.

Google is making its video conferencing tool, Meet, available for free to everyone, the Mountain View-based search giant announced Wednesday and detailed in a blog post.

As the growing phenomenon of zoombombing shows, sudden popularity can tease out previously unforeseen problems. In the case of Zoom, if a conference organizer shares a link in public and doesn’t take steps to limit access, anybody who sees the link can join the call — and do whatever they want on it.

With many parts of the U.S. now almost a month into seemingly open-ended orders to stay at home, the initial novelty of moving life online has begun to wear off. That’s left parents to figure out how to incorporate digital learning, socializing and activity into already-packed schedules, according to NBC News.

A man charged in connection with the deaths of two men in northern Maine has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Thirty-eight-year-old Bobby Nightingale is being held on murder charges stemming from the killings of 25-year-old Allen Curtis and 51-year-old Roger Ellis in August in Castle Hill. The Bangor Daily News reports he has been ordered held without bail pending...

U.S. peace talks with the Taliban are now “dead,” President Donald Trump declared Monday, two days after he abruptly canceled a secret meeting he had arranged with Taliban and Afghan leaders aimed at ending America’s longest war. Trump’s remark to reporters at the White House suggested he sees no point in resuming a nearly yearlong effort to reach a political...

Pinterest, among a gaggle of tech companies planning to go public this year, hopes to raise as much as $1.5 billion in its initial offering of shares. The digital scrapbooking site said in a regulatory filing Monday that it will put about 75 million shares up for sale at a price between $15 and $17 each. That, at the higher...

Police in Duxbury are working to figure out who might have taken a shot at a patrol car.

The widow of a police officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty screamed profanities at her husband’s accused killer as he was led out of court following his arraignment Thursday.

A 20-year-old man accused of shooting and killing a Massachusetts police sergeant and an innocent bystander was indicted Thursday on 11 counts stemming from the incidents on July 15.

A probable cause hearing for a 20-year-old man accused of shooting and killing a Massachusetts police sergeant and innocent bystander last month had to be rescheduled Wednesday due to technical issues.

Revelations that an Amazon Echo smart speaker inadvertently sent a family’s private conversation to an acquaintance highlights some unexpected risks of new voice-enabled technologies. According to Amazon, the fault was an “unlikely” series of inadvertent vocal cues that triggered the speaker, caused it to begin recording and then led it to interpret subsequent conversation as a “send message” request.

A Wakefield, New Hampshire, man has been accused of sexually abusing minors.