Google is working on a new Video Chat panel for Android that lets you apply a variety of visual and audio effects to video calls. These effects include background blur, portrait lighting, portrait ...

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Today’s 2-Minute Tech Briefing looks at Google’s new AI safety layer for Chrome, Anthropic’s move to bring Claude Code directly into Slack, and research showing how even small video call glitches can ...

Video conferencing has now become a part of our daily lives. Whether you're running a remote team, attending online classes, or simply catching up with a friend, a video call is the best way to ...

Google Messages might soon allow users to initiate WhatsApp video calls directly from the app. Users can currently initiate Google Meet video calls, but the service could prefer WhatsApp in the future ...

WeChat, China’s hot chat app — with around 600 million users — today rolled out group video calling for up to nine people, on iOS. The update comes just weeks after WeChat introduced video calling on ...

While the upgrade is technical in nature, its implications are broad. If widely adopted, it could allow an Android user and ...