Chat has been a workplace tool for many years, but since COVID-19, the use of this tool is only growing. Just look at the growth of Slack: At the end of its 2020 fiscal year, it had 110,000 paid ...

If you wish to use your smartphone for video chat with a friend, you may have questions. Can an Android smartphone be FaceTimed by an iPhone? Can individuals who own various phone manufacturers engage ...

If you ever wanted to video chat with 16 of your closest friends and family all at once, you can now do that and more thanks to a new Snapchat feature announced on Tuesday, April 3. In today’s ...

Instagram is rolling out new features left and right this year (or so it seems). The video and photo sharing app will continue the trend with the launch of Video Chat for Instagram Direct available on ...

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 ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...

Coronavirus has many people working and keeping in touch with friends and co-workers from home. Here are two popular video chat options for connecting. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a slew of requests and orders to stay home and work remotely as much as possible, in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. All that isolation ...

For many of us, video calls are a crucial part of both work and personal life, but lots of people still forget to take a few simple steps for the best possible experience. From nailing the lighting ...

A pandemic has taken over the world, but people are still dating. Today, Hinge is launching a new feature, called Date from Home, that the team thinks will make it easier to transition the texting ...

You have to actually get work done, not just video call all day, but apps like Zoom want to take over your screen. Remote workers who need to stay in touch while staying productive are forced to ...