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Dealing With Mental Health Crisis One Zoom Call at a Time
Sheriff’s department officers in one Illinois county are hitting the streets with tablets that can connect people in distress immediately with mental health professionals
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Mother Shot and Killed by Toddler While on Zoom Call
A toddler found an unsecured, loaded handgun inside an apartment and fatally shot its mother while she was on a work-related video call, police in central Florida said.
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What is ‘Zoom Dysmorphia' and How Can I Combat It?
For people who struggle with their body image, video calls can exacerbate those issues even further. INSIDER reporter Anna Medaris says there needs to be a larger conversation about which meetings need to be camera-on and which don’t to protect employees’ mental health.
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WATCH: Ohio Lawmaker Caught Driving on Zoom While State Considers Bill on Distracted Driving
Ohio State Sen. Andrew Brenner attended a virtual meeting of the Ohio Controlling Board while driving his car on May 3, the same day fellow state senators introduced a bill to instate strict penalties for distracted driving.
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Stanford Study Reveals ‘Zoom Fatigue' Worse for Women Than Men
A new Stanford University study reveals that women are suffering “Zoom fatigue” more than their male counterparts.
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Colleges Targeted With Racist Zoom Bombings as White Supremacy Spikes
When Zoë Washington logged on to a video call for her finance class at American University, everything seemed normal. But a few minutes into the lecture, someone with their camera off joined the call and started yelling racial slurs.
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‘Zoom Zombies' Zoning Out Behind the Wheel After Video Calls, Auto Safety Experts Warn
As millions of Americans spend hours at a time in videoconferences — and then hop in their car — many are struggling to maintain their concentration, making experts fear this zoning out due to cognitive overload could be contributing to a surge in roadway deaths
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Can't Stop Staring At Yourself in that Zoom Call? Blame Zoom Fatigue
It’s become all too familiar these days: the dreaded video meeting. You log in to what feels like your hundredth Zoom meeting of the day. You do the obligatory greeting and wave. And then you mute your mic. Then, no matter how hard you try to pay attention to whatever your boss is presenting, your eyes will not cooperate and...
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Why Those Zoom Conference Meetings Are Stressing Us All Out
If you’ve caught yourself staring at your own image during a Zoom meeting you’re not alone. It’s just one reason Zoom is stressing us all out.
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Zoom, Social Distance, ‘Blursday': The Coronavirus Has Changed How We Speak
Coronavirus has changed just about everything in our world, including the words and phrases we know and how we use them. As stress increased in 2020, our vocabulary changed. These linguists and sociologists explain why.
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As If Award Shows Couldn't Get More Awkward, Enter the Zoom Golden Globes
As one of the first major awards shows coming out of the pandemic it was sure to be a Golden Globes telecast like no other. And as such there were bound to be a few well… weird moments mixed in with the memorable ones. Here are some of the more standout moments from the 2021 Golden Globes.
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Zoom Gone Wrong: Congressman Goes Upside For Meeting
A day after an internet filter turned an attorney into a cat, Minnesota Republican Congressman Tom Emmer showed up not as a cat, but an upside-down floating head during a virtual meeting of the House Financial Services Committee
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Can't Find That Cat Filter? You're Not Alone
That specific, adorable filter may be tough to find for anyone looking to replicate the viral moment.
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‘I'm Not a Cat': Filter Makes Lawyer Look Like Cat in Court
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.
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From Zoom to Quibi, the Tech Winners and Losers of 2020
We streamed, we Zoomed, we ordered groceries and houseplants online, we created virtual villages while navigating laptop shortages to work and learn from home.
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Get Lost 2020: Some Things to Leave Behind, With Caveats
Zoom, Zoom and Zoom. Masks, masks and masks. Sourdough starter and short-order cooking. In these “troubled times,” in our sweat pants and the isolation we endure “out of an abundance of caution,” there isn’t much not to be over as 2020 comes to a longed for halt.
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A Unique Recipe for Healing: Bill Murray and a Biblical Text
A group of acclaimed actors staged an online reading of a religious text with remarkable relevance to the current moment: the Book of Job
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Vaccine News Fuels Return to Lavish Weddings as Couples Hope to Say ‘I Don't' to Zoom Ceremonies
The coronavirus and strict new mandates limiting travel and public gatherings derailed thousands upon thousands of wedding weekends, putting a once-burgeoning wedding industry in an ongoing state of flux. NBC News spoke with a half-dozen wedding industry insiders who said that among the themes to emerge in 2020 are the rise of micro-weddings, the death of destination weddings, the growing…
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Zoom Is Getting Rid of 40-Minute Meeting Limit on Thanksgiving
Zoom is making sure Thanksgiving doesn’t get cut short for families who can’t be together on the holiday this year.
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Apart But Together: Tips for a Cozier Zoom Thanksgiving
We all know Thanksgiving is going to look different this year