Google Meet is working on several new features that can keep up with the competition, including adding images or blurring backgrounds to video calls. 9to5 Google reported. As on the competing video conferencing platforms Zoom and Microsoft Teams, users can either choose their own picture or choose from several standard …

The American Red Cross is testing all donated blood for novel coronavirus antibodies and will use this information to learn more about the spread of COVID-19. They will also contact donors again to find out how long their antibodies will last. If someone has antibodies to the novel coronavirus, this …

After years of growing dissatisfaction, the moderation problems of social platforms are beginning to end up on the bottom line. Last week, Facebook struggled to curb an increasing boycott of advertisers, with large companies like Unilever, Diageo, and Coca-Cola abandoning all advertising on the platform for the rest of the …

Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, visits the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation research facility in Masiphumelele on the southern peninsula of Cape Town, South Africa on February 7, 2020. (Photo by the Gates Foundation). Mark Suzman, the new CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation …

Amazon today announced the general availability of multi-capability skills for Alexa, a way to combine smart home and custom Alexa apps into individual, unified voice apps. Starting this week, developers will be able to publish and maintain an Alexa app that enables both the Internet of Things and third-party features …

Start of self-driving delivery Nuro announced a partnership today to deliver customers recipes and other important things. The pilot, which will be limited to the Houston metropolitan area from June, will serve people with three postcodes near the CVS location on Bissonnet St. in Bellaire, according to Nuro. Users of …

Motorola has announced that the regular Edge – the cheaper sibling of its recently released flagship Edge Plus – will cost $ 699.99, which is $ 300 less than the $ 999.99 Edge Plus. However, there is no release date outside of the previously announced "Summer" window. Motorola has also …

Disney is late Mulan For the second time this year, the film was postponed from July 24th to August 21st. The move follows Warner Bros.'s decision to postpone that of Christopher Nolan principle for the second time from July 31 to August 12. Disney doesn't want to be the first …

I've been looking through Studio Ghibli films now that they're on HBO Max, and I looked around last week Kiki's delivery service for the first time. It's a remarkably charming movie, and it shows Ghibli going a long way to find out what the storyline is after the extremely bare …

Manny Medina, CEO of Outreach, speaks at the GeekWire Summit 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) "I love the man who can smile in trouble, who can gain strength from need and who can become brave by thinking." Executives find inspiration in a variety of ways as they lead companies …