Microsoft boosting Teams features for work-from-home users

Microsoft Teams has become a vital tool for many remote workers. The collaboration and video calling suite of tools has continously evolved and now gets even more useful for those who spenf the majority of their working lives tethered to their PCs.

Teams can be used to create interactive webinars for up to 1,000 attendees, and it will support view-only webinars with up to 20,000 attendees later this month.  Microsoft also announced that a new feature, PowerPoint Live, is also generally available in Teams, combining slides, notes, and meeting chat in a single view. This makes it easier to manage presentations and other collaboration windows from a single interface.

Lastly, a Dynamic view for Teams meetings feature is touted as enabling video conferences even more engaging for attendees by dynamically focusing on various components of a meeting,. A new Presenter mode is also coming soon and will allow meeting organizers to use three different modes to display their content next to their video feed.

OnePlus event announcement for Mar. 8 teases 'moonshot' photo

Source: OnePlus

OnePlus is all set to announce its new flagship next week on March 8. Expected to be called the OnePlus 9 series, the teaser site features a photo of the moon and the words "Something new is on the horizon." 

The Verge mentioned the picture looks quite similar to the famous Earthrise photograph of the Apollo 8 mission, which was shot with a Hasselblad camera. The significance of that is that OnePlus is reportedly working with the 180-year-old Swedish camera maker for its upcoming phones.

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Google Pixel 4, 4 XL to get better AR capabilities with dual camera support

If you like playing around with Google's augmented reality animals in Search, these virtual creatures might look more realistic on Pixel 4 and 4 XL devices soon. The Google Play Services for AR app has been updated with "Dual camera stereo depth on supported devices." This app is instrumental for unlocking the AR experiences built with Google's ARCore SDK. The two Pixel devices are listed to get the dual camera support upgrade coming out in the next few weeks.

This update means that ARCore will get better depth perception with two cameras, meaning more realistic placements for the AR objects. Google hasn't mentioned when it will be coming to other devices.

Source: Engadget

Apple's Music Memos app is no more

Source: Apple

Apple has officially shut down its Music Memos app. The company announced back in December that it will retire the app after March 1. Music Memos was a quick way for musicians and songwriters to capture song ideas while they're on the move or away from any easier means to jot down ideas on the fly. The app is no longer available on the App Store, but those who've installed the app before March 2 can still re-download it from their App Store purchase history.

The company wanted users to export their Music Memos to Voice Memos to ensure they still had access. Apple focused on improving the latter to encourage more users to use Voice Memos. It says users can still quickly capture song ideas with Voice Memos, and then bring these recordings to GarageBand. 

Source: MacRumors