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Due to the ongoing pandemic, more people than ever before are currently stuck sitting at their computers, using services like Zoom and Skype. The just-announced Wave for Work smart ring, however, is made to help free them up.

Volvo Cars will introduce Skype for Business to its new 90 Series vehicles. This makes Volvo the first carmaker to launch an in-car productivity tool like Microsoft’s collaborative app. Is this just a new distraction, or a next step in autonomous driving?

A new study cautions against typing while Skyping. By analyzing the acoustic signals of key presses, hackers may be able to untangle typed text through the clickety-clack of a keyboard itself, with an alarming accuracy of over 90 percent.​​

If you were geared up about that Skype Translator preview that Microsoft announced a year ago, but weren't able to get into the closed preview, today is your lucky day.

Skype, the Microsoft-owned video calling service available on just about every platform currently in use, is set to be a core part of the upcoming Windows 10 OS.These tips and tricks should help you to get more out of Skype.

In welcome news for anybody who has fumbled around on an unknown computer downloading Skype, Microsoft has announced a beta version for web browser. Skype for Web will be available on an invitation-only basis to start, with aims to roll out globally in the following months.

Skype has introduced a new video messaging app known as Qik that aims to compete with popular sharing service Snapchat. The app lets users exchange short videos, as well as create and store five second GIFs for quick and easy responses.

Microsoft has moved to break down language barriers and make talking to our international friends even more convenient. The company has unveiled Skype Translator, an application for its chat software that translates speech between different languages in (almost) real time.

While just about any webcam will work for Skyping, your best bet would presumably be to use one that’s actually designed for (and licensed by) Skype. Well, that's just what Amaryllo’s iCam HD is – it’s the world’s first HD wireless video-streaming camera to be licensed by the company.

Claudia Kuster and her team at the Computer Graphics Laboratory ETH Zurich are developing a way to bring eye contact to Skype and similar video calling services with software that alters the image of the person on the other end, giving the illusion that they’re looking straight at the camera.

In a series of bombshell leaks, the extent of the US government's alleged spying on Americans has been revealed.

Windows users of VoIP service Skype will soon be receiving targeted visual ads which the company has dubbed "Conversation Ads."