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Zoom drops $14.7B on cloud call center firm to boost post-pandemic business It’s the second-biggest US tech deal this year Story byThomas Macaulay Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy.Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy. Get the TNW newsletter Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week....

Zoom drops $14.7B on cloud call center firm to boost post-pandemic business It’s the second-biggest US tech deal this year Story byThomas Macaulay Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy.Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy. Get the TNW newsletter Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week....

Zoom etiquette: Yes, it’s OK to mute your face Turn off your camera sometimes — it’s fine Face-muting is ok Communicating remotelyisn’t new. For ages, we corresponded by mail. Then we added telegraphs, which increased the speed of communication. Then came telephones, which allowed us to communicate beyond cables. Fax, email, instant message—the communication options continued to grow. We didn’t see each other’s faces, yet business still thrived. Video calls are great for a lot of things, likescreen sharingand picking up on non-verbal cues....

Zoom’s launch of animal avatars is a balm for video call fatigue The new animal farm Animal avatars? How will they work? When you turn on your avatar, your background will disappear, and your face will turn into an animal, like a cat or a dog. By following your face using your webcam, the avatar will be able to mimic your expressions to some extent. Zoom says the function recognizes “the shape of your face and features like your eyes, nose, and mouth to create the desired effect....

Zuck wants to build AR NFTs for Instagram because… maybe he’s bored? Only Ethereum and Polygon based NFTs are supported for now Meta’s ambitions go beyond just sharing NFTs Meta’s announcement had an underlying theme of the company thinking about NFTs beyond sharing them on feeds. Mosseri said that the creator economy is important to Instagram, and one of the challenges the industry faces is to help creators make money. Maybe we’ll see Instagram supporting sales of digital collectibles in the future....