Project Starline Realizes Asimov’s 3D Vision

Issac Asimov wrote Caves of Steel in 1953. In it, he mentions something called trimensional personification. In an age before WebEx and Zoom, imagining that people would have remote meetings replete …read more Continue reading Project Starline Realizes Asimov’s 3D Vision

Cisco Webex enhances People Insights feature to ensure privacy and security in a hybrid workplace

To help people work smarter, combat burnout and drive more inclusive work experiences, Cisco Webex announced advancements to the People Insights feature. Available through the all new Webex, and accessible through a personalized and private view, Peopl… Continue reading Cisco Webex enhances People Insights feature to ensure privacy and security in a hybrid workplace

Cisco Webex vulnerabilities may enable attackers to covertly join meetings

Cisco has fixed three bugs in its Cisco Webex video conferencing offering that may allow attackers to: Join Webex meetings without appearing in the participant list (CVE-2020-3419) Covertly maintain an audio connection to a Webex meeting after being ex… Continue reading Cisco Webex vulnerabilities may enable attackers to covertly join meetings

Distance Learning Land

[familylovermommy] has been homeschooling her kids even before the pandemic, so she’s pretty well-versed on being a learning coach and a teacher. One of the activities she designed for her boys has them creating 3D models using Tinkercad. In the spirit of openness and cultivating freethinking, she did not give …read more

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Cisco acquiring BabbleLabs to filter out the lawn mower screeching during your video conference

We’ve all been in a video conference, especially this year, when the neighbor started mowing the lawn or kids were playing outside your window — and it can get pretty loud. Cisco, which owns the WebEx video conferencing service wants to do something about that, and late yesterday it announced it was going to acquire […] Continue reading Cisco acquiring BabbleLabs to filter out the lawn mower screeching during your video conference

News Wrap: Twitter Hack, Apple Under Fire and Global Privacy Finger Wags

Threatpost editors talk about the biggest security news stories for the week ended Jul. 24. Continue reading News Wrap: Twitter Hack, Apple Under Fire and Global Privacy Finger Wags

Quickly Mute and Unmute Yourself Using the Physical Mute Button

With many conferences moving to fully virtual this year, video conferencing will continue to be a mainstay in our lives for the foreseeable future. [Elliot] wanted to spice up his video conferencing experience just a bit and make his experience a bit more ergonomic. We’ve all had the problem of …read more

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