Video conferencing services are becoming hugely popular, as they allow you to virtually meet with others when in-person conversations aren't possible. For Zoom, this has led to the discovery of its virtual background feature.

We actually walk you through how to set up and use a virtual background in Zoom here (no green screen required). Essentially, it lets you choose any image as your background. It's handy if you have a messy room or cluttered environment you want to hide during a video call. Even Disney and DC are fans of Zoom's virtual background feature, as they've now shared free images for people to use.

Looking to spice up your Zoom meetings? Try these backgrounds.

The ISS cupola

Don't be boring! If you still have to go to work meetings via Zoom's video calls, switch up the background to something interesting. Using the "virtual background" feature (once you're logged into the meeting), you can insert ANY image you want behind you. Share your flair with the people you work with!

Published on Feb 27, 2020

For today’s episode of War Stories, Ars Technica sat down with Naughty Dog Co-founder Andy Gavin to talk about the hurdles in bringing the original Crash Bandicoot to gamers around the world. When Andy and his partner Jason Rubin made the decision to bring the action platforming genre into three dimensions, it required living up to their company ethos of “leaving no stone unturned” in the search for memory - even if it meant hacking Sony’s library code.

Jitsi is a set of Open Source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions.

Jitsi Meet is a fully encrypted, 100% Open Source videoconferencing solution that you can use all day, every day, for free — with no account needed.

This repository contains the necessary tools to run a Jitsi Meet stack on Docker using Docker Compose.

In the 1960s-1970s, Ken Thompson co-invented the UNIX operating system along with Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. He also worked on the language B, the operating system Plan 9, and the language Go. He and Ritchie won the Turing Award. He now works at Google. He’ll be interviewed Brian Kernighan of “K&R” fame. This talk took place May 4, 2019. Videography courtesy of @thegurumeditation (Facebook), @thegurumeditate (Twitter)

The future is a kind of history that hasn’t happened yet. The past is a kind of future that has already happened. The present moment vanishes before it can be described. Language, a human invention, lacks the power to fully adhere to reality.

We live in a very short now and here, since the flow of events in spacetime is mostly closed to human comprehension. But we have to say something about the future, since we have to live there. So what can we say? Being “futuristic” is a problem in metaphysics; it’s about getting language to adhere to an unknowable reality. But the futuristic quickly becomes old-fashioned, so how can the news stay news?

A parody of Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star".

They’re watching, but are they seeing? #video #surveillance http://t.co/o3ZDQIJWJA #fb

Das war das #IBM Symposium 2010. Hier findest Du eine Videosequenz des Show Acts: http://on.fb.me/aaSCh2 #video

I'm not sure what simplicity is yet, but I know that it's not easy to obtain and it's not something to be confused with simplistic (or "dumbed down" or "too simple" etc.). I think "simplistic" and "simplicity" are different things and come from a different place, a different approach. This is what I was trying to say ...

Awesome talk by Ryan Dahl on Node.js: http://jsconf.eu/2009/video_nodejs_by_ryan_dahl.html #javascript #nodejs #video

Mobiles Breitband hat mit Video-Daten zu kämpfen. Kein Wunder beim Boom von YouTube & Co http://is.gd/34HbT #pte #video #mobilesinternet

RT @hedu: RT @spliffy: #wien #u4 #Videoüberwachung wie geil is das den? :) http://twitpic.com/gack1

Manche Einsicht kommt, wenn auch spät. Videoüberwachung ineffizient: http://tr.im/x6a0 #zensursula #videoüberwachung

Legos! Legos are designed for people of every age. In this week's Ignite episode, Hillel Cooperman describes his family's journey into the world of Lego eBay auctions, Lego CAD programs and Lego rooms.