With Zoom video calls, your computer’s main camera displays you and your surroundings. That’s fine if you want to appear as yourself in your normal office, bedroom, or kitchen. But that’s boring.

Snap Camera app, which offers fancy filters to Zoom users, is shutting down this January. The parent firm of Snapchat announced that it is killing its camera app for PC and Mac this month. NEW YORK, ...

Editor’s Note: Recently, an unfortunate lawyer joined a hearing with a cat filter enabled. The poor “cat lawyer” quickly became a viral sensation, which we’ve embedded at the end of this story. Here’s ...

It was the cat filter seen around the world: Texas lawyer Rod Ponton haplessly trying to appear in a virtual courtroom while his Zoom showed a morose kitten instead of his face. His worried statement ...

The whole “make your face look like a Pixar/Dreamworks animated character” has been quite popular lately. Who hasn’t had at least one sibling or college friend send them images of themselves looking ...

You can only change your Snapchat filter within the Snap Camera app on your computer, not within the Zoom meeting — something to be aware of so you don't end up looking like a giant cat during your ...

A video of a lawyer using the cat filter during a virtual court hearing went viral. Rod Ponton, the lawyer, joined the Zoom call before checking the video settings, which had the cat filter enabled.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Now you can give yourself a meow-kover. Texas lawyer Rod Ponton had both his colleagues and the internet in stitches after accidentally “morphing” into a cat during a virtual court hearing Tuesday.

Americans are already bored with videoconferences. As large parts of the United States come to the end of their second week of quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic, chatting for business or ...

With Zoom video calls, your computer’s main camera displays you and your surroundings. That’s fine if you want to appear as yourself in your normal office, bedroom, or kitchen. But that’s boring.