As long as you have the meeting ID, you can join and interrupt virtually any video call on Zoom. And that's how we get terms such as "Zoom-bombing," where someone jumps into a chat to say or visually show vulgar and inappropriate things to the other participants. However, hosts can put an end to it. Zoom-bombing happens more often than you might think. Zoom calls across the globe have been cut short because of harassment, pornography, violent imagery, and trolling. Chipotle, WFH Happy Hour, U...| Gadget Hacks
When you're stuck working or learning from home, video meetings can help you stay connected to employers, coworkers, schools, students, and more. And Zoom is the hottest video conferencing service at the moment. While Zoom is easy to use, it does have a fair share of sketchy features you should know about, such as attendee attention tracking. Update: As of April 1, 2020, the attendee attention tracking feature is no longer functional. Zoom removed it "as part of [its] commitment to the securi...| Gadget Hacks
As a meeting host on Zoom, you can't control what a participant does during your live video call, but you do have the power to turn off their camera so that other people aren't subjected to distractions. So if you catch someone in your call purposely making obscene gestures or accidentally exposing themselves while using the bathroom, you can block their camera, as long as you know how. Disabling a Zoom participant's camera isn't the only thing you need to worry about as a host. Sometimes att...| Gadget Hacks
If you're using or need to use Zoom, the popular video teleconferencing service, you've almost certainly heard about "Zoombombing" by now. While Zoom has been adding security measures to address the problem, there are other things you can do to prevent or stop Zoombombers in their tracks so that your video meetings and chats go undisturbed and uninterrupted. Zoombombing, for those of you who don't know or need a refresher, is the art of sabotaging a Zoom video conference online. Most of the t...| Gadget Hacks
Working from home has its perks. You don't need to commute, you can work in your pajamas, and you don't even need to clean your house, especially if you're using Zoom for video meetings on your smartphone. Instead of clearing toys from the floor or moving that pile of clothes on your chair, you can take advantage of Zoom's virtual background feature to hide what's really behind you. You can change your Zoom background to pretty much anything you want. Zoom has a few default images to choose f...| Gadget Hacks