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  Telegram remains a solid alternative to  Whatsapp . More recently, it gained video calling smarts   to help bolster its popularity during the pandemic. Now, it’s gunning for video conferencing tools with a new group video calling and screen sharing feature. Users can now convert group voice calls into group video calls by tapping the camera icon on the call screen. Voice calls can still host “unlimited” participants, but only 30 users in a group can participate with video. Telegram notes this limit will “increase soon.” Group admins can also pin a user’s video feed, effectively making it the first screen new users see when joining the video chat. This is available on mobile and desktop, too, and should be useful for teachers hosting online classes. Users can also tap on any one of the users’ video screens to make it fullscreen on their device. Syncing with these improvements is the ability to share screens. Users can tap the three-dot menu button and select...

Microsoft Teams is more than a chat or conferencing application. While it's often used like Skype or Slack, Teams has functionality that makes it a robust solution for collaboration among teams, all while keeping you connected to colleagues around the globe. It is a particularly useful tool today as entire workforces are operating from home, many working remotely for the first time.  Whether you’ve been using it for years or are unfamiliar with the platform, Microsoft Teams can be daunting. There are tons of tools and menus to sift through, and much like Microsoft’s own Excel, most people have only touched the surface. With that said, here are some of our favorite Microsoft Teams features so you can master the platform. Collaborate on files Microsoft Teams offers some great collaboration tools, one of our favorites being the Files tab on the top bar. Once clicked, you can edit files in real-time with your team and all without opening additional applications. This works with Word, E...

  A gritty narrative based on a true story. One of the most exciting shows currently on the Amazon Prime Video roster is a little-known Brazilian gem,  Dom . Based on a true story,  Dom  tells the story of a cop who has to bring a stop to one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dreaded drug traffickers, who also happens to be his son. Even though both father and son grew up in Rio, the story shows how the city affects people who choose different paths despite being in a similar environment. The show spans across two timelines - one showing the father, Victor Dantas, in his teenage years, and the other showing the rise of his son, Pedro, his struggle with cocaine as a kid, and his rise within the gang scene in Rio during his late teens and early twenties. Although the show has enough action and thrill to hook you right in from the get go, it also touches upon a deeper layer - that of a complicated and yet, endearing father-son relationship, which gives a wide universal appeal. T...

The hype for   The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It   is building, and horror fans are using these last few days before  The Conjuring 3   comes to theaters and HBO Max to catch up on the   other seven films   in the  Conjuring   movie-verse. That includes  The Nun , the 2018 spin-off film that serves as a prequel to  The Conjuring 2.  You may recall that in  The Conjuring 2,  actor Bonnie Aarons plays the film’s antagonist: A demon nun channeling the spirit of the evil Valak.  The Nun  serves as an origin story of sorts—a non-demon nun named Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga) and a priest named Father Burke (Demián Bichir) travel to investigate a monastery in 1952 Romania. Apparently, some pretty creepy stuff has been happening at this monastery—like nuns being attacked by invisible, evil spirits. Sister Irene and Father Burke eventually learn that the abbey was built on a rift intended to seal out the evil demon V...

Nutrition Myth 1- Egg yolks are high in cholesterol and bad for your body In reality, cholesterol is the basic component in your cell structure and is crucial for your hormones like estrogen, progesterone and cortisone. Bad cholesterol is LDL that is present in processed foods and good cholesterol is HDL that you find in egg yolk. Without thinking twice, make sure you have two whole eggs with yolks every day. Nutrition Myth 2- Eating smaller meals is equal to higher metabolism and faster weight loss In reality, the number of calories you consume and the thermic effect of food count more. So, whether you eat two meals in a day or eat five to six meals in a day, it doesn’t really affect your weight loss. But what matters is the number of calories you are having and the number of times you are going to spike your insulin. So, it’s always better to eat two meals in a day and practice intermittent fasting. Nutrition Myth 3- Saturated fats are bad for health Did you know that saturated fats ...

The  Moon  is Earth's only natural satellite. At about one-quarter the diameter of Earth (comparable to the width of Australia), it is the largest natural satellite in the Solar System relative to the size of its planet, the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System overall, and is larger than any dwarf planet Why does the Moon change shape? Phases of the Moon © NASA/Bill Dunford The Moon goes through a series of phases each month, from the new Moon to the full Moon and back again. So why is it sometimes a full circle and sometimes only a crescent – or even not visible at all? The Sun’s light will only hit one half of the Moon at a time, giving it a day side and a night side – just like on Earth. The shape that the Moon appears to us on Earth depends on where it is compared to the Sun. If it’s directly between the Earth and the Sun, then the Sun’s light only falls on the side we can’t see, and so we get a new Moon: it appears completely dark in the sky. However, when the Moo...