It was a cool idea while it lasted. If Google's famously sparse home page is too plain for you, the company wanted to give you some more options as a bold color photo of sand dunes replaced the white ...

Background blur for Google Meet is a free Chrome extension that lets you blur the background during a video call using Google Meet or Hangouts. The extension is simple to use and can be easily turned ...

You can blur your background in Google Meet calls to keep the focus on you, and away from your surroundings. You can open the "Change background" menu before or during a meeting to blur your ...

You can change the background on your Google Slides presentation in a few simple steps. You can change your Google Slide background to an image from your computer or Google, or to a color. Visit ...

The tech giant has updated its blog post to reveal the new changes for its (recently unified) video calling platform. Google has confirmed that the company has already started rolling out these two ...

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As of the end of last month, Google Meet (née Hangouts Meet) is officially free for everyone, not just those with a paid G Suite account, to help the millions of people now working from home every day ...

Chris is the former Editor of Pocket-lint. He has been a technology journalist since 2008 and has covered the rise of Android and reviewed just about every important device along the way. Chris lives ...