Tag: Zoom

  • ‘What nonsense are you doing here?’: Professor dodging wife’s kiss on Zoom goes viral

    ‘What nonsense are you doing here?’: Professor dodging wife’s kiss on Zoom goes viral

    Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and love sure is in the air…

    The video of an Indian professor dodging his wife’s kiss while on a Zoom conference has gone viral over the internet.

    The man, who was seen talking about GDP in the video, then calls his partner’s romantic move as “foolish and nonsense”.

    The wife in the clip seems unaware that the husband is in the middle of a conference.

    Visibly in distress, and with the striking response, the professor quickly pulls himself away. “What nonsense you’re doing here?” he can be heard as asking his wife.

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    While the video has gone viral with netizens widely sharing it over the internet, it comes weeks after a prominent Indian doctor was caught getting scolded by his wife during a live session, for receiving the COVID-19 vaccine without his family.

    The said video had also gone viral.

  • Lawyer accidentally turns on kitten filter during virtual case hearing

    Lawyer accidentally turns on kitten filter during virtual case hearing

    A Texas court hearing over Zoom went viral after a lawyer accidentally activated a cat filter and then couldn’t turn off.

    In the Zoom meeting, one of the lawyers, Rod Ponton, became a fluffy white kitten in a moment. Mr Ponton’s head appeared as a cat alongside the two men in suits.

    In the video, Judge Roy Ferguson asked the lawyer if he wanted to turn of the filter.

    “Can you hear me, judge?” Mr Ponton responded as a kitten.

    “I can hear you. I think it’s a filter,” the judge replied.

    “It is, and I don’t know how to remove it,” the lawyer said in response.

    Later, in a phone interview with The New York Times, the lawyer talking about the incident said: “If I can make the country chuckle for a moment in these difficult times they’re going through, I’m happy to let them do that at my expense.”

    Mr Ponton added that his secretary – whose computer he was using for the call – was “embarrassed” by the mistake.

    But the whole incident took less than a minute before he figured out how to deactivate the filter and return to business.

    “My older and less humorous face popped up, and we continued with the hearing,” he said.

    Judge Ferguson shared the video clip on Twitter with the caption: “These fun moments are a by-product of the legal profession’s dedication to ensuring that the justice system continues to function in these tough times. Everyone involved handled it with dignity, and the filter lawyer should incredible grace. True professionalism all around.”

  • Singaporean court hands out death sentence through video-link

    Singaporean court hands out death sentence through video-link

    A Singaporean court has handed via video-link the death sentence to a Malaysian man, Punithan Genasan, who was found guilty of being involved in drug trafficking.

    He facilitated the trafficking of 28.5 kilograms of heroin back in 2011, which has a zero-tolerance policy for illegal drug use. He was then extradited in 2016, later he was found guilty and sentenced to death via a Zoom call by high court officials.  

    Singapore’s Supreme Court said in a statement that in line with measures to minimise the further spread of the COVID-19, courts have been conducting hearings, including hearings on criminal matters remotely.

    Therefore, for the safety of all involved in legal proceedings, trials are being conducted virtually. Genasan’s lawyer did not object to the sentence being handed out via video conference.

    Since much of the western world was placed on coronavirus lockdown in late February through March, Zoom’s usage has skyrocketed. This has led to questions about what business the software is and isn’t fit to handle.

    Companies like Google and SpaceX have banned employees from using Zoom out of security concerns. School districts in New York, as well as teachers throughout Singapore, have also been barred from using the software.