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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, was conversing with Kermit the Frog on Google Meet as part of YouTube's "Dear Earth" series, which addresses the world's sustainability concerns and potential solutions. During the video conference with the Muppets character, he inadvertently forgot to unmute himself. He realised his mistake 11 seconds later and unmuted himself. The two then continued their talk by discussing the types of YouTube videos they… read-more

The facebook-owned messaging platform, WhatsApp has announced a new feature that will allow users to join a group call in the middle of it and at their preferred time. This new feature has been effective from July 20. WhatsApp group calls will show a similar feature of Zoom and Google Meet which allows users to join on their preferences. Users can drop and rejoin the call at their convenience.

Google's virtual meeting platform Meet has limited the meeting duration to 60 minutes for free plans from September 30. Reportedly, the advanced features for G Suite and G Suite for Education will also be elapsed. Google further stated that any changes to the new moderations will be communicated. It also reported that the advanced features will be available in 'Enterprise' section of G Suite. 

Google G Suite's chief, Javier Soltero thinks Duo, their consumer-based video chatting app and Meet, enterprise-based video conferencing app should not coexist. Thus, has been decided that Meet will be Google's only video calling service, shutting down Duo. The merger is codenamed Duet (Duo + Meet = Duet). Once integrated, features like End-to-End encryption and connecting users with phone numbers will be added to Meet.