How Skype Lost The Video Conferencing Wars To Zoom
During the coronavirus pandemic, Skype could've been the top app for video conferencing. But instead, we're all on Zoom. What went wrong?
During the coronavirus pandemic, Skype could've been the top app for video conferencing. But instead, we're all on Zoom. What went wrong?
"The car had every opportunity to fall in line behind me, but instead chose to cut off an 80,000lb truck carrying an oversize load. We can't stop on a dime and I wasn't about to put my own life in jeopardy by slamming on the brakes and having my load shift."
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This couple never changed their engine oil once since buying their car. Problem?
Tom Scott recalls the onosecond he realized he made the worst typo in his life.
Think you're having a bad work day? Well, at least your day didn't go like this.
Overcrowding is seriously jeopardizing the future of America's beloved national parks.
Chinese-made low-speed vehicles get put through the ringer in this extremely entertaining car show.
Sorry, but Isabelle thinks your island is ugly
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A guy from Tamworth in the United Kingdom gets a little too ambitious on his birthday.
BlackBerry went from controlling the global smartphone market to the bottom of the scrap heap in one of the greatest falls from grace in business history.
He started with one problem and ended with two.
All it takes for a chill sitch to turn into a bad sitch is a hastily-pressed brake pedal.
The teacher has become the humbled student.
You could say he made it downhill, just not in the way he probably expected.
The popularity of 3D movies spiked in the late 2000s. However, the medium seems to have come and gone yet again. How did the 3D movie craze lose its mojo?
His day would have been so much easier if he had taken an elevator instead.
A very unlucky driver in a Toyota Hilux in Melbourne, Australia went the wrong way and couldn't reverse course.
A home inspection company released a compilation of serious issues detected while on the job.
In the fight between Ford and Dodge, Ford takes this round.
The Lock Picking Lawyer demonstrates the shoddiness of this lockbox by cracking it with a Red Bull can.
What happens when a 110 million-year-old dinosaur fossil falls apart while you're digging it out of the ground?
Kodak had every opportunity to dominate the digital photo market but let it slip away.
If only this guy had stayed home and not made a huge fool of himself.
It seems like a lot of movie extras are just phoning it in as this one astute viewer noticed from this classic film.
"I had nothing but goodwill for the little guy and I was totally oblivious to any birds of prey nearby."
Hindsight definitely makes this seem pretty stupid, but then again, foresight probably should have too.
Belgium's Deputy Prime Minister Koen Geens struggled to put on face mask during a press junket on Thursday.
And just when they've finally managed to almost get away with it, the police arrives.
This scooter driver did a 360 degree spin in the air after getting rammed into by this car. Fortunately, he wasn't seriously injured and they settled the matter without involving the police.
Colin Burgess, while quarantining with his roommate Rajat, attempted to put together an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine. It failed to go the way he would've liked, but he just rolled with it.
A train was caught on camera slamming into a truck carrying a boat stalled on the tracks in Norway. Thankfully, nobody was hurt.
Matt Burton got the shock of a lifetime when the front latch of his Lotus Elise sports car's roof failed and the whole thing gave way.
"What could go wrong?" he probably thought. What could go wrong, indeed.
Hindsight is 20/20, but we're not sure we can see how this was ever a good idea.
Why state unemployment websites are overloaded but streaming services like Netflix (which also have spiked in numbers) are totally fine.
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The milk man cometh, and the milk man taketh away.
You've probably seen some cool videos of katana swords cutting through things like butter. This is not one of those videos, unfortunately.
It's a boy!… and, oh boy, that must hurt.
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An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response.
While driving in Oahu, a woman was shocked by what this truck had done.
Shanghai Tower, the second tallest building in the world, was supposed to be a symbol of China's economic success but ended up becoming an albatross.
There's finally an explanation to the seemingly incomprehensible viral video.
Things aren't going so well for the owner of this highly-modified Porsche Carrera GT.
Throughout the past two months, Dr. Drew went on multiple news programs and downplayed the severity of the coronavirus pandemic.
He promised life-saving ventilators. He delivered sleep apnea machines.
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Sometimes to launch a boat you must lose a car in the process too.
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This soccer player really took one for the team.
Body cam footage obtained by The Intercept apparently caught a police officer in Staten Island planting drug paraphernalia inside a car during a traffic stop.
Some daring motorcyclists in Vietnam attempted to squeeze between two trucks. It didn't end well but fortunately no one was seriously injured.
A compilation of the mishaps on this road-turned-obstacle course in East Conway, New Hampshire.
Amazon cracked down on coronavirus price gouging. Now, while the rest of the world searches, some sellers are holding stockpiles of sanitizer and masks.
MoviePass tried to change the moviegoing experience but couldn't fulfill the demand.