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Thousands of traditional summer internships have been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic making way for a new digital offering: The virtual summer internship. But what does that look like?

Daphne Leprince-Ringuet tells Karen Roby that architects and designers are already sketching the plans for our office life for a post-pandemic world. This is what it looks like.

If you’re trying to decide between Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, or another video conferencing platform, security, price, and app integration are some of the factors to keep in mind.

The new normal of work exiting the COVID-19 pandemic may mean the much ballyhooed open office won’t be up to snuff. Here are 4 reasons why COVID-19 may nix the open office.

Do you find yourself constantly missing meetings? Give yourself a hand by tweaking the Google Calendar notifications on your Android device.

Looking to sync directories on two Linux servers in your data center and want to do it on the cheap? Unison might be just the tool you need.

If being bombarded by a constant deluge of Slack notifications is wearing on your sanity, it may be time to mute some of those channels. Find out how.

Adjusting to remote work has created many opportunities and challenges in business and IT.

Learn how to take control of that massive number of open tabs on Firefox or Chrome with the Tab Manager Plus extension.

Learn how UPS drivers and in-house workers are benefiting from training through virtual reality.

Save your eyes and your laptop battery by darkening your display in Microsoft’s Teams collaboration app.

Learn how to split text into separate cells or combine text into a cell using the split and concatenate functions in Google Sheets.

ZDNet’s Larry Dignan gets the rundown from Mary-Jo Foley of all the news you need to know from Microsoft Build, a conference that has doubled down on developer sessions this year.

Microsoft’s Teams collaboration platform assumes you want certain items on its left-hand menu bar, but you can customize it to meet your needs.

If you want to disguise the room behind you in a Microsoft Teams meeting, here’s how to change the virtual background.

These three Google tools can help you keep customers informed as your company’s hours and offerings change.

In Microsoft Teams, you can create tags to quickly communicate with particular team members, but the menu items can be tricky to find. This video shows how to use tags in Microsoft Teams.

Sometimes admins need to be able to test a web-based solution before deciding it’s worth using. When that software requires SSL, you can enable a snake-oil SSL key for testing purposes.