Good news, all of you Skype users who’ve been known to participate in calls in rooms that look like a disaster behind you — or who, you know, sit for a TV interview via Skype while your children parade around behind you. Microsoft has added a new feature to its chat service that might mitigate situations like those, and others: A background blur that relies on artificial intelligence to focus on the caller, to the exclusion of what’s around them.
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Skype adds background blurring, eliminating the need to clean up before a call originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 14:34:28 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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