WebRTC Weekly Issue #377 - April 28, 2021

Here is the latest on WebRTC  from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.

Reading

Join the Wonder WebRTC unConference 🙌 (sponsored):
On May 18th, we’ll unite the WebRTC community to talk about our bright browser-based future.

European MPs targeted by deepfake video calls imitating Russian opposition (The Guardian)
This is going to make quite some headaches in the future. Or is it in the present already?

6 Reasons We Will Depend on WebRTC Live Video Streaming (Red5 Pro)
I guess the challenge is that other alternatives don’t work that well in browsers (while keeping sub-second latency).

Technical

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WebRTC Testing Made Easy (testRTC)
How to think and plan your WebRTC testing.

Use Cases and Customer Wins

Making meetings more immersive, inclusive, and productive with Google Meet (Google Cloud)
Google hammers along polishing the experience of Meet.

Podcast recording platform Riverside.fm raises $9.5M (TechCrunch)
We’ve seen a few podcast companies raise money recently. Kudos to Riverside.fm.

YC-backed Kidato raises $1.4M seed to scale its online school for K-12 students in Africa (TechCrunch)
I wonder what online means here and if this is WebRTC. Should be.

Social networking app for women, Peanut, adds live audio rooms (TechCrunch)
Just when I thought we’ll have a week without a Clubhouse clone.

Releases

Announcing the new Daily Prebuilt for developers (Daily)
Daily has a new upgrade to its Prebuilt offering.

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