A journalist with more than eight years of experience in the gaming segment (she blames The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask for that). Not every multiplayer title needs to have angry shouting players ...

Asynchronous multiplayer games offer deep strategy in short sessions, seamlessly fitting into busy lives. Games like Through the Ages, RAID: Shadow Legends, and The Battle of Polytopia excel in async ...

You may have noticed that the phrase “Let’s take that offline” is gradually being replaced by “Let’s connect async.” Both expressions are a type of white flag, surrendering to the reality that a ...

FastCo Works moderator, Rachana Bhide, speaks with Joe Thomas, cofounder and head of product at Loom Atlassian about why he launched Loom, a video based collaboration tool that enables organizations ...

In the early days of voicemail, leaving messages was an efficient and convenient way to avoid playing “telephone tag” or scheduling unnecessary meetings. Voicemail messages record vocal inflections to ...

Mary Nestor, Millie Tullis and James Butler write that a recent opinion essay presented a distorted view of the possibilities of asynchronous course design. Many institutions now offer effective ...

As with other corporations and institutions during the coronavirus pandemic, American universities turned to virtual means to maintain their vital functions. Consequently, though synchronous and ...

Alagappan is an internal medicine physician and the founder and CEO of Counsel Health, a virtual medical practice specializing in messaging-based care. Khakhkhar is a practicing emergency medicine ...