Prisma

When it comes to building databases and other backend software development, different organizations and developers do not always speak the same language. Today a startup called Prisma that’s built a…

Prisma raises $40M for its open source ‘Rosetta Stone’ for database languages

Over 90% of the fastest-growing open-source companies in 2020 were founded outside the San Francisco Bay Area, and 12 out of the top 20 originate in Europe, according to a…

Study finds most big open-source startups outside Bay Area, many European, and avoiding VC

Intel detailed today its contribution to PhiSat-1, a new tiny small satellite that was launched into sun-synchronous orbit on September 2. PhiSat-1 has a new kind of hyperspectral-thermal camera on…

Intel is providing the smarts for the first satellite with local AI processing on board

A bearded Rihanna gyrates and sings about shining bright like a diamond. A female Jack Sparrow looks like she’d be a right laugh over a pint. The cartoon contours of…

Deepfake video app Reface is just getting started on shapeshifting selfie culture

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Can learning pods scale, or are they widening edtech’s digital divide?

Lucia, a six-year old, hides from Zoom calls and has rejected every edtech tool from Seesaw to Khan Academy. She will spend all of first grade in quarantine. Her mother, Claire Díaz-Ortiz, says her daughter fits squarely into the “distance learning death zone.” The idea is that younger children are…

Can learning pods scale, or are they widening edtech’s digital divide?

The cold email worked — you’ve landed a meeting with your dream investor. Hell, you even set aside $40,000 for a pitch deck consultant to make sure your presentation looks…

Lo Toney’s product manager playbook for pitch deck success

At first glance launching a new social app may seem as sensible a startup idea as plunging headfirst into shark-infested waters. But with even infamous curtain-ripper Facebook now making grand…

Social chat app Capture launches to take a shot at less viral success

Remember Prisma? The Moscow-based team behind the app that sparked a style transfer craze in 2016 has raised a $6 million Series A, led by early stage artificial intelligence focused…

Prisma Labs raises $6M for its AI-powered approach to visual editing

The style transfer craze kicked off by an app called Prisma a couple of years ago led to a tsunami of painterly selfies flooding social feeds for several months, as we…

Prisma’s style transfer tech creeps into kids’ books

Prisma Labs, the startup behind the style transfer craze of a couple of years ago, has a new AI-powered iOS app for retouching selfies. An Android version of the app…

Prisma’s new AI-powered app, Lensa, helps the selfie camera lie

GraphQL, the Facebook-incubated data query language, is moving into its own open-source foundation. Like so many other similar open-source foundations, the aptly named GraphQL Foundation will be hosted by the…

Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation

Two of the co-founders of the art filter app Prisma have left to build a new social app. Prisma, as you may recall, had a viral moment back in 2016 when selfie…

Prisma co-founders raise $1M to build a social app called Capture

Prisma, a Berlin and San Francisco startup that is betting big on GraphQL — the data query language originally developed by Facebook to make it easier for front-end code to…

Prisma raises $4.5M seed round led by Kleiner Perkins

Ever get stuck for that perfect gag-line on a photo of your friends? You want to turn even an ordinary photo into an internet meme, but maybe you just can’t…

Prisma adds to its armoury, integrating GagBot’s  AI meme-generator

The startup behind the Prisma style transfer app is shifting focus onto the b2b space, building tools for developers that draw on its expertise using neural networks and deep learning…

Prisma shifts focus to b2b with an API for AI-powered mobile effects

Meet Teleport: An app that’s using a trained neural network to power a selfie-editing feature that lets you change the color of your hair at the touch of a button. 

Teleport’s neural networks let you try before you hair dye

Meet Sticky, the next app from the startup behind Prisma, which turns selfies into stylized and/or animated stickers for sharing to your social feeds. Sticky is launching today on iOS, with…

Prisma’s next AI project is a fun selfie sticker maker called Sticky

Photo filter app Prisma released an update this week giving users a new way to browse all the different styles available. And for select users, there’s also a way to create styles…

Trying out Prisma’s new photo filter store

Style transfer app Prisma is adding another couple of new features as it works to keep its community engaged: a styles store and a tool that lets users create their…

Prisma adds styles store and custom tool for superusers to make art filters

If you’re finding the vision of Trump’s visage with a smile on it generating ‘uncanny valley’ levels of unease and creepiness you’d be right. The smile is FAKE NEWS folks!…

FaceApp uses neural networks for photorealistic selfie tweaks

Prisma, the app that popularized style transfer to apply art-esque filters to photos and videos after launching this summer, is finally attempting to turn itself into more than just a…

Prisma launches a social feed to see if style can transfer into a platform

Style transfer startup Prisma added support to its iOS app for livestreaming its art filter effects in real-time via Facebook Live earlier this month — but almost immediately the startup’s…

Facebook has cut off Prisma’s Live Video access

Prisma’s app now supports real-time style transfer for livestreaming videos broadcast to the Facebook Live platform.

Prisma now supports real-time style transfer on Facebook Live

Yesterday Facebook demoed a stylized filter feature that it says will be coming to soon to the real-time processing options it offers for its Live Video broadcast feature. Not to…

Prisma demos its art filters working in real-time on Facebook Live video

Art filter photo app Prisma is adding a big new feature to its iOS app in an update landing today: support for videos.

Prisma adds art filtered video, GIFs coming next

Art photo filter app sensation Prisma, which only launched this summer but racked up more than 55 million downloads in a matter of weeks, has sparked a rush of other…

Now CanvasPop wants to turn your Prisma photos into wall art

Papa John’s has a catchy motto: “Better Ingredients. Better Pizza.” This analogy works in technology, as well. As better ingredient technologies arrive on the scene, they open the door for…

Better ingredients, better companies

Art filter app sensation Prisma, which has revved up from nothing to an incredible 55 million+ downloads for its iOS and Android apps in just two months this summer, has…

Prisma adds offline mode to its crazy popular art filter app

The hits just keep on coming for Prisma. Just over a month after launching on iOS and almost immediately capturing the imagination of the Instagramming masses in the process, AI-fueled photo…

Prisma for Android is now live for all in the Google Play Store

Prisma morphs your photos into fine art like Picasso or Mondrian, and it’s blowing up the iOS app charts. Today it came out in unofficial APK beta on Android. But…

Will photo art phenom Prisma raise or get bought?