Prisma, a photo and video retouching app that’s built a cult following since its launch in June, now lets users apply its style transfers to their Facebook live broadcasts.
The move sees the Russian platform beat its larger rival to launch the real-time tech, which Facebook is currently testing on its flagship app in Ireland, and is expected to rollout soon.
A style transfer is essentially a filter that transforms your images and videos to match the style of a famous artist’s work. Prisma’s latest Live video-centric update only works with the iPhone 6S and beyond, due to the complex processing its AI powered system requires, according to TechCrunch.
Prisma users that also happen to own the latest iPhone model can access the new function by making sure they are logged into their Facebook account via the app.
Prisma co-founder Alexey Moiseenkov, who demoed the update last month, said the following in a statement: “We are working in a direction that we always considered important. We want to change the way people communicate with each other using the most advanced and new technology. We believe, that even a small company can achieve great results.”
For a small company, Prisma is making significant strides. Having accumulated 7.5 million downloads by July, the app has now seen that figure jump to 72 million. The company claims its platform now has 2 million daily active users, with its biggest markets including the United States, India, and Russia.
The latest update comes shortly after Facebook announced its own style transfer tech for Live video. On Tuesday, Facebook revealed the AI that’s powering the features on its mobile app. Both Prisma and Facebook allow users to apply filters to live broadcasts by processing media locally on the user’s mobile device.
Despite its push to outdo Facebook, Prisma is still facing a tough battle in the long run due to the sheer size of the big blue social network.
Discord is trying to push more visibility on the internet for some of its biggest communities, and there's a good chance your messages could end up in a Google Search. The platform is preparing to make conversations from certain public servers searchable on the web, so there's a privacy setting you might want to check before the rollout begins.
According to Discord's official announcement, the changes will roll out in two stages. Starting November 16, qualifying servers will have public web pages featuring automated summaries of conversations. By mid-December, individual messages from eligible public channels could also appear word-for-word in Google and other search engines.
You just opened X and started typing your thoughts. Imagine the jump scare when a hand suddenly pops up on your screen, pointing at the promote button. It doesn’t say a word and simply points. For a growing number of X users, this isn’t a made-up scenario but something they have been seeing since yesterday, and very few of them are amused.
Most of us have learned to tune out the usual in-app upsells, whether it’s a glowing upgrade banner or a pop-up about a premium plan. A floating hand hovering over your draft is much harder to ignore, and that’s probably the whole point.
Scroll through any app for five minutes, and you’ll find someone maxxing something. Their skin, their sleep, their protein intake, even their Friday night on the couch. That little suffix has been everywhere this year, and now it has a trophy to show for it. In a recent announcement, Dictionary.com named maxxing its 2026 Word of the Year.
What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?