Shutterstock wants you to edit all of its stock photos

Shutterstock is letting professionals go to town on its 700 million stock images as it rolls out AI-powered photo editor tools and “fully customizable stock”.  Since making its name as a stock image website, Shutterstock has since shifted gears. It’s built up a creative design hub, complete with content marketing tools and, crucially, a Dall-E-powered … Read more

Viso eyes no-code for the future of computer vision and scores funding to scale

Computer vision has become commonplace across innumerable industries, but the methods of creating and controlling these visual AI models aren’t so easy. Viso is building a low/no-code end-to-end platform that lets companies roll their own computer vision stack, and they just pulled in $9M to scale up. There are tons of computer vision models and … Read more

Apple TV Plus is getting a major price hike, and I couldn’t be more annoyed

Bad news, everyone: Apple TV Plus, one of the last bastions of ad-free cost-effective streaming services, is getting a big price hike. As first reported by Bloomberg, Apple is raising the price of one of the world’s best streaming services. Even worse, it’ll cost almost double what you’re currently paying to use the streaming platform. … Read more

VPN firm lashes out against Big Tech to defend privacy with big pink pipe

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A 2.5-meter-tall pink pipe spilling a thick green slime: it’s certainly not a spectacle we often see across our streets. Nevertheless, the eye-catching installation is how a virtual private network (VPN) firm decided to welcome the “Big Five” tech companies as they establish themselves in Munich, during the grand opening of their brand new office … Read more