App downloads decline 2.3% in 2024, but consumer spending grows to $127B

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Techme101

The global app economy continued to recover in 2024, after an earlier slowdown in 2022 — at least in terms of consumer spending. In 2024, global consumer spending in mobile apps and games reached $127 billion across the App Store and Google Play, up 15.7% from the prior year. However, those increases were driven by […]
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Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Techme101

Botto is a ‘decentralized AI artist’ whose work has fetched millions. As AI improves, its creators may give it fewer guardrails to test its emerging personality.

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7 of the Best Product Catalog Templates [Download Now]

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Techme101

Check out the best internal and external product catalog templates for Excel, Google Sheets, Notion, Trello, Airtable, and more.

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Australia Unveils National AI Plan to Boost Investment and Capabilities

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Techme101

Australia announces a national AI plan to boost investment, skills, and infrastructure, aiming to capitalize on AI’s potential to drive economic growth by 2030.

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AI startup Oddysee’s new tool can generate photorealistic 3D worlds

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Techme101

Odyssey, a startup founded by self-driving pioneers Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, is developing an AI-powered tool that can transform text or an image into a 3D rendering. The tool, dubbed Explorer, is similar in some ways to the so-called world models recently demoed by DeepMind, World Labs, and Israeli upstart Decart. Given a caption like “a […]
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SpaceX gets green light for seventh Starship mission 

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Techme101

Regulators have given SpaceX the go-ahead to launch Starship for the seventh time, although the company has not yet announced when that mission may take place.  While the exact launch date is unclear, SpaceX engineers have been as busy as ever at the company’s massive launch site near Boca Chica, Texas. In recent days, the […]
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Supreme Court to Hear TikTok’s Challenge to Law That Could Ban It

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Techme101

The company and its Chinese parent invoked the First Amendment in urging the justices to step in before a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or be shut down.

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Supreme Court to hear last gasp TikTok ban challenge

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Techme101

The US wants the app to be sold or banned because of what it says are links to the Chinese state.

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Upscale Your Video Content for Just $30

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Techme101

Transform your video content with AI-powered tools to upscale, enhance, and stabilize footage, whether you’re editing for work or personal projects.

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Supreme Court to hear arguments over TikTok sell-or-ban law

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Techme101

The Supreme Court said on Wednesday that it will hear ByteDance and TikTok’s challenge to a law would ban the social network in the U.S. unless the social network divests from Chinese ownership by January 19.  On January 10, the Supreme Court justices will hear argue about whether the sell-or-ban law violates the First Amendment. […]
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