Here are five startups that are running Super Bowl ads this year

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Techme101

Super Bowl weekend is here with the Philadelphia Eagles set to take on the Kansas City Chiefs in New Orleans on Sunday evening. While many folks tune in to the Super Bowl for the actual football, others do so for the halftime performance, and some tune in just for the ads. The ad roster this […]
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Investments in French AI ecosystem reach $85B as Brookfield commits $20B

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Techme101

Canadian investment firm Brookfield plans to invest €20 billion by 2030 in artificial intelligence projects in France (around $20.7 billion at current exchange rates), according to a report from La Tribune Dimanche confirmed by news agency AFP. The majority of the sum will be used to build AI-focused data centers. This announcement is the latest […]
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These apps are building Instagram alternatives on open protocols

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Techme101

Consumer demand for alternatives to Big Tech’s social apps is heating up. Alternative social networks like Bluesky and Mastodon are gaining traction with people looking to leave X, while others are building ban-proof TikTok alternatives on open protocols. Similarly, many independent developers are also working on open, decentralized alternatives to Instagram, Meta’s flagship photo-sharing app […]
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How to use Apple’s new event planning ‘Invites’ app

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Techme101

Apple has released a new app called Invites that is designed to make it easy to create custom invitations for events using an iPhone or on the web. Invites is Apple’s version of Partiful, a popular invitation app that was crowned Google Play’s Best App of 2024.  Invites lets you create and share invitations, RSVP […]
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How Sam Altman Sidestepped Elon Musk to Win Over Donald Trump

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Techme101

After helping President Trump get elected, Elon Musk was poised to dominate the country’s A.I. policies. Then Mr. Altman sneaked into the White House.

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Microsoft and Nvidia Take a Quieter Approach to Trump

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Techme101

Other big technology companies have been boisterous in their courtship of the new administration. But Nvidia and Microsoft have avoided the Washington spotlight.

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Big Tech Keeps Its A.I. Data Center Spending Boom Alive

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Techme101

An apparent breakthrough in efficiency from the Chinese start-up did not make tech’s biggest companies question their extravagant spending on new data centers.

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Trump ends legal battle over Twitter ban

Posted on February 8, 2025 by Techme101

President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the company formerly known as Twitter appears to be over. Trump sued the social media platform for banning him in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, when Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. While a federal judge dismissed the suit in 2022, the then-former president’s lawyers continued to appeal. Soon […]
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Parents suing TikTok over children’s deaths say it ‘has no compassion’

Posted on February 8, 2025 by Techme101

Four families who say their children died after taking part in a viral trend in 2022 speak to the BBC about their legal fight against TikTok.

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Apple’s new research robot takes a page from Pixar’s playbook

Posted on February 8, 2025 by Techme101

Last month, Apple offered up more insight into its consumer robotics work via a research paper that argues that traits like expressive movements are key to optimizing human-robot interaction. “Like most animals,” starts the report, “humans are highly sensitive to motion and subtle changes in movement.” To illustrate its point, Apple pays homage to Pixar, […]
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