Modding Supercars at South OC Cars and Coffee
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Pareidolia. AI finds faces on grains of sand – We Make Money Not Art
We might not encounter the face of the Virgin Mary on a grilled cheese sandwich, the head of Boris Johnson in a chicken korma or a teddy bear on Mars every day but most of us have “seen” animals in…
Norway wealth fund thanks tech for $138B, but worries about stock
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is celebrating a $138 billion profit from the first half of the year, but has put the champagne on ice. The $1.6 trillion fund credited the returns to investments in tech. Driven by surging demand for…
Shelby CSX2900 VIP Launch Event At Petersen Automotive Museum
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One Star Review Tour. Interview with !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Selena Savić, Gordan Savičić – We Make Money Not Art
Google Maps has become an essential source of information for people who visit or live in a city. While Tripadvisor targets tourists, Google Maps aims to be used by everyone to review any type of activity or location, hotels and…
Google DeepMind’s new AI robot plays table tennis at ‘human level’
China is currently busy accumulating most of the gold medals in the table tennis events in the Paris Olympics. Meanwhile, an AI-powered robot from Google DeepMind has achieved “amateur human level performance” in the sport. In a study published in…
Going Out In Style At South OC Cars and Coffee
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PL’AI. An AI robot created to play with cucumber plants – We Make Money Not Art
Humans play. Dogs and cats play. The animals that we eat after they’ve spent a miserable life in warehouses like to play. Even insects. Bees, for example, have been found to engage in playful activities. But plants? Sessile and silent,…
Sweden’s startup ecosystem retains EU lead, but loses momentum
Sweden remains the leading startup ecosystem in the EU, second only to the UK in Europe as a whole. That’s according to this year’s Global Startup Ecosystem Index Report by StartupBlink. In the past decade, the Nordic nation has emerged…
2025 Ford Maverick Lobo At South OC Cars and Coffee
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State of Emergency. How do you document colonial abuses when archives have been destroyed? – We Make Money Not Art
In 1952, members of the Kikuyu tribe, known as the Mau Mau, began a guerrilla campaign against the regime of dispossession and violence in the British Kenya colony. In October that year, the Governor of Kenya Evelyn Baring declared a…
Google DeepMind launches 2B parameter Gemma 2 model
Google DeepMind announced today the release of the 2 billion (2B) parameter version of Gemma 2, the second generation of its Gemma AI models. First launched in February this year, Gemma is a family of lightweight, text-to-text open models designed…
Checking Out The Cars At South OC Cars and Coffee
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7 art and tech ideas I discovered at Meta.Morf 2024 – [up]Loaded Bodies – We Make Money Not Art
This year, Meta.Morf 2024 – [up]Loaded Bodies, the Trondheim Biennale for Art and Technology, is exploring “the physical and technological body caught between virtual ecstasy and digital obesity.” The conferences, performances and exhibitions examines whether the digital lives up to…
Grok chatbot trains on X user data in ‘very likely’ breach of EU law
Elon Musk could have yet another problem with the European Union. Musk’s X has enabled the Grok chatbot to be trained on data from any user. This feature is now on by default, which may breach EU rules. Deep within…
Having a Jolly Good Time At South OC Cars and Coffee
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War as a consumer good – We Make Money Not Art
Many Europeans grew up in countries where compulsory military service had been abolished. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, however, is a brutal reminder that peace on the old continent should never be taken for granted. Debates around the rise in defence…
Cemvision cements deal with Vattenfall for greener concrete
Swedish green cement startup Cemvision has inked a deal with energy giant Vattenfall, as industrial companies look to cut their emissions from one of the world’s most polluting materials. Cemvision has devised a greener way to make cement. It uses…
Bugatti Tourbillon – What a 9,000 RPM V16 Sounds Like
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True Colors. Sabotaging the deceitful ecological narrative of the automotive industry – We Make Money Not Art
Jeep claims to be “Inspired by Nature”, Toyota SUVs are engineered for off-road driving, other brands show their monster cars scaling the heights of mountain landscapes, crossing turbulent rivers, cutting through dense forests, speeding through deserts, etc. The use of…
Caroline Viarouge on EIT Manufacturing and EU-UK collaboration
Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode,…
When forbidden flowers escape from the lab – We Make Money Not Art
Petunias can be red, blue, violet and white. Not orange. Never. Unless they have been genetically modified. Klaus Pichler, The Petunia Carnage, 2022 Klaus Pichler, The Petunia Carnage, 2022Klaus Pichler, The Petunia Carnage, 2022 In 2015, plant scientist Teemu Teeri…
New hope for VanMoof as troubled ebike maker resumes sales
Dutch ebike maker VanMoof has begun selling ebikes on its own website once more, following an almost year-long hiatus after it went bankrupt in July last year. The models on offer are refreshed versions of the S5 and A5, which…
Understand Your Customer More With AI at Strategic Marketing West 2024
AI is revolutionizing marketing by offering powerful tools to analyze consumer behavior and personalize experiences. By harnessing AI’s predictive capabilities, marketers can anticipate customer needs, delivering tailored content and offers in real time. Strategic Marketing West 2024 will showcase how…