Podcast. Episode 5, Paolo Pedercini about social justice, satire and video games – We Make Money Not Art
Paolo Pedercini is the guest of the fifth episode of the podcast series I did with artists who 1. are among my absolute cultural heroes and 2. have exhibited at Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art in Ljubljana. Molleindustria, The Best…
Ukraine’s new F-16 simulator spotlights a ‘paradigm shift’ led by XR
To the average eye, extended reality is starting to look bleak. The metaverse has bombed, the Apple Vision Pro has flopped, and Sony has all but abandoned the PSVR. Sadly for Mark Zuckerberg, consumers rarely want to strap computers to…
Dutch startup targets remote patient monitoring with its smart stethoscope
Amsterdam-based Lapsi Health is looking to firmly position itself in the rapidly-evolving market of smart medical devices. The startup announced yesterday the US launch of its first clinical support tool, a digital stethoscope, after receiving clearance from the Food and…
Works Fall True / Workers and thinkers of the world, unite! – We Make Money Not Art
Review of the book Works Fall True. Selected works by Ryts Monet. Edited by Francesco D’Abbraccio, Andrea Facchetti, Andrea Catherine Steves. Published by Krisis Publishing. Texts in both English and Italian. The publisher explains that the book is “embarking on…
Big wave surfer emerges from the barrel with $120M fund for regenerative agriculture
What do the Rothschilds, big wave surfing, and cows have in common? A Portuguese man by the name of Francisco Roque de Pinho, of course. Francisco used to be a banker at Rothschild, the most famous of European banking dynasties….
Podcast. Episode 4, Jill Magid about interacting with spy services, bureaucracies and law-enforcement agencies – We Make Money Not Art
Jill Magid is the guest of the fourth episode of the podcast series I did with artists who 1. are among my absolute cultural heroes and 2. have exhibited at Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art in Ljubljana. Jill Magid is…
AI will turn smartphones into ‘proactive assistants’
Arm wants to upgrade the brains inside our mobile devices. The chip designer — whose architectures power 99% of smartphones — envisions AI bringing a new wave of breakthroughs to our handsets. The company outlined this plan after the release of Llama 3.2 —…
Kotlin vs Java in the wake of AI
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape the tech landscape, developers are increasingly faced with the task of selecting which programming languages are the most beneficial and effective in terms of AI development. Taking into consideration the rapid growth of AI…
30 Important Questions to Ask a Franchisor Before Investing
Investing in a franchise business can be profitable, but it is crucial to do your due diligence before making any commitments. Asking the right questions to the franchisor can help you understand the business model, the support you’ll receive, and…
Podcast. Episode 3, UBERMORGEN on taking risks and playing with system vulnerabilities – We Make Money Not Art
UBERMORGEN are the guests of the third episode of the podcast series I did with artists who 1. are among my absolute cultural heroes and 2. have exhibited at Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art in Ljubljana. UBERMORGEN, The Silver Singularity,…
Future Tech Ventures launches with €20M fund for startups in Northern Netherlands
Future Tech Ventures (FTV), a new venture capital firm focusing on startups in the Northern Netherlands, officially launched yesterday in Groningen. FTV debuted with a €20mn fund that will support at least 50 high-tech startups in the proof-of-concept phase. The investment…
surveillance, Gaza, ufology – We Make Money Not Art
Last week, i took the train to Bologna to visit Robert Kuśmirowski‘s solo show and the PhMuseum Days international photo festival. Kuśmirowski was the Kuśmirowski i was hoping to see. PhMuseum Days, however, was full of surprises. The location, DumBO’s…
Algorithm startup QMill vows to become ‘first to provide quantum advantage’
Espoo outside of Helsinki is turning into quite the quantum hub. The city’s latest addition to the Finnish quantum computing ecosystem is QMill. The newly minted algorithm startup just raised €4mn in seed funding to leverage near-term hardware to deliver…
Str8 Up South OC Cars and Coffee
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The Future Behind Us. Episode 2, Nora Al-Badri – We Make Money Not Art
Nora Al-Badri is the guest of the second episode of the podcast series I did with artists who 1. are among my absolute cultural heroes and 2. have exhibited at Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art in Ljubljana. Nora Al-Badri is…
Heart Aerospace unveils 30-seater electric aircraft prototype
Swedish startup Heart Aerospace has unveiled its first full-scale demonstrator hybrid-electric aircraft as it targets commercial flight by the end of 2029, a year later than previously planned. Heart revealed the prototype, dubbed HX-1, at its hangar in Gothenburg yesterday,…
Food Truck Name Ideas
If you buy something through our links, we may earn money from our affiliate partners. Learn more. The right name can attract customers to your food truck and make the experience memorable. Many factors go into determining the perfect food…
AI Snake Oil. What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t and How to Tell the Difference – We Make Money Not Art
AI Snake Oil. What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference, by Arvind Narayanan, a professor of computer science at Princeton and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy, and Sayash Kapoor,…
This Swedish startup wants to pay the flight tracking community using blockchain
One of the most popular pastimes you may or may not have heard about is flight tracking. For instance, in September 2022, the Royal Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III carrying Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin from Edinburgh to an RAF…
The UK could be home to ‘quantum Nvidia’, says algorithm startup
The governmental deep tech funding landscape in the UK has been in a bit of a turmoil over the past few months. Funds have been promised by one government and then whisked away by another in the space of less…
Pininfarina B95 Gotham at South OC Cars and Coffee
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The Future Behind Us. Episode 1, Trevor Paglen – We Make Money Not Art
I’ve done countless interviews with artists where we talk about their latest and upcoming projects. And I’ve had countless informal conversations with artists where they told me all sorts of amusing, terrible or astonishing anecdotes about their past works: how…
Vega launches Sentinel-2C in ‘fitting’ swan song for European rocket
Europe’s first-generation Vega rocket has blasted a payload into space for the last time. Vega lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana in the early hours of this morning. It was carrying Sentinel-2C, an Earth observation platform that…
The Biennale de l’Image Possible. Portrays of a world entering unruly territories – We Make Money Not Art
The Biennale de l’Image Possible/BIP, an artistic cultural biennial based in Liège, questions the nature of today’s images and our relationship with them. The theme of the last edition was transformations. Its subtitle was MUTANTX and its scope was fiercely…