Swedish startup bets big on zinc-ion batteries with world’s first megaplant
Swedish startup Enerpoly has opened the world’s first zinc-ion battery megafactory. Its vision is to scale a better alternative to lithium-ion for storing renewable energy over longer periods of time. The Enerpoly Production Innovation Center (EPIC) facility is located north…
Spain is luring digital nomads into the countryside with €15,000 grants
In Barcelona, digital nomads risk being attacked by angry water pistol-wielding locals. But other parts of sun-soaked Spain are welcoming remote workers with open arms — and wads of cash. This week, the local government of Extremadura announced it is…
New Study Reveals That Small Business Can Benefit Greatly From GenAI – If They Can Get Employees to Use It
Small businesses no longer have a binary choice in front of them on whether to use generative AI. The technology can now be found within software packages, handling small tasks in the background or being directly enlisted by employees to…
Porsche 911 Hybrid at South OC Cars and Coffee (Not What You Think)
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The Art-Science Symbiosis – We Make Money Not Art
The Art-Science Symbiosis, by biologist and Director of the Fundación Arte + Ciencia Chile Marcelo Velasco and Ignacio Nieto from University Santiago, Chile. Published by Springer-Verlag. Just like scientific practices can pull art out of its prissy self-referentiality, art can…
Europe’s unicorns have risen to €447.4B in total value, report finds
The cumulative value of Europe’s active unicorns now sits at €447.4bn — 3% higher than in 2023, according to a new report from Pitchbook. The report also found that unicorn deal value continued to show signs of recovery during the second…
The Untold Story of The Bitcoin Sign Guy
Exactly 7 years ago today, a guy held up a “Buy Bitcoin” sign at a live congressional hearing. If you would have taken his advise back then, you would have bought bitcoin at $2,337.79 per coin. Today, BTC worth $57,755…
Alana Hunt. “Everyone talks about stolen cars, and not about stolen Country” – We Make Money Not Art
Last year, Australia voted in a referendum proposing to enshrine an Indigenous voice in the country’s constitution. The vote would have given Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a chance to directly advise all levels of government on matters that…
This autonomous yacht is a mobile green hydrogen factory
In recent years, there have been several attempts at building a hydrogen boat. But UK startup Drift is navigating new territory with a vessel that isn’t hydrogen-powered, but hydrogen-producing. Drift is developing an autonomous yacht capable of making green hydrogen…
South OC Cars and Coffee Monterey Car Week Edition
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My Last Will. “Besides, it’s always the others who die” – We Make Money Not Art
What remains after you’re gone? For most of us, the answer to the question translates into money and material goods that might be passed on to friends and family. Ask that same question to an artist and their reaction might…
AI startup offers to enhance your tennis swing — and your racket
SportAI has grand plans for tennis analytics. The startup wants to not only enhance a player’s technique, but also the racket they swing. The Norway-based business analyses sports footage in real-time. It then delivers instant, personalised feedback. For tennis players,…
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…