TNW Conference 2025 theme spotlight: AI and Deeptech
Debates about AI are everywhere these days. Families are chatting about its impacts on their lives. Politicians are deliberating over the laws that oversee it. Workers are talking about the risks of job automation. Entrepreneurs are chewing over the business…
Theatre of Dis-Operations. (Act I. A Disarmament). Disobedience, sabotage and desertion – We Make Money Not Art
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimates that, between 2014-18 and 2019-23, European states nearly doubled their arms imports. Which suggests —-to no one’s surprise– that belligerent tensions are on the rise and, with them, the profits of the weapon…
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…
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…
Autoscriber teams up with Microsoft to scale ambient clinical intelligence software
Microsoft has partnered with medical note taking software startup Autoscriber to further scale the latter’s software across the EMEA region. The company’s speech-based AI tool frees up large chunks of doctors’ time and allows them to stay focused on their…
16 Sign Fails – Small Business Trends
Some of life’s funniest moments are completely accidental. That’s definitely the case when it comes to some of the funniest and most hilarious signs. Whether they arose from careless design, normal wear and tear or human intervention, a funny sign…
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 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 —…
Must-Have Tool for Effective Business Planning
If you’re a busy business person looking for a creative outlet and a fun way to keep organized and productive, the 25 bullet journal printables we’ll reveal in this article are the perfect solution. With one simple package, you can…
London, Paris, Amsterdam are the leading VC ecosystems in Europe, report finds
London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin are the leading VC ecosystems in Europe, but the region is significantly lagging behind the US and Asia. That’s according to the latest report by PitchBook analysts, who ranked global VC ecosystems based on their…
Planet Fitness Franchise Ownership FAQs
If you love going to the gym, a Planet Fitness franchise business is a perfect fit for you. In fact, you can choose from several roles – franchise ownership with management, or franchise ownership with an owner who’s actively involved…
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…