African VC returns are up
Eleven exits, realised multiples of up to five times, and, rarest of all, actual cash back in investors' pockets.
By James
A Two Year Race To Record Every Human Move.
We’re at the stage of the future where our species seems to be moving past privacy concern all together for the sake of no longer doing exhausting chores. One company will clean your apartment for free in exchange for the footage. In more than 50 countries, the same trade is now being made by the hour.
By James
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Scipio Networks signs with Thales
A young German defence-software company, Scipio Networks, has agreed to plug its military-logistics platform into a Thales command system: a Franco-German tie-up aimed at closing the gap between what commanders plan and what their supply lines can actually deliver.
Written by James
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I Have Found God and She Is From South Shields
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The writers who let you watch them write
Werber’s cathedral of strings, Auster’s blue notebook, Tesson’s cabin on the Baikal. On the books that put the writing desk inside the frame, and on what it would take to sit down at one.
By Malak Yacoubi
Extreme heatwave, an ex advisor to the prime minister & other art shenanigans
A walk through one Paris evening, a 25-year-old painter and a room full of people deciding what counts as good.
By Anas Ben Mejdoub
PowerPoint Slides and Other Small Absurdities
A meditation on kittens, capitalism and the bluish colour of veins, and what is left when life stops being a list of milestones.
By Ghita Benhayoune