Could Bavaria be the next Silicon Valley?

🇩🇪 Could Bavaria become the ‘California of Europe’?

A €5.5bn investment in AI and space aims to turn the German region of Bavaria into the "California of Europe." Home to some of Europe’s most valuable unicorns and with growing attention from VCs, could this rising hub become a player on the global stage?

Anne Sraders, Miriam Partington and John Thornhill for Sifted

🥧 Travel the globe through its pies

From a vending machine in Texas to a historic church in Minneapolis to the English birthplace of Banoffi, pies have the power to showcase regional flavors with a rich taste of social and political history on the side.

Diana Hubbell for Atlas Obscura

At the same moment Europe’s most popular tourist cities face challenges and tensions, the continent's villages are fading away due to depopulation. Could leveraging nomads for economic growth in rural areas offer a solution?

Kavita Ashton for Euro News

The US, China, and Japan all have military bases in Djibouti, a tiny African country that’s become a strategic hotspot in an increasingly volatile international power landscape. Why is this tiny country—home to the smallest national population in Africa—drawing attention from global powers?

Johnny Harris for YouTube

😩 Yes, we still have to work

If we give everybody free money through a universal basic income or social dividend program, would that mean the end of the “work” era and the beginning of something else? Not exactly.

Noah Smith for Noahpinion

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