The latest prototype of Elon Musk's Starship prototype has only flown about 500 feet (150 meters) in the air, but the SpaceX CEO said Monday his rocket company may begin construction of a booster prototype to pair with Starship as soon as this week. "That's gonna be pretty cool," Musk said in a keynote interview at the virtual Humans To Mars summit.

Elon Musk confirmed that he is going to Germany to review Tesla’s effort to build a new kind of vaccine printer with Curevac and the progress at Gigafactory Berlin. Earlier this year, Musk announced that Tesla has become the manufacturing partner for biotech firm CureVac who is working on a COVID-19 vaccine based on their RNA technology. The CEO announced that Tesla would be “building RNA micro-factories for CureVac,” a Germany-based company.

As a strengthening low pressure system crossed the Florida peninsula on Sunday, weather conditions at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station were poor all day. There were intermittent showers and plenty of lightning. By mid-morning, SpaceX had already canceled one launch from Florida, a mission carrying five dozen Starlink satellites. But the company held out hope for getting the second flight of a planned doubleheader off on Sunday evening, and by the time the clock ticked down on the SAOCOM-1B mission, weather conditions began to marginally improve.

At a Friday event, Elon Musk revealed more details about his mysterious neuroscience company Neuralink and its plans to connect computers to human brains. While the development of this futuristic-sounding tech is still in its early stages, the presentation was expected to demonstrate the second version of a small, robotic device that inserts tiny electrode threads through the skull and into the brain. Musk said ahead of the event he would “show neurons firing in real-time. The matrix in the matrix.”

A teenage Elon Musk once walked the streets of New York with emeralds in his pocket. His father, Errol Musk, had a casual attitude towards the family’s considerable wealth, including the stones that came from the Zambian emerald mine in which Errol owned a half share.

Musk on Friday tweeted out a meme critical of Sanders and his brand of socialism. The tweet was in response to an article about a bill Sanders introduced Thursday that would place a 60% tax on the wealth gained by billionaires such as Musk during the coronavirus pandemic. The meme, dubbed the “Official Bernie Sanders drinking game!” showed a picture of Sanders along with the text: “Every time the Bernster mentions a free government program, chug somebody else’s beer.”

After a prolonged delay, American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company, SpaceX, launched its ninth operational flight of internet satellites ‘Starlink.’ The launch comes at the cost of three delays reaching back to late June due to weather and technical issues. The lift-off was at 1:12 a.m. ET (10:12 p.m. PT) on Friday, when the company’s Falcon 9 rocket ascended from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

In a report by Independent, Musk revealed that the chip will allow the wearer to hear things that they weren't able to hear before as it was out of a human's hearing range, meaning the Neuralink chip can be used to "extend range of hearing beyond normal frequencies and amplitudes."

Elon Musk’s Tesla has become the world’s most valuable car company, quite an accomplishment for pandemic-affected 2020. And Musk has an encore planned. Tesla shares are up 227% this year, giving it a market value of roughly $175 billion. That’s quite a run. Now Musk plans to crack “level 5 autonomous driving” in the coming year. That’s the message Musk delivered Thursday at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in China.

Hidden in the code of a SpaceX website are the first official pictures of satellite dishes that will connect future subscribers to Starlink — a fleet of low-flying, internet-beaming satellites. What's more, a review of the site's code by Business Insider turned up numerous credible details about how an upcoming beta test of Starlink might work.

U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) is “very close” to achieving level 5 autonomous driving technology, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Thursday, referring to the capability to navigate roads without any driver input. “I’m extremely confident that level 5 or essentially complete autonomy will happen and I think will happen very quickly,” Musk said in remarks made via a video message at the opening of Shanghai’s annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC).

Elon Musk's electric car business exceeds the value of almost every company in the S&P 500, including some iconic American companies. Shares of Tesla (TSLA) were up 4% in midday trading Wednesday to a new record high of above $1,120 a share. At that price, Tesla's market cap is nearly $210 billion.

Three Tesla workers say they’ve been fired after opting to stay home from the Fremont, Calif., factory rather than risk being potentially exposed to the coronavirus. The company, which reopened in May in defiance of county orders at CEO Elon Musk’s direction, told workers they could remain home if they had reservations about working during a pandemic. If “you feel uncomfortable coming back to work at this time, please do not feel obligated to do so,” Musk told workers in an email as he reopened the production plant.

Elon Musk has perhaps the most exciting portfolio of businesses on the planet. There's SpaceX with its mission to Mars, and Tesla with its super-fast hi-tech electric cars. He claims his Hyperloop concept could revolutionise public transport. And even his Boring Company is kind of interesting - it aims to find new ways to dig tunnels. So which one will end up changing the world most? It is my contention that it will be his battery business.

The company still has to return two NASA astronauts safely back to Earth from the space station. In an internal email obtained by CNBC, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told his space company’s staff that they should “please consider the top SpaceX priority (apart from anything that could reduce Dragon return risk) to be Starship.”

The entrepreneur condemned the online retailer after it rejected a book about coronavirus.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg worries that some states are reopening too fast during the COVID-19 crisis. But neighbor Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has another point of view – he wants to get back to business, and he made that clear on Twitter. "Free America Now," he said in one tweet Wednesday. "Give people their freedom back," he said in another.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is protesting the various lockdowns meant to curb the novel coronavirus' spread in the US. Late on Tuesday, Musk tweeted a Wall Street Journal opinion article that called into question how effective lockdown orders were for saving lives. "Give people their freedom back!" Musk tweeted next to the article link.

Elon Musk has responded to criticism he received after sending non-invasive breathing aids to New York, which some noted could not be used to treat severe COVID-19 cases. The Tesla boss previously pledged to send ventilators to U.S. hospitals and healthcare facilities amid growing fears that supplies in some states were limited. Last month, Musk wrote on Twitter that more than 1,255 FDA-approved devices had been acquired from China and quickly flown into California.

CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk was initially skeptical of the severity of the coronavirus outbreak. Luckily, he's now changed his mind and donated over 1,000 ventilators to hospitals in California to help in the midst of the pandemic.