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  • Analysis
    1 month ago
    by kxh
    +36 +1

    Elon Only Started Buying Up Twitter Shares After Twitter Refused To Ban Plane Tracking Account

    Far from being the free-speech advocate he claims to be, Elon’s purchase of twitter suggests that from the very start a major motivation in the purchase, was to silence accounts he disliked.

  • Expression
    8 years ago
    by trails
    +25 +1

    Elon Musk’s Most Impressive Company Isn’t Tesla or SpaceX. It’s SolarCity.

    There’s a huge, ongoing, and justifiable obsession with Elon Musk and his ventures—chiefly Tesla, the electric car manufacturer, and SpaceX, his private spacecraft business. It’s not surprising a biography of the man was a best-seller this year. But to my mind, the most important and interesting venture that the polymathic...

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by geoleo
    +41 +1

    Elon Musk and Other Tech Titans Create Company to Develop Artificial Intelligence

    Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and other technology entrepreneurs are betting that talented researchers, provided enough freedom and money, can develop artificial intelligence systems as advanced as those being built by the sprawling teams at Google, Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Along the way, they’d like to save humanity from oblivion. The pair are among the backers of OpenAI, a nonprofit company introduced Friday that will research novel artificial intelligence systems and share its findings.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by aj0690
    +32 +1

    What was Elon Musk doing at the Pentagon?

    Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, met with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter Wednesday as the Pentagon looks to raise its technology game. The focus of the closed-door get together was "innovation," according to a Defense Department spokesman, although Musk is also looking to win more government business for SpaceX, which launches satellites into orbit.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by Nelson
    +34 +1

    Elon Musk provides new details on his ‘mind blowing’ mission to Mars

    Ever since Elon Musk founded a start-up space company 14 years ago, the goal has always been the same: Establishing a colony on Mars. Now he’s finally beginning to reveal how he plans to get there. Starting as soon as 2018, Musk’s SpaceX plans to fly an unmanned spacecraft to Mars. The unmanned flights would continue about every two years, timed for when Earth and Mars are closest in orbit, and, if everything goes according to plan, build toward the first human mission to Mars with the goal of landing in 2025, Musk has said.

  • Expression
    7 years ago
    by cone
    +48 +1

    First SpaceX missions to Mars: “Dangerous and probably people will die”

    As we get close to the end of September, when Elon Musk has promised to lay bare his plans for colonizing Mars at an international space conference, it seems like the ambitious founder of SpaceX can hardly contain his excitement. In an interview with The Washington Post, Musk gushed, “I’m so tempted to talk more about the details of it. But I have to restrain myself.” SpaceX fandom has speculated for years about details of Musk's ideas, which include the Mars Colonial Transporter concept. The Transporter likely consists of a large first stage rocket and...

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by drunkenninja
    +24 +1

    Tesla's entire future depends on the Gigafactory

    When you find yourself in the middle of the Nevada desert, on a 100-degree day, you wonder: who in the world would build something here? Elon Musk, of course. And so I’m here in the city of Sparks, outside of Reno, because of Musk’s dream — his "Master Plan" for Tesla, to be specific. He’s staked his entire company (and much of his net worth) on a single, enormous building here: the Gigafactory. Tesla's Gigafactory is perhaps the best example of the literal scale of Elon Musk's ambitions. When the factory is complete, it will be the largest building in the world by footprint and, if all goes according to plan, will eventually...

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by spacepopper
    +24 +1

    Elon Musk wants to sell you an entire 'solar roof'

    When in doubt, tease a new product. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla (TSLA) and chairman of SolarCity (SCTY), hopped on an earnings call Tuesday night amid acquisition talks between the two companies to announce that SolarCity plans to release a "solar roof." Not a roof with solar panels, mind you. A solar roof. "It's a solar roof as opposed to a module on a roof," Musk said on the SolarCity earnings call. "It's not a thing on the roof, it is the roof."

  • Video/Audio
    7 years ago
    by rti9
    +28 +1

    Why Elon Musk says we're living in a simulation

    You may like playing The Sims, but Elon Musk says you are the Sim.

  • Expression
    7 years ago
    by geoleo
    +11 +1

    A sudden light

    New capabilities, new entrepreneurialism and rekindled dreams are making space exciting again, says Oliver Morton SHORTLY after sunset there had been juddering green stabs of lightning to the south, but by a quarter to one in the morning there is nothing in the warm, wet July air over Cape Canaveral but a thin patchwork of moonlit cloud. And then, precisely at the time it was meant to happen, there is a sudden light on the horizon, some 18km away. A light that rises.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by Apolatia
    +29 +1

    Tesla is suing an oil company executive its says impersonated Elon Musk

    Tesla is suing an oil executive for allegedly impersonating Elon Musk in order to dig up confidential financial information from the company, Forbes reported. The lawsuit reportedly filed Wednesday in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County claimed Todd Katz, chief financial officer for Quest Integrity Group, emailed Tesla’s chief financial officer under a similar email as Musk’s looking to gain information that wasn’t disclosed in an earnings call with investors.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by hiihii
    +18 +1

    Elon Musk scales up his ambitions, considering going “well beyond” Mars

    For most of its 14 year existence, SpaceX has focused on designing and developing the hardware that will lead to its ultimate goal: colonizing Mars. These plans have remained largely secret from the general public, as company founder Elon Musk has dropped only the barest of hints. But that is expected to change on Sept. 27, during a session at the International Astronautical Congress, when Musk details some of these plans for the first time in a public forum.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by jedlicka
    +2 +1

    India offers land to Elon Musk to test Hyperloop

    As Elon Musk struggles in acquiring land rights for testing his audacious Hyperloop project in the United States, India has emerged out of nowhere to offer him a helping hand. India is offering Musk's SpaceX a big chunk of land and permission to do the required testing in Pune, a city 118 kilometers away from Mumbai. The country's Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said he made the proposal to Hyperloop's parent company SpaceX during his recent visit to the United States.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by doodlegirl
    +12 +1

    Elon Musk’s Mars Colonization Announcement: Start time, Live Blog, and Streaming

    Today, Elon Musk will finally tell the world how he wants to colonize Mars — an ambition of his that has served as the foundation for essentially all of his commercial spaceflight endeavors. Musk will specify his plans for making humans a multi-planetary species during a one-hour speech at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by 8mm
    +12 +1

    Elon Musk Will Name the First Mars-Bound Craft After a Mega-Famous Sci-Fi Ship

    The name of the first Mars-bound SpaceX craft will be named The Heart of Gold, in honor of the spaceship commandeered by Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams’s mega-famous science fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. During a question-and-answer session after his keynote speech at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, Musk revealed his desire to name at least one SpaceX ship The Heart of Gold.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by grandtheftsoul
    +3 +1

    SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to get humans to Mars in six years

    SpaceX founder Elon Musk has outlined his highly ambitious vision for manned missions to Mars, which he said could begin as soon as 2022 – three years sooner than his previous estimates. However, the question of how such extravagantly expensive missions would be funded remains largely in the dark.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by dianep
    +24 +1

    Implication of sabotage adds intrigue to SpaceX investigation

    The long-running feud between Elon Musk’s space company and its fierce competitor United Launch Alliance took a bizarre twist this month when a SpaceX employee visited its facilities at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and asked for access to the roof of one of ULA’s buildings. About two weeks earlier, one of SpaceX’s rockets blew up on a launchpad while it was awaiting an engine test.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by kong88
    +25 +1

    Tech billionaires convinced we live in the Matrix are secretly funding scientists to help break us out of it

    Some of the world’s richest and most powerful people are convinced that we are living in a computer simulation. And now they’re trying to do something about it. At least two of Silicon Valley’s tech billionaires are pouring money into efforts to break humans out of the simulation that they believe that it is living in, according to a new report.

  • Expression
    7 years ago
    by drunkenninja
    +14 +1

    Elon Musk Is Right: We Can Insure Against Extinction by Colonizing Space

    Why blow billions of dollars on space exploration when billions of people are living in poverty here on Earth? You’ve likely heard the justifications. The space program brings us useful innovations and inventions. Space exploration delivers perspective, inspiration, and understanding. Because it's the final frontier. Because it's there. What you haven’t heard is anything to inspire a sense of urgency. Indeed, NASA’s struggle to defend its existence and funding shows how weak these justifications sound to a public that cares less about space than seemingly more pressing needs.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by geoleo
    +26 +1

    NASA: We're Not Racing SpaceX to Mars

    If Elon Musk's SpaceX can get to Mars and bring samples back to Earth before the United States can get there, it would be cause for celebration not lament, said NASA's new science chief. "If Elon Musk brought the samples in the door right now I'd throw him a party out of my own money," Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's newly named associate administrator for science, told reporters Monday.