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Elon Musk: Automation Will Force Universal Basic Income
At the World Government Summit in Dubai, our real-world Tony Stark, Elon Musk, was throwing around some big and important ideas about the future of humanity. Musk says that Universal Basic Income — or an economic idea where everyone gets a paycheck from the government to spend how they wish — is one of the only solutions to the rise of robotic automation.
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Elon Musk: Launching a Satellite with SpaceX is $300 Million Cheaper
The U.S. Air Force's recently released budget reveals that the cost of a SpaceX launch is dramatically lower than that of the traditionally used United Launch Alliance. As CEO Elon Musk pointed out via Twitter, SpaceX's launch costs are so much lower, the satellites used by the company are "basically free."
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Space X's Trips To Mars Will Pretty Much Be Like A Cruise Ship
Nobody promised space travel would be easy. Well, nobody did until now. Billionaire Elon Musk is planning to make sure everyone who takes a SpaceX trip to Mars will be traveling in style, with “movies, lecture halls, cabins, and a restaurant.”
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Musk plans city on Mars
A city on Mars with a million inhabitants could be achievable within 50 years, South African space entrepreneur Elon Musk has forecast, as he laid out plans to turn mankind into a multi-planetary species. The SpaceX founder warned that humans would need to venture away from Earth to avoid a “Doomsday event” and our “eventual extinction”.
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Elon Musk's boring machine completes the first section of an LA tunnel
Elon Musk says his tunnel-boring endeavor has started digging underneath Los Angeles.
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Elon Musk Just Revealed a Major Tesla Model 3 Event Coming Soon
The wait is almost over. Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed on his Twitter page Sunday evening that the Model 3 has passed all regulatory requirements “two weeks ahead of schedule,” and the first production car should arrive shortly. To celebrate, Musk has announced possibly the most hotly anticipated event in the Model 3’s journey: the launch party.
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Tesla’s First Mass-Market Car, the Model 3, Hits Production This Week
Tesla’s long-awaited mass-market electric car will begin rolling off the assembly line this week. But even as it moves ahead, the automaker is encountering challenges to its ambitious plans for growth. On Monday, it acknowledged that it had experienced a “severe shortfall” in production of 100-kilowatt battery packs that use new technologies and are made on new assembly lines.
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Elon Musk: The world's population is accelerating toward collapse and nobody cares
Elon Musk usually tweets about mundane topics, from LA traffic to Tesla projects. On Thursday he was more dire. "The world's population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care," Tesla's CEO tweeted to his nearly 10 million followers. He pointed to a November article in New Scientist magazine titled, "The world in 2076: The population bomb has imploded."
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Elon Musk's big battery brings reality crashing into a post-truth world
For months, politicians and fossil fuel industry have lied about the viability of renewables. Now Tesla’s big battery in South Australia will prove them wrong.
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If the US really wants to go to Mars, Elon Musk knows how to bring down the price
“Our nation will return to the moon and we will put American boots on the face of Mars,” US vice president Mike Pence, newly ensconced as the head of the National Space Council, said last week in a speech at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The only problem? The US government’s plan to do this relies on an building an expensive rocket and spacecraft that is scheduled to only fly once a year. That’s been a drain on resources that has delayed design and construction of other needed ingredients...
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Elon Musk warns that AI is human society’s biggest risk
The entrepreneur Elon Musk warns that AI is the human society’s biggest risk and urged high ranking US politicians to do something about it before it’s too late. He made his points while speaking at the National Governors Association summer meeting. Musk means that if the authorities does not provide proper regulation, the industry will become autonomous and could pose a threat to jobs and also the safety of the nation. As an example he mentioned that AI’s could start a war by doing fake news.
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Elon Musk: regulate AI to combat 'existential threat' before it's too late
Tesla and Space X chief executive Elon Musk has pushed again for the proactive regulation of artificial intelligence because “by the time we are reactive in AI regulation, it’s too late”. Speaking at the US National Governors Association summer meeting in Providence Rhode Island, Musk said: “Normally the way regulations are set up is when a bunch of bad things happen, there’s a public outcry, and after many years a regulatory agency is set up to regulate that industry.
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Elon Musk’ Boring Company plans underground Hyperloop for New York-DC in ’29 mins’
Elon Musk just casually announced on Twitter that he received “verbal government approval” for The Boring Company, his new tunnel boring startup, to build an underground Hyperloop system connecting New York city, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington DC. The system would be fast enough to travel “city center to city center” between New York City and Washington DC in just 29 minutes, according to Musk.
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Elon Musk Calls for Moon Base
Elon Musk may be focused primarily on Mars, but he'd also like to see a human outpost on a world much closer to home. "To really get the public real fired up, I think we've got to have a base on the moon," the billionaire founder and CEO of SpaceX said today (July 19) at the 2017 International Space Station Research and Development (ISSR&D) conference in Washington, D.C.
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SpaceX may have canceled Red Dragon Mars mission
SpaceX appears to have canceled its planned Red Dragon mission to Mars that was set for no earlier than 2020, possibly in favor of a different approach to landing on the Red Planet.
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Elon Musk Says Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI Is Limited
Elon Musk is a man of many characteristics, one of which apparently is not shying away from calling out big names when they are not informed about a subject. A day after Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Musk's doomsday prediction of AI is "irresponsible," the Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity founder returned the favour by calling Zuckerberg's understanding of AI "limited."
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An emotional Elon Musk thanks the people who are still waiting to get their Model 3
Tesla’s handover ceremony of the Model 3 tonight was an affecting moment for CEO Elon Musk, whose casual authenticity has emerged as a distinct tech keynote style. The Model 3 is the first mass market electric car Tesla has made so far and 30 were delivered to employees tonight.
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Elon Musk Raised The Risk of AI Again in Today's Tesla Conference Call
“Artificial intelligence is just something that I think anything that represents a risk to the public deserves at least insight from the government, because one of the mandates of the government is the public wellbeing,” Musk said, responding to a question today during Tesla’s financial results conference call.
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Elon Musk: Boring Company commits to 600mph Hyperloop and tube network
Elon Musk’s Boring Company has recommitted to building a network of high-speed transport tunnels, including a Hyperloop vacuum-tube supersonic transport system between New York and Washington DC, which it claims will whisk people from A to B at 600mph in a vacuum tube.
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Tesla Faces Gigafactory Competition from Asia and Europe
For those of us waiting for affordable, long range electric cars a global race to build Gigafactories couldn’t be better news. Battery costs have consistently fallen year on year for decades but they still represent the majority of the production cost of electric vehicles.
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