Reuters Twitter spent $ 33m (£27m) on Elon Musk’s proposed deal to buy the firm between April and June 2022. It also said its number of monthly daily users had risen to 237m – but it reported a net loss of $ 270m, which was worse than expected. Mr Musk has since changed his mind […]
Neuralink Neuralink, Elon Musk’s computer to brain interface firm, has released a video it claims shows a monkey playing the video game Pong with its mind. Its brain signals were sent wirelessly via an implanted device. The hope is that the interface could eventually allow people with neurological conditions to control phones or computers remotely. […]
Tesla must give a fired worker his job back and chief executive Elon Musk must delete a tweet discouraging unionization, the National Labor Relations Board ordered Thursday, upholding much of a 2019 ruling on Tesla’s alleged unfair labor practices. The board found that Tesla unlawfully interrogated workers over suspected unionization efforts, threatened workers with the […]
Tesla stock spiraled in Friday’s trading, shedding 3.4 percent by market close following a flurry of news about chief executive Elon Musk’s Twitter activity. Musk boasted early Friday to his nearly 50 million Twitter followers that his company could be “the biggest” in a few months. It came less than a day after the National […]
EPA Elon Musk, the chief executive of the US electric carmaker Tesla, says his firm would be “shut down” if its vehicles were used for spying on China. His comments came in response to reports that China’s military had banned Tesla cars from its facilities. The military had raised security concerns about the data collected […]
SpaceX’s Starlink service is already serving more than 10,000 people with broadband beamed down from space. Elon Musk, the chief of California-based SpaceX, has just revealed how he sees the $ 10 billion project progressing over the next couple of years as the company continues with regular rocket launches to deploy its Starlink satellites in low-Earth […]
We all know that 2020 was a no-good, horrible, fearful, tumultuous year that will be remembered for the coronavirus pandemic and the polarizing election. But for space enthusiasts, it was actually quite a good year, providing bits of promising news amid the bleak headlines of disease, economic hardship and protests. 2021 has potential for even […]
Emma Bell usually uses Twitter the way most of us do: for browsing funny web comics, procrastinating and communicating with their colleagues in the scientific community. Bell, a postdoctoral fellow who researches cancer genomics using bioinformatics at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, will also occasionally correct a bit of misinformation they see online. […]
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The tweet ricocheted around social media, retweeted more than 4,000 times. Musk, with his 35.6 million followers, replied to the tweet, calling the decision “insane.” He directed his comments to Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post. “Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!” Musk added. Within a few hours, Amazon […]
Since its founding in 2002, SpaceX has achieved remarkable feats few thought possible. It was able to design rockets that not only propelled their payloads to orbit, but landed back on Earth to be reused. It launched the Falcon Heavy, a monster of a rocket with three boosters and 27 engines. It opened up the […]
The company was never supposed to succeed. Even its founder gave it odds few gamblers would take — 1 in 10. But Elon Musk decided to go all in anyway, investing some $ 100 million of his own money, over the protests of his friends, family and the basic logic that said a private entrepreneur […]
It is one of the most prominent examples of a powerful business figure defying local health orders amid the response to the novel coronavirus. Tesla on Saturday filed suit against Alameda County, where its Fremont, Calif., factory is located, seeking an injunction against orders to stay closed. The suit alleged violations of the due process […]
SpaceX Elon Musk tweeted out two new photos showing how work on SpaceX’s Starship rocket prototype is coming along. The commercial space company expects to fly the ship to the moon and hopes to use it to help establish a colony on Mars In a tweet posted on Tuesday and captioned with “Droid Junkyard, Tatooine” […]
Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Tesla’s Elon Musk took opposing views of the risks and potential rewards of artificial intelligence at an event in Shanghai. The Chinese entrepreneur said he was “quite optimistic” about AI and thought it was nothing for “street smart” people like them to be scared of. “I don’t know man, that’s like […]