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Elon Musk reiterated his support for universal basic income (UBI) on Monday in response to a tweet from Martin Luther King's daughter Bernice.Bernice King tweeted about her father's advocacy of guaranteed income, which has been backed by 11 US mayors in a new coalition. Guaranteed income, the mayors explain, differs from…

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)Some Tesla workers who were originally informed they were not “obligated” to show up for shifts at the company’s Fremont, California production facility as it reopened during the coronavirus pandemic have in fact received termination notices, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.Tesla employees Carlos Gabriel and…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says Septeber 15 is the tentative date for the electric car company's shareholder meeting, and “Battery Day,” at which it Musk is expected to show off advances in battery technology. Elon previously boasted that “Battery Day” will be “one of the most of exciting days in…

Tesla is seeking up to $68 million in property tax abatement from a Texas school district to build a factory that will be used to produce Model Y crossovers for the East Coast market as well as its upcoming Cybertruck pickup. The application to the Del Valle School District located in…

Welcome to TNW Pride 2020! All throughout June we’ll highlight articles that focus on representation for LGBTQPIA+ people in the STEM communities. Can we have a grown-up conversation about those “gender swap” filters you can find in photo apps? I bring it up because this image is going viral today:…

A new level of Elon Musk love.  Salina Gomez/Screenshot by Shelby Brown/CNET Elon Musk's Twitter feed is rarely dull. To be fair, the SpaceX CEO warned us long ago he is "always crazy on Twitter." Followers have scratched their heads over tweets ranging from "Door hinge" to philosophical ponderings that…

eMarketer tries to quantify the rise of e-commerce, Reddit’s co-founder steps down from the board and SpaceX focuses on its next-generation spacecraft. Here’s your Daily Crunch for June 8, 2020. 1. US e-commerce sales to jump 18% in 2020, but not enough to offset retail’s decline U.S. e-commerce sales will…

A colossal chess game of immense consequences is being fought in outer space, right now. On March 18 and April 22 2020, two rockets from SpaceX, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, each put 60 satellites into orbit. Those launches are but the sixth and seventh in a series intended to rapidly make 1,584 satellites…

Elon Musk teased his 35 million Twitter followers by saying he would express an opinion that would "probably get him into trouble."The Tesla CEO followed this up by saying he didn't understand how people are still incarcerated for dealing marijuana, while cannabis stores in some states were considered an essential…

The old saying goes that there exists but two certainties in life: death & taxes. Turns out there’s a third. Be it global pandemic or widespread civil unrest — US billionaires get richer. Not only has the wealth of the American billionaire class swelled by 19% since COVID-19 shutdowns began (up $565 billion…