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After it reopened in defiance of health department orders last May, Tesla’s plant in Fremont, California saw 450 cases of COVID-19 through December 2020, new data from legal website PlainSite shows (via The Washington Post). Last March public health officials in Alameda County, where the Fremont plant is located, restricted…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)Elon Musk’s tweets have landed him in hot water with shareholders—again. This time, he and the Tesla board are staring down a suit from one disgruntled investor who claims some of the CEO’s tweets violate a 2019 settlement Musk had reached with the Securities and Exchange…

By Jonathan Stempel Topics Elon Musk | Tesla | Securities and Exchange Commission Reuters  Last Updated at March 13, 2021 03:55 IST By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk has been sued by a shareholder who accused him of violating his 2018 settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…

Clubhouse — the new social media platform based on live audio conversations — began as a space dominated by Silicon Valley and tech influencers. But it has steadily grown over the last few months into a broader platform that now hosts everyone from U.S. billionaires to Chinese dissidents. Talks by…

Elon Musk just hit a new milestone: He made a record $25 billion in one day. Tesla Inc.’s 20% jump on Tuesday — its biggest in more than a year — pushed the billionaire founder’s fortune to $174 billion, closing the gap with Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, according…

First to Orbit ? SpaceX Starship, Blue Origin New Glenn or ULA SLS Brian Wang | March 11, 2021 | Which of the major new rockets (SpaceX Starship, Blue Origin New Glenn or United Launch Alliance SLS) will reach orbit first? Below are the current target dates. Obviously I believe…

FOR A MAN of creative genius, monkish calm and austere wabi sabi aesthetic, Jack Dorsey is remarkably good at making investors mad. Scott Galloway, a podcaster and business-school professor, has raged on air to have him sacked from Twitter, which Mr Dorsey co-founded and runs, and in which Mr Galloway…

China is sending more signals that it will move aggressively toward building its own satellite network in space to realized applications such as Starlink, a satellite internet constellation being constructed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. On March 7, Bao Weimin, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative…

In brief: Elon Musk's latest secret project is a large grid battery in Texas designed to increase its electrical grid stability. And while it's not the first nor the only grid storage system Tesla has ever built, this could be a boon for the company's ambition to become a decentralized…

True commercial success is clearly emerging for the space industry. Space enthusiasts are fortunate that Elon Musk and other true believers in the future of space are leading the way. From the late 1960s to the 1970s, there was hope for a space boom. This era had the L5 Society…