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According to AP, Elon Musk is planning to hire remote support staff to, along with other duties, handle complaints people tweet at him. The news agency reports that among the job responsibilities of Tesla, Energy Support Specialists are to resolve or redirect grievances as needed and to “address social media…

Photo: Jae C. Hong / Wikimedia Commons You'd be surprised to find that Elon Musk has created innovative inventions, from online financial services to brain chips that can cure diseases. Years ago, people saw 2021 as the year of flying cars. Although we haven't exactly replicated this prediction, it seems…

Photo: ROBYN BECK / Contributor (Getty Images)Back in 2018, Elon Musk’s The Boring Company released a bunch of limited edition flame-throwing devices as a bizarre promotional gimmick for the tunnel-digging startup. Officially dubbed “Not A Flamethrower” on the company’s own website, the devices could not, as CNN pointed out at…

Photo by random stranger in the crowd Mark Harris has put together an amazing report for TechCrunch on the legal troubles that have befallen buyers of the Boring Company’s flame-throwing device. Part of what makes it worth a read is that it digs up stories you may have not heard…

After two days locked up in an Italian prison, American Max Craddock was finally able to make his case to a judge. “It’s not a weapon of war,” his lawyer told the investigating magistrate. “It’s a toy they sell to children.” Craddock had been arrested in the Sardinian port city…

Facepalm: Tesla CEO Elon Musk gets quite a lot of attention on social media -- much of it is positive, but a fair portion of it is rather critical. To stem the tide of complaints Musk receives on any given day, Tesla will be hiring dedicated employees who will (among…

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Signal said on Saturday that it had restored service following an outage that began Friday morning. The app began experiencing technical difficulties as its new users skyrocketed after competing service WhatsApp announced controversial new changes to its privacy policy. Signal said some users may notice errors in their chats, but…

Elon Musk has become one of this editor’s favorite follows. Sharing a Monty Python clip? Dude, who WOULDN’T love that? Now, does he say that he’s making a statement about the current state of this country? No. But knowing how vocal he has been when opposing any sort of lockdown…

Jeremy Liew is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners who found hot startups like Snapchat and Whisper before everyone else. Lightspeed This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Affirm became a public company on Wednesday and two days in, investors still…