Elon Musk

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:…

Some of history's best ideas emerged from a generalist perspective, such as Charles Babbage's invention of computational machines based on his knowledge of silk-weaving, or Henry Ford's assembly line based on his knowledge of meatpacking plants. In fact, many studies have shown that the best ideas are based on insights…

This week SpaceX posted two new jobs for "offshore operations engineers" in Brownsville, Texas.Elon Musk, who founded the aerospace company in 2002, all but confirmed in a tweet on Tuesday that the jobs are to help build "floating, superheavy-class spaceports" for its next-generation Starship vehicle.Ocean-platform launches as a concept is…

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…

Elon Musk’s Boring Company is already looking to dig more tunnels in Las Vegas, Nevada, after it finished excavating the first two under the city’s convention center last month. Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom tweeted a map last week that shows a proposed set of tunnels that would run west…

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…

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…

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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…