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Welcome to Muskville — "I think we need, probably, on the order of 1,000 ships." Eric Berger - Mar 5, 2020 12:00 pm UTC Enlarge / Three barrels welded together are lowered onto a pressure dome for SN2 at the South Texas Launch Site this week.BOCA CHICA BEACH, Texas—How badly…

“If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then games will be indistinguishable from reality, or civilization will end. One of those two things will occur,” Elon Musk told Joe Rogan during his infamous pot-smoking podcast appearance in September 2018. “Therefore, we are most likely in a simulation, because…

A large asteroid will fly close to but won't hit Earth next month, according to NASA data.CNN reports that the asteroid, predicted to be between 1.1 and 2.5 miles wide is scheduled to fly past Earth on 29 April at 4:56am ET.First spotted in 1998, the asteroid named 52768 (1998…

Home News Spaceflight This still from an Spadre.com video shows SpaceX's Starship SN1 booster as it appeared to burst during a pressure test at the company's Boca Chica, Texas test site on Feb. 29, 2020. Elon Musk seems to be taking SpaceX's recent Starship setback in stride.On Friday night (Feb.…

*'UNDER PRESSURE' INTRO PLAYS* On Twitter, SpaceX founder Elon Musk joked that "It's fine, we'll just buff it out." Want more videos like this? Every day we send an email with the top videos from Digg. SHIFTING GOALPOSTS Sergio Rivas was one of the nation's top college soccer players and…

Elon Musk confirms car-sized space rock isn't his Tesla Roadster Vid Earth has a mini-moon: a space rock close enough to be a near-Earth asteroid spotted this month orbiting our planet. The object, known as 2020 CD3, was reported by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, a small organisation…

This story is available exclusively on Business Insider Prime. Join BI Prime and start reading now. SolarCity dominated the rooftop solar industry in the years before it was acquired by Tesla in 2016.Now the firm, part of Tesla's energy business, has just 4.6% of the market share, according to the…

Roundup Hello readers. If you're struggling to keep up with all the AI-related news spewed out and have already read what we've covered this week, then here's more. Me, sexist? No! What’s gender anyway?: Google’s Vision API, a service that offers pre-trained computer vision models for image recognition, will no…

Elon Musk's girlfriend Grimes says she's seven months pregnant, sharing the news in an Instagram post promoting a magazine interview.She spoke with The Face magazine, telling it the unborn baby had been exposed to lots of techno music.Grimes also spoke about the constant abuse she received on social media, which…

Virgin GalacticVirgin Galactic has been on a torrid rally that's sent the stock up 223% for the year through Wednesday's close.  Shares jumped as much as 12% in early trading Thursday, the ninth straight day of gains.  "A modest correction is overdue, and frankly, healthy in our opinion," Morgan Stanley…