SpaceX pulled off another successful rocket landing this morning — and this time during the day on the coast of Florida. A Falcon 9 rocket successfully touched down at SpaceX’s ground-based landing zone at Cape Canaveral after launching to space. It’s the third time that SpaceX has landed its rocket on solid ground post-launch, but…
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A Man Destroyed His Tesla To Save Unconscious Driver, Tesla Covers Repair Costs
It feels good to be the hero, and for the driver that exposed his Tesla (and himself) to danger in order to save another driver, it won’t even be very costly. A 41-year-old Manfred Kick was driving his Tesla Model S when he noticed a man in a Volkswagen driving erratically on the Autobahn near…
Elon Musk And The Tunnel From His Office to the Airport
Elon Musk likes to show off his toys, and the latest may (or may not) be a component of his new tunnel boring efforts designed to defeat the scourge of Los Angeles traffic. On Friday, amid widespread criticism related to his advisory connections to the Trump administration, Musk showed that he was nevertheless undeterred in…
SpaceX To Relaunch On January, No More Explosions?
It was definitely a downtime for SpaceX owner Elon Musk and the whole of his company when the Falcon 9 rocket exploded on September 1st in Cape Canaveral. But Musk is firm in taking things where he left them off and continue. SpaceX will be back on its track on January. How sure will they…
Build Your Own Rocket Launch Tool To Beat SpaceX
The Atlas rocket is a favorite of the US military, but its manufacturer, United Launch Alliance (ULA), needs to drum up commercial business for it. How else but with a snazzy website? On ULA’s RocketBuilder.com, prospective customers can spec out the cost of their space transit needs, based on their choice of launch window, rocket…
NASA Calls SpaceX To Survey The World’s Oceans
SpaceX has won another mission — this time, to survey the world’s oceans. NASA announced last week that it had tapped SpaceX to launch a satellite that would “make the first-ever global survey of Earth’s surface water.” It is by no means the first time Elon Musk’s ambitious company has partnered with the space agency…
Microsoft Is Partnering With Elon Musk’s OpenAI Project
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research non-profit backed by Tesla’s Elon Musk, Y Combinator’s Sam Altman, a Donald Trump fan called Peter Thiel, and numerous other tech luminaries, is partnering with Microsoft to tackle the next set of challenges in the still-nascent field. OpenAI will also make Microsoft Azure its preferred cloud platform, in part because…
Trump’s Victory May Affect Tesla’s Solar Investments
Newly elected president Donald Trump is an ardent climate change denier, and that spells trouble for Tesla’s new venture into solar energy. During the first presidential debate, Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton sparred with Trump over his views on climate change and his controversial statement that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. In…
How Can You Be As Successful As Bill Gates Steve Jobs Or Elon Musk
“How Can I Be As Great As Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk Or Richard Branson?”, This question was asked on Quora and none other than Justine Musk, ex-wife of Elon Musk replied to the question and the answer is fascinating. Elon Reeve Musk is a South African-born, Canadian-American entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor. He…
Advanced AI May Shut Down The Internet According to Elon Musk
The internet is about to become a vicious, chaotic battlefield, and Elon Musk says advanced AI could make the carnage even worse. According to a short exchange on Musk’s Twitter today, the systems that keep the internet running are particularly vulnerable to simple, brute-force computing attacks — the kind of cyberwarfare that artificial intelligence excel…
Elon Musk Says Solar Roof Tiles Will Defrost Themselves
Hold onto your butts solar aficionados, the next generation solar roof is coming, and it looks good. During a brief event Friday night, Elon Musk presented his plan to integrate solar roof tiles with Powerwall power packs. But that’s not all. On Saturday Musk expanded on his talk by explaining via Twitter that the new…
Inside Tesla’s New Solar Roof
Ahead of a proposed vote to merge with Tesla, Solar City shareholders and anybody with a livestream got the chance to see what the solar panel company is up to during a brief event on Friday night, hosted by, naturally, Elon Musk. The Tesla CEO and Solar City chairman spoke from a stage set up…