The meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin is surging after Elon Musk said in a tweet that it can now be used to buy Tesla merchandise such as the ‘Giga Texas‘ belt buckle and mini models of electric vehicles. The move, which sent Dogecoin prices as much as 20 percent higher on Friday morning, comes a month after Musk … Read more
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched more than 1,800 of its ‘Starlink’ space internet satellites into orbit. They form a constellation designed to provide low-cost broadband internet service from low Earth orbit. The constellation, informally known as Starlink, is under development at SpaceX’s facilities in Redmond, Washington. Its goal is to beam superfast internet into your home … Read more
The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft is launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on June 17, 2021 in Jiuquan, Gansu Province of China, carried on the Long March-2F rocket, to Chinese Tiangong space station July 19, 1964: China took its first official step into space, launching and recovering an experimental biological rocket carrying white mice. April 24, … Read more
SpaceX’s Starship could soon move to Florida: Elon Musk announces construction of a launch pad for the massive rocket has started at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral Elon Musk tweeted Friday that SpaceX has started construction of a Starship launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida The pad would be at Kennedy Space Center launch … Read more
Grimes was spotted walking around the streets of Los Angeles while reading Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto on Friday. The musician, 33, was seen perusing the pages of the highly-influential, 1848 text as she sported an ensemble, seemingly inspired by cosplay or fantasy themes. The book outlines the arguments and platform of the Communist party, whose goal … Read more
Elon Musk said each Cybertruck would ‘literally cost a million dollars a piece or more’ if Tesla started producing the futuristic vehicle now, adding that production is now being delayed to sometime in 2022. The statement was made during Tesla’s second-quarter earnings call Monday, which highlights the firm’s struggle to ramp up production of its … Read more
Elon Musk‘s aerospace firm SpaceX has been awarded a $178 million (£129 million) contract for NASA‘s first mission to Europa, Jupiter’s fourth largest moon. SpaceX will provide ‘launch services’ for the Europa Clipper mission, which is due to blast off in October 2024 to study Europa through a series of fly-bys, NASA said. The spacecraft will … Read more
Elon Musk has confirmed that Tesla will allow owners of other company’s electric vehicles to charge up at its Supercharger stations—adding the option will be available before the end of 2021. ‘We’re making our Supercharger network open to other EVs later this year,’ the 50-year-old CEO tweeted Tuesday. In the US, Tesla’s cars use the … Read more
Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos, already the world’s wealthiest man, has set a new record for personal net worth by topping $211 billion. Bezos, 57, gained $8.4 billion in net worth on Tuesday alone, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as Amazon stock soared 4.7 percent on the Pentagon’s announcement that it is canceling the $10 … Read more
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday that the company’s Starlink satellite internet is on track to gain ‘possibly over 500,000 users within 12 months.’ Musk, speaking via Zoom at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress 2021, added that he foresees up to $10 billion in investments before Starlink reaches positive cash and a whopping $20 to $30 … Read more
REVEALED: Billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos paid ZERO federal income tax some years, according to secret trove of IRS records from America’s 25 richest people The IRS records from the 25 wealthiest people in the United States were obtained by ProPublica and published on Tuesday The records show that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos paid … Read more
Want fries with that, Elon? Tesla files trademark applications related to possibly opening its OWN restaurants Tesla has filed trademarks for ‘restaurant services, pop-up restaurant services, self-service restaurant services, take-out restaurant services’ The idea was first brought up by CEO Elon Musk several years ago The application was signed on May 27 and will be … Read more
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has confirmed ambitious plans to build an ‘ocean spaceport’ that will be used to launch a Starship rocket to Mars in 2022. It was reported in July 2020 that the firm had acquired a pair of former oil drilling rigs for $3.5 million (£2.47 million) each that they planned to convert … Read more