Ocado-backed network of Hyperloop-style underground tunnels for delivering packages across London moves a step closer after raising £1.5 million. Magway, based in Wembley, London, was founded in 2017 by Rupert Cruise, an engineer on Elon Musk‘s Hyperloop project, and Phill Davies, business expert. They took to crowdfunding website crowdcube in November in the hope of raising £750,000, … Read more
Elon Musk claims it ‘won’t be long’ before Tesla’s flagship Model S can travel 400 miles on a single charge The CEO says that Tesla batteries will soon reach 400 miles on one charge That claim mirrors the company’s focus on improving battery cell technolgoy Current models top out at a little more than 370 … Read more
Elon Musk releases his first electronic dance music track ‘Don’t Doubt Ur Vibe’ and changes his Twitter name to E “D” M — but is scorned by followers who urge him to ‘stick to rockets’ By Ian Randall For Mailonline Published: 13:18 GMT, 31 January 2020 | Updated: 13:18 GMT, 31 January 2020 Elon Musk … Read more
Israeli scientists use a $300 living room projector to trick Tesla’s Autopilot feature with fake signs and lane markers displayed on the road Researchers at Ben-Gurion University in Israel tested Tesla’s Autopilot They used commonly available TV projectors to cast false images on the road They tricked the car into reacting to false lane markers, … Read more
SpaceX is finally set to launch its next batch of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit, after two days of frustrating delays. The cluster of satellites was first set to take-off on Monday from Cape Canaveral but SpaceX postponed take-off due to ‘strong upper level winds’. A rescheduled launch for 24 hours later was then revealed, with … Read more
Moment Tesla CEO Elon Musk is seen enjoying a Sunday drive in the passenger seat of his personal Cybertruck Instagram user shared a short clip of Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a Cybertruck The video was taken on a street in Hawthorne, California on Sunday Musk was seated in the passenger seat and gave the … Read more
SpaceX has been forced to delay today’s launch of another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit. The cluster of satellites was set to be launched at 9:49 ET (14:49 GMT) from Cape Canaveral but SpaceX announced via Twitter it was standing down. ‘Strong upper level winds’ were cited as the reason for the cancellation and it is … Read more
SpaceX will try to catch its astronaut-bearing ‘Crew Dragon’ capsules in giant nets as they return from orbit, Elon Musk has suggested. The US aerospace firm has already been trying to use the same principle to catch the protective nosecones of rockets which are jettisoned after launch. According to Mr Musk, each nosecone costs around … Read more
SpaceX founder Elon Musk is aiming to put a million people on Mars by 2050 – in effect setting up a human colony the size of San Jose on the big dusty space rock. The billionaire entrepreneur has shortened the timescale of what was already an ambitious aim of putting one million on Mars by … Read more
Sci-fi writers have long dreamed of turning Mars into a more Earth-like planet for future colonisation. From the first photographic fly-by of Mars by the Mariner 4 spacecraft in 1965 to NASA‘s Orion project and Elon Musk‘s SpaceX venture, getting humans to the Red Planet has become one of the greatest challenges and preoccupations of … Read more
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed new detaisl about the his highly anticipated Starlink venture. The billionaire tweeted that the terminals used to connect to the train of satellites will look like ‘a thin, flat, round UFO on a stick’. Musk also shared some simple instruction on how to use the ‘user terminal’ -you just … Read more
Grimes has posted another baby bump photo. The 31-year-old took to Instagram just one day after declaring herself ‘knocked up’ to show her growing bump, in a sans-caption image. The Oblivion artist’s belly appeared to be covered in a pattern of red scratches for the striking photo. She was styled very similarly to her previous … Read more
Elon Musk’s indie pop artist girlfriend Grimes declared she is ‘knocked up’ with her first child in a social media post shared on Wednesday. The musician, 31, announced the news by posting a nude Instagram photo which showed an emerging baby bump, with a foetus Photoshopped onto her stomach. Though the initial post was only … Read more