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Apr 10, 2022

Elon Musk has a ‘very human side to him,’ according to a NASA astronaut who completed a SpaceX mission

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NASA astronaut Doug Hurley reminisced on what it was like working with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk before he flew on a historic flight to space and back in 2020.

In an interview with Fox News, Hurley spoke about his impressions of Musk, the billionaire space race, and a new Netflix documentary, “Return to Space” which follows Hurley’s journey and that of fellow astronaut Bob Behnken as they embarked on the first human SpaceX mission to the International Space Station.

In May 2020, Musk and SpaceX made history after the company successfully launched two astronauts into space aboard a Crew Dragon spaceship. Shortly after, the astronauts’ ship docked at the International Space Station.

Apr 10, 2022

Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of Twitter, paying $3 billion for his shares

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The prolific Twitter user knows from experience what might be the best for the social media platform.


Elon Musk bought 73,486,938 Twitter shares on March 14, amounting to a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing reveals.

The stake makes Elon Musk one of Twitter’s largest shareholders as he now owns more than four times Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s holding of 2.25 percent, according to the BBC.

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Apr 10, 2022

Elon Musk says Tesla may have to get into the lithium business because costs are so ‘insane’

Posted by in categories: business, Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability

Elon Musk tweeted Tesla may get into the lithium mining and refining business directly and at scale because the cost of the metal, a key component in manufacturing batteries, has gotten so high.

“Price of lithium has gone to insane levels,” Musk tweeted. “There is no shortage of the element itself, as lithium is almost everywhere on Earth, but pace of extraction/refinement is slow.”

The Tesla and SpaceX tech boss was responding to a tweet showing the average price of lithium per tonne in the last two decades, which showed a massive increase in prices since 2021. According to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, the cost of the metal has gone up more than 480% in the last year.

Apr 9, 2022

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Concept to Become a Reality with Alberta’s TransPod

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, transportation

TransPod has received funding for a high-speed link between Alberta’s two largest cities. Travel between destinations will take 20 minutes.

Apr 9, 2022

Richard Branson could be the first billionaire to fly on Elon Musk’s Starship

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

It would signify new levels of space baron cooperation. It’s no secret that Richard Branson is a big fan of SpaceX.


It’s no secret that Richard Branson is a big fan of SpaceX.

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Apr 7, 2022

OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 produces fantastical images of most anything you can imagine

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

In January, 2021, the OpenAI consortium — founded by Elon Musk and financially backed by Microsoft — unveiled its most ambitious project to date, the DALL-E machine learning system. This ingenious multimodal AI was capable of generating images (albeit, rather cartoonish ones) based on the attributes described by a user — think “a cat made of sushi” or “an x-ray of a Capybara sitting in a forest.” On Wednesday, the consortium unveiled DALL-E’s next iteration which boasts higher resolution and lower latency than the original.

The first DALL-E (a portmanteau of “Dali,” as in the artist, and “WALL-E,” as in the animated Disney character) could generate images as well as combine multiple images into a collage, provide varying angles of perspective, and even infer elements of an image — such as shadowing effects — from the written description.

“Unlike a 3D rendering engine, whose inputs must be specified unambiguously and in complete detail, DALL·E is often able to ‘fill in the blanks’ when the caption implies that the image must contain a certain detail that is not explicitly stated,” the OpenAI team wrote in 2021.

Apr 7, 2022

Elon Musk FINALLY Reveals Artificial Gravity Starship 2022!

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

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StarshipBocaChica: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBfh… Please check out OrbitalAssemblyCooperations for their amazing Artificial Gravity concept. https://youtube.com/watch?v=M-XLPrw-lSA For the first time in the history of humanity, we stand a good chance of walking on the surface of Mars! And this is thanks to the dogged ambition of Elon Musk. The billionaire is building a mighty spacecraft, the Starship, that will take volunteers across the vast distance between Earth and Mars! However, since the trip will take months in deep space, Musk’s company, SpaceX, has to find a way to protect the travelers from the effect of microgravity during the duration of the journey! This is why SpaceX has come up with an artificial gravity Starship! What is this spacecraft, and how does it work? Join us as we explore SpaceX’s insane artificial gravity Starship.

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Apr 6, 2022

Twitter majority shareholder Elon Musk asks followers if they want an edit button

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At the time of writing, 73.6% of the 2,407,025 participants have voted yes (or yse) for an edit button.

Apr 5, 2022

Twitter to appoint Elon Musk to board of directors

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BREAKING: Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set to be appointed to Twitter’s board of directors after he revealed he held a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, which is the largest of any outside shareholder.


Twitter will appoint Tesla CEO Elon Musk to its board of directors, the company announced Tuesday.

As long as Musk is serving on the board, and for 90 days after, he will not be able to own more than 14.9 percent of Twitter’s stock, Twitter said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Musk’s term on the board will expire at the social media company’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders.

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Apr 4, 2022

Elon Musk buys 9.2% stake in Twitter, becomes the largest shareholder

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Musk’s shareholding is more than four times the 2.25% stake held by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.

According to a 13G filing published today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk now owns 9.2 percent of Twitter, Bloomberg News reports. Musk purchased the stock on March 14th, according to the filing. Musk has long been a high-profile Twitter user, and he recently questioned his over 80 million followers on the platform’s commitment to free speech. Twitter’s stock price rose more than 25% in pre-market trading as a result of the announcement.

According to CNBC, Musk’s Twitter stocks were worth $2.89 billion based on Friday’s closing price. Although Musk’s shares are categorized as a passive investment, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told CNBC that the purchase “could lead to some sort of buyout.”