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Aug 14, 2022

Elon Musk said he and the ‘whole of SpaceX’ had to be drug tested for a year after he smoked weed on Joe Rogan’s podcast

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk, space travel

“Some people are still pretty uptight about these things,” he added.

Musk didn’t comment on how often he smokes weed, but said he’s not very skilled at it.

“I don’t even know how to smoke a joint, obviously. I mean, look at me, I have no joint-smoking skills,” he said.

Aug 14, 2022

10 Amazing Facts You Didn’t Know About Elon Musk

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, entertainment

Elon Musk’s first entrepreneurial venture was selling a video game called Blastar when he was 12 years old. Here’re a few more examples.

Aug 14, 2022

Pretoria-born billionaire Elon Musk says violence and bullying in South Africa motivated him

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Pretoria-born Elon Musk opened up about the difficulties he faced in dealing with violence and bullying while growing up in South Africa and how it helped him.

Aug 14, 2022

Elon Musk’s lawyers say Twitter is hiding the identities of key staff who calculate bot numbers, the main sticking point in the $44 billion deal, reports say

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, Elon Musk, finance, law, robotics/AI

The number of bots and spam accounts on the platform has been a sticking point for Musk throughout the deal. After months of back and forth, Musk’s issues with spam accounts eventually led him to publicly pull out of the $44 billion deal.

Last month, Musk accused Twitter of withholding information about the number of bots on the platform, later citing it as the reason for withdrawing his bid.

Musk’s lawyers claimed in a termination letter that his analysis indicated the percentage of false accounts on Twitter was “wildly higher than 5%” — the number Twitter disclosed in its financial reports.

Aug 14, 2022

Hey, Elon Musk: lose something? A piece of a SpaceX spacecraft landed in a remote field in Australia

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

No person or animal was injured by the falling objects, but it’s scary to think about how these pieces could have fallen in more populated areas. Yet, astrophysicist Dr. Brad Tucker says incidents…

Aug 11, 2022

The worst case Starlink scenario? We could be ‘right on the edge’ of Kessler syndrome

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites

And cleaning up the resulting space debris would be like ‘collecting bullets’.

SpaceX’s Starlink mega-constellation is growing at rocket speed.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently announced that the private space company expects over 4,200 Starlink satellites in operation within 18 months\.

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Aug 10, 2022

Musk Sells $6.9 Billion of Tesla to Avoid Twitter Fire Sale

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Aug 7, 2022

Bad news for Tesla fans: Cybertruck will be even more expensive than $40,000

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Aug 7, 2022

Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO to a public debate about bot data

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Aug 6, 2022

SpaceX raises another $250 million in equity, lifts total to $2 billion in 2022

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX raised $250 million in an equity round last month, the company disclosed in a securities filing on Friday. It has now raised $2 billion in 2022.

The filing doesn’t specify the sources of the funds, but noted they came from five investors.

SpaceX did not disclose a change in its valuation. The company’s value has soared in the last few years, with SpaceX raising billions to fund work on two capital-intensive projects — the next generation rocket Starship and its global satellite internet network Starlink. Its value hit $127 billion during its previous equity round in May, CNBC reported. That raise brought in $1.725 billion.

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