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Nov 15, 2022
Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 Tesla employees into his Twitter takeover
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: business, Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability
But do they really have the necessary skillset?The new CEO of Twitter, Elon Musk, has authorized 50 employees from his other companies, such as Tesla, SpaceX, and the Boring Company, to help him handle matters at the social media company, according to a report by CNBC.
Musk has billed himself as a free speech absolutist, but he has to balance those wishes with laws and business realities. He said in an open letter to advertisers last week as he was taking over the company: “Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences.”
It is not immediately clear how Tesla employees are expected to split their schedules between the automaker and Twitter.
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Nov 15, 2022
SpaceX Will Take the Next NASA Astronauts to the Moon
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: space travel
SpaceX and NASA are gearing up towards the first crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17 in 1972.
NASA deputy associate administrator Mark Kirasich spoke highly of SpaceX’s progress on Starship in a subcommittee meeting of NASA’s Advisory Council on Monday, October 31, as per an Ars Technica report.
In 2021, NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build a modified version of Starship as a lunar lander for its upcoming Artemis III mission.
Nov 15, 2022
Aston University researchers ‘feed’ leftover coffee grounds to microalgae to produce low emission biodiesel
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: biotech/medical
It could decrease reliance on palm oil to produce biofuel. Have you ever guessed that a leftover coffee could turn into biodiesel? Here’s a remarkable development for bioscience.
- High quality biodiesel produced from microalgae ‘fed’ on leftover coffee grounds
- Breakthrough in the microalgal cultivation system
- Could decrease reliance on palm oil to produce biofuel.