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Johnny Depp Visits Alcatraz And Meanwhile His Ex Amber Heard Hangs With Elon Musk

Inside the lighthouse on #Alcatraz, the city of #SanFrancisco in the background. It was so windy up here that you could feel the lighthouse shifting and swaying. Yikes!! But what a view! _______________________________________________________ #tourism

Elon Musk To Consumer Reports: We'll Keep Autopilot Thank You Very Much

Consumer Reports today called on Tesla to temporarily suspend its autopilot feature in all of its cars following the May death of an Ohio man who had the feature engaged at the time

Driver In Fatal Tesla Crash Posted YouTube Videos Of Himself Testing Auto-Pilot Feature

Joshua Brown, the 40-year-old Ohio man who was killed in May while his Tesla Model S was in auto-pilot mode, was, like many Tesla owners, a technology enthusiast who enjoyed testing the limits

Man Killed In Self-Driving Tesla Crash

News today of a tragic first for electric-car company Tesla, as KRON4 reports that a driver died in a crash that occurred while his vehicle was in autonomous mode. The man was reportedly

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That Time <em>Silicon Valley</em>'s TJ Miller Met (And Embarrassed) Elon Musk

TJ Miller, who plays the buffoonish, churlish Erlich Bachmann on HBO's Silicon Valley, has had choice words for the tech industry in the past. "You don't have a sense of humor about yourselves,

Elon Musk Wants To Send You To Mars By 2024

Elon Musk went full-on epistemological at Recode's Codecon conference, suggesting that we might be in a videogame kind of simulation! Wow! This, you might know, is a theory originally posited by Descartes, then

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Video: New Werner Herzog Doc About Tech Features Elon Musk, Other Luminaries

Watch this on The Scene. Wired brings us the trailer for a new documentary from Magnolia Pictures, directed by Werner Herzog, titled Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World. Herzog scopes out

Video Shows Tesla Model S Driver Apparently Asleep At The Wheel, On Autopilot, In Traffic

Though it could be faked, and no one has tracked down the driver to confirm, a video surfaced on the site Electrek (via Reddit, of course) appearing to show a man asleep behind

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<i>Silicon Valley</i> Star T.J. Miller Calls Out Humorless Silicon Valley Tech A**Holes

HBO's Silicon Valley premiered its third season on Monday, and accompanying it was a long interview with one of the show's stars. T.J. Miller plays the blustery Erlich Bachmann on the show

Elon Musk Hints At Project For Autonomous Mass Transit Option

“I don’t want to talk too much about it," billionaire CEO Elon Musk said secretively at a transportation conference in Norway yesterday according to Bloomberg. "I have to be careful what I

Tesla Model 3: Buyers Clamor To Reserve Cars That Won't Be Made Until 2017

When Tesla CEO Elon Musk takes the stage in Los Angeles tonight to introduce a new, more affordable version of his electric car — an unveiling that's being billed as the company's pivotal event,

Radio Flyer Makes Tiny Teslas For CEOs-In-Training

Disruptive children will soon have something on which to spend that Bitcoin they've been saving from the Tooth Fairy. For young founders and tech execs to be, Radio Flyer has teamed up with

Video: A Look Inside Tesla's Secretive Fremont Factory

Tesla Motors' Fremont factory is huge. At 5.3 million square feet, you need a golf cart to get around. The manufacturing space was purchased by the electric car company in 2010 from

Fat Cat Fight: Elon Musk Cancels 'Rude' Venture Capitalist's Tesla Order

All Stewart Alsop wanted was a Tesla Model X, and is that so much for a venture capitalist to ask? No, he didn't want to wait for it, and now he'd better not

Mark Zuckerberg Resolves To Spend Free Time Building AI Butler To Watch Over His Child

Unbounded by petty day-to-day concerns like making rent or paying off student loans, America's super rich are free to "think big." That appeared exactly Mark Zuckerberg's intention when he announced his 2016 New

SpaceX Vertically Lands Its Falcon 9 Rocket, Geeks Everywhere Rejoice

SpaceX finally did it. The pioneering company in contract with NASA to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station managed yesterday to vertically land its Falcon 9 rocket on a landing pad in

Tesla Releases Self-Driving Car Software, Still Requires Hands On The Wheel

Someday soon, Tesla's autonomous cars will absolutely change the face of transportation. They've done it before: Elon Musk's automaker has already revolutionized technologies for, and not least perceptions of, the electric vehicle. But

New Tesla Model X Equipped With Bioweapon Filtration For The Apocalypse

Want to race through a decimated cityscape, Mad Max-style, in your shiny Tesla without fear of being infected by the weaponized virus that has killed off all your friends? You will be able

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Elon Musk Wants To Nuke Mars

"The fast way is to drop thermonuclear weapons over the poles," Elon Musk told James Bond Stephen Colbert in an appearance on The Late Show last night. That's the quickest way to make

First Week Of Colbert's 'Late Show' Will Feature Elon Musk And Travis Kalanick

by Jack Morse Not content to disrupt the way we move from Point A to Point B, tech CEO's Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick will be disrupting our late-night comedy in the coming

SpaceX Rocket Blows Up After Liftoff

Elon Musk's SpaceX experienced another spectacular setback as another rocket exploded during liftoff. The unmanned Falcon 9 rocket took off Sunday morning Cape Canaveral, Florida at 10:21 a.m., local time. At

Elon Musk's Ultra-High-Speed 'Hyperloop' Is Getting Built As Test Concept This Year

Tesla founder and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will see his fantastical dream of a mode of transportation that floats on air in a steel tube and travels just under the speed of sound

Musk Calls 'BS' On 'Quotes' In New Biography

"My mentality is that of a samurai," Elon Musk told a potential investor according to a new biography, adding, "I would rather commit seppuku than fail.” But some things are too good to

New Biography Says Elon Musk Thinks Male Employees Should Miss Their Children's Births

Elon Musk is so good because he's so crazy. But that also means he's crazy. Let's leave the potential for sarcasm open here — the man's Twitter avatar is a Dr. Evil / Dr. No

Elon Musk Gleefully Releases SpaceX Explosion Video

Elon Musk's pet project SpaceX just released Vine video of its Falcon 9 booster crashing in an attempt to land on a barge last week. This followed a more successful launch to the