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Elon Musk Joins Chorus Of Anti-Lockdown Folk, Calls Sheltering Orders 'Fascist'

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is showing his libertarian streak and jumping on the "Liberate" train, saying that pandemic lockdown orders are akin to "forcibly imprisoning people in their homes."

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Elon Musk Calls Facebook ‘Lame,’ Encourages His Twitter Followers to Delete It

Little rocket man Elon Musk set his targets on Facebook over the weekend, though the ‘Friendship Ended With’ animosity on this one goes back years.

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Guy Implants Tesla Key In His Hand, Possibly Hastens Cyborg Revolution

Tesla fanboys worldwide are surely wetting themselves with fascination as a Utah man has implanted his Tesla key into his hand, obvious medical and surveillance concerns be damned.

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Elon Musk Tweet About Tesla Workers Unionizing Deemed Illegal By Judge

Elon Musk and his electric car company were in the wrong when they fired a worker involved with labor organizing at Tesla's Fremont plant, and Musk broke the law with a tweet about the effort, according to an administrative law judge in California.

BART Has Twitter Spat With Elon Musk About Whether Trains Or Cars Should Be In Tunnels

This weird Twitter thread began Friday in which Tesla CEO and unrepentant over-tweeter Elon Musk started arguing about whether trains or cars belong in tunnels.

Tesla Factory Dogged By Allegations Of Racist Attacks By Workers That Went Unpunished

Three more men have come forward alleging that they were the victims of racist verbal attacks and harassment on the factory floor of Tesla's Fremont plant, and they've filed a lawsuit in Alameda

Video: Elon Musk Has Actually Already Built A Car Elevator For His Insane Tunneling Project

It's unwise to laugh these days when a billionaire entrepreneur seems to be joking about a new venture he dreamed up while sitting in traffic. Tesla CEO Elon Musk's seemingly jokingly (we thought)

The 'Affordable' Tesla Model 3 To Start Rolling Off The Lines Friday

Just as the Ford Model T completely revolutionized American travel back in the early 1900s, the new, yet-unreleased Tesla Model 3 is also anticipated to revolutionize modern society (at least among people who

Elon Musk Snubs Trump, Quits Advisory Council Over Climate Deal Exit

President Trump’s Thursday withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord has elicited various denouncements and superlatives from left-wing heroes and elected officials, with reactions like “an international disgrace” (Sen. Bernie Sanders), “an insane

Elon Musk Proposes New Underground Superhighways in Completely Plausible TED Talk

Last week brought us the TED2017 conference, the annual future-looking soapbox for white male tech founders born into wealth (they prefer the term ‘serial entrepreneurs’) to propose solutions no one ever asked for

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Elon Musk Still Dating Amber Heard, Takes Her To Al Gore Movie Screening

Back in July there were reports of Amber Heard, fresh from her high-profile divorce from Johnny Depp, being seen bopping in and out of hotel rooms at the Delano in Miami with Tesla

Tesla Denies Female Engineer's Discrimination Claims, Discourages Unionization With Promises Of Froyo And Rollercoasters

Tesla engineer AJ Vandermeyden says she's paid a lower salary than her male counterparts for her work at the luxury electric car company where she claims she's subjected to workplace harassment in an

SpaceX Is Sending Two Rich People On A Trip Around The Moon Next Year

In addition to plans for an astronaut-manned mission to the International Space Station in 2018, SpaceX founder Elon Musk revealed Monday that the company has already taken a deposit from two individuals who

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Instagram Account For Tesla Factory Parking Lot Shows Tesla Workers Probably Shouldn't Drive

A photo posted by Tesla Parking Lot (@teslaparkinglot) on Nov 8, 2016 at 9:03am PST Tesla workers at the electric car company's Fremont factory clearly know how to make a car, but

Day Around The Bay: Elon Musk's Latest And Greatest Idea Is A Joke

Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. According to tax documents, the non-profit Burning Man Project

Elon Musk And Travis Kalanick Just Joined Trump's Advisory Team

It looks like Facebook board member Peter Thiel will now have some company in his late-night cram sessions with President-elect Donald Trump. The Washington Post reports that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Tesla

Alleged Elon Musk Impersonator Wants Tesla Lawsuit Dismissed

A man who allegedly impersonated Elon Musk says a Tesla lawsuit against him should be dismissed because the impersonation was just too "goofy" to be taken seriously. The Chronicle reports that Todd Katz,

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Elon Musk Has Stopped Discussing Theories Of An AI-Simulated Universe While In Hot Tubs

Here's a little break from the election and the apotheosis of the Chicago Cubs: Vox made this video summarizing Elon Musk's (and others') theory that we are, all of us, our doughnuts, delusions,

All Teslas Will Be Autonomous-Ready From Here On Out, And They're Banned From Uber And Lyft

Starting today, all Tesla vehicles produced at the company's Fremont, California factory will have the capacity for fully autonomous driving, though they won't exercise those capabilities until the company makes updates "over the

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Video: How Elon Musk And SpaceX Plan To Get A Rocket To Mars In 80 Days Or Less

As noted last week, Tesla CEO and Space X mastermind Elon Musk is gunning hard for getting human beings to colonize Mars faster than NASA's timeline would have us there. And today he

Elon Musk To Talk More About Sending People To Mars Next Week

Future Martian leader Elon Musk is set to give a talk next week at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico in which he'll apparently be clarifying his plans for launching manned missions

Tesla Announces Shift In Autopilot Feature, Elon Musk Insists It Now Could Have Prevented Fatal Crash

Electric-car maker Tesla yesterday announced big changes to the way its cars see the world while in autopilot mode, and company CEO Elon Musk went so far as to say going forward the

SpaceX Rocket Carrying Facebook's First Satellite Explodes On Launchpad

For anyone who wondered why launch prep takes weeks & why no one is allowed near, this is why #Falcon9 #SpaceX pic.twitter.com/ukCPmAhOhD— Hunter Blaeser (@MinnesotaLoving) September 1, 2016 A SpaceX

Dubai, Not West Coast, May Get First Working Hyperloop

Techno-fetishists around the world rejoiced in 2013 when Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk published a white paper on the idea of a super-fast form of transportation between Los Angeles and San Francisco