Business & Tech Report: Elon Musk’s Alleged Drug Use Creating Problems for Tesla, SpaceX Board Members After a Wall Street Journal report this weekend said Elon Musk has been using cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, ketamine, and magic mushrooms, Musk issued non-denials, but top executives of his companies remain worried about the fallout.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Admits to Preventing Ukrainian Drone Strike on Crimea These are extraordinary times when a billionaire capitalist is able to singlehandedly intervene in an international conflict on his own whims. But that appears to be at least partly what happened in an incident last year that's described in a new book about Elon Musk.
Business & Tech SpaceX Employees Say Elon Musk's Twitter Persona Is an 'Embarrassment' as Musk Addresses Twitter Employees The same day that Elon Musk was addressing the employees of Twitter — which could become the fifth company Musk currently lords over if a deal to buy it goes through — employees at SpaceX posted an open letter urging the rest of SpaceX's leadership to acknowledge and account for Musk's behavior.
Business & Tech About 40 of Elon Musk’s New SpaceX Satellites Destroyed by Solar Storm A few dozen SpaceX satellites that launched last Thursday have already bit the dust in a solar storm, but thankfully, they’ll be reduced to dust upon reentering the atmosphere.
SF News Elon Musk Likely Has COVID-19 as SpaceX Launch Gets Delayed Elon Musk, who has spent a good part of this year questioning the rationale behind lockdowns and the severity of COVID-19 on Twitter, may be about to find out for himself what the disease does to a person.
SF News 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
Arts & Entertainment 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News Bay Area Company Is Literally Shooting For The Moon Just like Elon Musk, a Mountain View-based tech company is looking to take you to space, everybody. CBS 5 reports that Moon Express has plans to send a ship to the extraterrestrial body
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News Photo: SpaceX Dragon Capsule Floating Off The Pacific After spending a week in orbit, the SpaceX Dragon returned to Earth and was found floating in the Pacific near California. "Reentry scorch marks visible on the heat shield," notes SpaceX CEO Elon