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SpaceX Starship Plans To Make Its First High Altitude Test Flight Next Week

SpaceX fired the engines on its Starship SN8 prototype on Tuesday evening, with billionaire CEO Elon Musk tweeting that the resultant “good static fire” produced during the final test had likely paved the way for the vehicle to take its first test flight sometime next week. The proposed 5km (50,000 feet) test flight would exceed…

Space & Spaceflight Brianna Provenzano

Bill Gates Sucks at Being the Most Billionaire

Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder who later pivoted to a career in being the richest man in the world, is losing his touch. If any of us were as bad at our jobs as Gates, we’d be on the bread lines faster than you can say, “guillotines are the future.” And this week, the man’s…

Tech News Rhett Jones

California Says Tesla Workers Are Now ‘Essential,’ and Can Ignore Stay-at-Home Order

Workers that make Teslas during the coronavirus pandemic are now apparently considered “essential” in the state of California, which has reported an average of 10,981 new covid-19 infections per day in the last week. This means that Tesla’s workers will not be affected by the state’s new limited stay-at-home order, which goes into effect Saturday.…

Tech News Jody Serrano

Tesla Will Be Added to the S&P 500 on December 21

After months of speculation, car manufacturing startup Tesla will become the newest addition to the S&P Dow Jones Indices on December 21, the index announced on Monday. The value of Tesla’s shares jumped more than 10% in the after-hours session on Monday in response to the news . The brainchild of billionaire Space Karen Elon…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Elon Musk Might Have the Disease He Said Would Be Gone By April

Elon Musk has been tested for the novel coronavirus and received conflicting results, according to the tech mogul’s Twitter account. The 49-year-old founder of SpaceX wrote that he was given a rapid covid-19 antigen test four times, with two tests coming back positive and two coming back negative on the same day. Musk, who wrote…

Health Matt Novak

Report: Elon Musk Is Kind of a Dick

It’s not exactly a secret that Elon Musk, billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, self-proclaimed Thai pedophilia expert, and designer of death race trucks, doesn’t give a flying fuck what other people think about his actions. To wit: Musk has endorsed a sex cult’s system for ranking news organizations based on “critical thinking,” regularly railed…

Tech News Tom McKay

Tesla Hikes Up the Price of ‘Full Self-Driving’ Option to $10,000

Tesla bumped up the price of its “full self-driving” software option to $10,000 on Friday, making good on CEO Elon Musk’s promise last week to implement a roughly $2,000 price hike in the U.S. It follows the launch of a limited beta version of the software, which lets a select number of U.S. customers use…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Tesla Recalls Almost 30,000 Cars From China, Citing Suspension Issues

Tesla’s issues with faulty production and inconsistent quality extend outside the U.S. market: As first reported by Bloomberg, the automaker is set to recall close to 30,000 of its imported Model S and Model X cars from China, citing problems surrounding the vehicle’s suspension systems. Per a statement from China’s State Administration for Market Regulation—a…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

Regretting That Tesla You Just Bought? Well, You Might Be Stuck With It Now

For years, Tesla, as well as its eccentric founder and CEO Elon Musk, proudly proclaimed to recent customers that if they were unhappy with the vehicle they had just purchased, they could simply return it. The catch? Hardly anything. It just had to be done within seven calendar days. That was then. Now, as reported…

Tech News Jody Serrano

Russian Design for a Reusable Rocket Sure Looks Familiar

Roscosmos is moving ahead with plans to build Russia’s first reusable rocket. Glancing at the design, it appears the Russian space agency doesn’t feel the need to reinvent the wheel, given the vehicle’s uncanny resemblance to the SpaceX Falcon 9. Roscosmos signed a contract with the Progress Rocket Space Centre to sketch out a preliminary…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Tesla Scores a Win In Lawsuit Against Martin Tripp

After two years and a ton of Twitter drama, it looks like Tesla’s suit against ex-technician, Martin Tripp, has hit a major development. Nevada District courts ruled late Thursday that Tripp—who was fired from the automaker in late 2018 on claims that he’d plundered trade secrets—had also fallen afoul of the state’s cybersecurity laws as…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

Elon Musk Reveals His Cyborg Pigs

On Friday, Elon Musk demonstrated the tech behind his brain-computer interface startup, Neuralink, in a livestreamed demo that involved significantly more pigs than anyone expected. And they didn’t seem particularly interested in whatever the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had to show. When one piggy—Gertrude—was finally corralled into view after a few minutes hiding behind a…

Health Alyse Stanley

A Tesla Employee Foiled an Alleged Ransomware Scheme

CEO Elon Musk called a thwarted cyberattack against Tesla “serious” on Thursday after a Russian national reportedly tried to recruit and bribe an employee to install ransomware on the company’s network at its Gigafactory in northern Nevada. The Justice Department released a complaint earlier this week about an attempted malware attack that doesn’t name the…

Crime Alyse Stanley

What to Know About Neuralink, Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Interface Project

Elon Musk is set to make an announcement about Neuralink, a company designing brain-computer interface technology, on Friday, Aug. 28. It sounds like science fiction, but research in this area has progressed rapidly in recent years, though we’re still far from being able to send emails with our minds. Unlike Musk’s other famous ventures, SpaceX…

Health George Dvorsky

SpaceX Starship Prototype Completes Its First ‘Hop’

SpaceX’s plans to build a reusable rocket capable of landing on the Moon and Mars took a major leap forward on Tuesday, following the first successful test of the Starship system. Starship made its inaugural test flight shortly before 8:00 pm ET on Tuesday August 4 at the SpaceX Boca Chica facility in Texas, reports…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

China Launches Country’s First Independent Mission to Mars, Complete With Rover

China successfully launched its first independent mission to Mars, dubbed Tianwen-1, from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan Province on Thursday. China’s “Long March-5” rocket is carrying an orbiter, lander, and even an uncrewed rover that will explore the surface of Mars in 2021, provided everything goes according to plan. China first attempted a…

Space & Spaceflight Matt Novak

Jeff Bezos Makes $13 Billion in One Day During Pandemic

The U.S. is hanging on the precipice of economic collapse, with around 25 million Americans slated to be kicked off extended coronavirus pandemic uninsurance later this week and the White House mulling tax cuts and screw you as a replacement. But every cloud has an obscene silver lining: world’s richest man and ghoulish Amazon overlord…

Commerce Tom McKay

Apple, Musk, Gates, Bezos, and Everyone You’ve Ever Heard of Hacked

Something normal happened on Twitter earlier this afternoon. Someone claiming to be Elon Musk started tweeting an obvious scam to entice his loyal bootlickers to send bitcoin to a random cryptocurrency wallet. This happens all the time, but the strange thing about today was that the tweets were coming from Musk’s verified account. And nearly…

Privacy & Security Rhett Jones

After Telling Staff That Working During Pandemic Was Voluntary, Tesla Reportedly Sent Termination Notices

Some Tesla workers who were originally informed they were not “obligated” to show up for shifts at the company’s Fremont, California production facility as it reopened during the coronavirus pandemic have in fact received termination notices, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Tesla employees Carlos Gabriel and Jessica Naro told the Post that they had…

Health Tom McKay

Tesla Claiming It’s Sustainable Is Bullshit

Tesla released its 2019 Impact Report touting its sustainability this week. In it, the electric car and renewable energy firm touted a bevy of accomplishments. They include claims that its car batteries degrade 15% less quickly than others, that it cut its water use in manufacturing by 45% from 2018 to 2019, that it makes…

Earther Dharna Noor

SpaceX Starship Plans To Make Its First High Altitude Test Flight Next Week

Bill Gates Sucks at Being the Most Billionaire

California Says Tesla Workers Are Now ‘Essential,’ and Can Ignore Stay-at-Home Order

Tesla Will Be Added to the S&P 500 on December 21

Elon Musk Might Have the Disease He Said Would Be Gone By April

Report: Elon Musk Is Kind of a Dick

Tesla Hikes Up the Price of ‘Full Self-Driving’ Option to $10,000

Tesla Recalls Almost 30,000 Cars From China, Citing Suspension Issues

Regretting That Tesla You Just Bought? Well, You Might Be Stuck With It Now

Russian Design for a Reusable Rocket Sure Looks Familiar

Tesla Scores a Win In Lawsuit Against Martin Tripp

Elon Musk Reveals His Cyborg Pigs

A Tesla Employee Foiled an Alleged Ransomware Scheme

What to Know About Neuralink, Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Interface Project

SpaceX Starship Prototype Completes Its First ‘Hop’

China Launches Country’s First Independent Mission to Mars, Complete With Rover

Jeff Bezos Makes $13 Billion in One Day During Pandemic

Apple, Musk, Gates, Bezos, and Everyone You’ve Ever Heard of Hacked

After Telling Staff That Working During Pandemic Was Voluntary, Tesla Reportedly Sent Termination Notices

Tesla Claiming It’s Sustainable Is Bullshit

Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway’s Mystery’s Sci-Fi Film Has Its First Trailer

Scientists Just Found the Salt Limit That Pushes Your Heart to the Breaking Point

White House Social Media Just Had Its Covfefe Moment

Roborock F25 Ultra Steam Wet Dry Vacuum Is Now at Its Lowest Price, but Only During the Spring Sale Window

This $450 Semi-Dumb Phone Is Barely Even a Phone

Startup Successfully Ignites World’s First Fusion Rocket

Shokz OpenDots One Earbuds Hit Their Lowest Price Yet Across All Color Options, Including the New Ones

INIU Portable Power Bank Is Small in Size and Smaller in Price for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale (45W, 10,000mAh)

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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