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Watch SpaceX’s Fifth Attempt to Launch Its Falcon 9 Rocket Live, Which Will Make You Question the Very Nature of Reality [Updated]

For the fifth time in just over a week, SpaceX is trying to launch its Falcon 9 Rocket. Am I stuck in a timeloop? Is any of this real? Am I here? Are you? SpaceX attributed the first four scrubbed launches to problems with their liquid oxygen system, heavy winds, and a boat straying too…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

Watch As SpaceX Tries To Launch SES-9 For The Third Time

SpaceX’s SES-9 mission is slated to launch later today at 6:46pm from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The mission has been scrubbed twice already, so maybe the third time is the charm? https://gizmodo.com/watch-falcon-9-rocket-which-even-spacex-thinks-will-cr-1760867899 The company noted that they’re set to try another launch attempt tonight, but noted that they’re watching upper level wind speeds. To recap,…

Tech News Andrew Liptak

After Years, Tesla Finally Nabbed Tesla.com From Nikola Tesla Fan

For nearly two-and-a-half decades, an everyday Silicon Valley engineer has owned the domain name Tesla.com. That streak of internet glory is over. Elon Musk has grabbed it, replacing his car company’s clunkier TeslaMotors.com. Bloomberg reports that engineer and Nikola Tesla admirer Stu Grossman has apparently owned the domain since 1992, a long-ago claimed personal site…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Tesla Is Losing Money But Making More Cars

Despite losing money last quarter, Tesla shares are still up after their earnings report. Why? Because the company is beating estimates on how many cars it will be able to produce this year. Tesla expects to ship 80,000 to 90,00 Model S and Model X cars in 2016, beating forecasts that the company would only…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

The Tesla Model X Has a Christmas Party Trick

The Tesla Model X comes with a handful of dubiously-useful special modes, but here’s one that exists just for fun. According to Elon Musk, the sound-and-light show will actually ship on production Model Xs as an Easter Egg. If nothing else, it serves as a good(scary!) demonstration of all the things a Model X can…

Tech News Chris Mills

Tonight’s SpaceX Launch Has Been Scrubbed

Space X was supposed to launch its most powerful rocket this weekend, but has just scrubbed their launch. The reason? They want to stick the landing this time. Elon Musk took to twitter earlier today and noted that mission planners felt that they’d have a better opportunity to land the rocket this time: This comes…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Liptak

Elon Musk Is Worried That WWIII Will Stop Him Getting to Mars

Elon Musk, a billionaire Bond villain who wants to nuke Mars, revealed in a recent interview that he’s worried a third World War might mess up his plans to colonize Mars. In a profile with GQ, Musk talked details on a bunch of his pet projects: Hyperloop, Tesla, space suits, and of course, going to…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

Musk’s Plan to Save the World From Advanced AI: Develop Advanced AI

Noted killer robot-fearer Elon Musk has a plan to save humanity from the looming robopocalypse: developing advanced artificial intelligence systems. You know, the exact technologies that could lead to the robopocalypse. Let’s unpack that one a little bit. Yesterday, Tesla’s boss, along with a band of prominent tech executives including Linked in co-founder Reid Hoffman…

Artificial Intelligence Maddie Stone

Nevada Is Getting a Hyperloop Test Track

Hyperloop Technologies plans to build a hyperloop test track for in North Las Vegas—and it wants to start testing early next year. The AP talked to the California company (which takes its name from Elon Musk’s proposed invention, but isn’t associated with him) about its plans to create a testing ground for the transit technology.…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Elon Musk Is Probably Our Best Hope Yet For Moving Beyond Fossil Fuels

As the leaders of 196 countries negotiate a carbon emissions goal for the planet to prevent an environmental apocalypse, the real work will fall to the companies that will need to deliver change to consumers. And no single person is doing as much to help change our energy consumption as one Elon Musk. In a…

Tech News Alissa Walker

SpaceX Is About to Win Its First-Ever U.S. Military Mission

It looks like SpaceX is set to land its first US military contract. Elon Musk’s company sued for the right to be considered, and now they’re the last ones standing after United Launch Alliance’s Russian-made engines have become an issue. The contract at hand is a next-gen GPS satellite for the U.S. Air Force. United…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Elon Musk: Tesla May Limit Autopilot Because People Are Idiots

On an earnings yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk finally responded to “some fairly crazy” Model S Autopilot videosthat show reckless idiots pushing the feature beyond where it’s supposed to go. He isn’t pleased. According to Musk, “This is not good.” What an understatement! He suggested that by adding some constraints to the Autopilot mode Tesla…

Tech News Chelsea Scherer

Elon Musk: Apple Hires Tesla’s Rejects

Elon Musk must be pretty happy with his employees. In an interview with the German newspaper Handelsblatt, he pointed out that Apple is staffed by people that aren’t good enough to remain at Tesla. Business Insider reports that Tesla engineers simply head to Apple when they’re fired: “They have hired people we’ve fired. We always…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

SpaceX Wants Future Astronauts To Look “Badass” in Space With New Sexy Suits

Spacesuits of the future are going to do much more than just keep us alive–they’re going to make us look damn good. Because clearly, the most important thing when landing on other planets is that we look extra cool doing it. Multiple outlets are reporting that in the contract SpaceX has with Orbital Outfitters, a…

Tech News Chelsea Scherer

Elon Musk Clarifies His Plan to “Nuke Mars”

Remember a few weeks back, when Elon Musk explained how we ought to nuke Mars to warm it up? Well, the billionaire was really just speaking off the cuff, and so during a SolarCity launch event in Times Square yesterday, he decided he ought to clarify. The founder of SpaceX doesn’t want to nuke the…

Tech News Maddie Stone

SolarCity Is About to Start Manufacturing the Most Efficient Rooftop Solar Panel Ever

Normally,22.04 percent wouldn’t exactly inspire awe. What about the other 78 percent? Where is it being wasted? But for solar panels, it’s a leap forward. SolarCity, the 9-year-old solar energy company that counts Elon Musk as a co-founder and current chairman, announced this morning that it has reached a new record for solar panel efficiency.…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Elon Musk: Dieselgate Proves It’s Time to Go Electric

While the EPA is promising to toughen up emissions tests in the aftermath of the Volkswagen cheating scandal, Tesla founder Elon Musk has a slightly different take: Gas is dead and it’s time to go electric, people. While speaking to a room full of reporters yesterday, Musk was asked whether dieselgate would cause people to…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Watch Elon Musk Describe Terraforming Mars to Stephen Colbert

Elon Musk has engineered a next-generation rocket and built an electric car empire. But on the Late Show last night Musk seemed very human, nervously chuckling as Stephen Colbert lobbed questions at him. Nerves aside, Musk made an interesting guest for Colbert’s second-ever Late Show—once Colbert got the requisite super-villain joke (to which Musk did…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Engineering Students at Purdue Can Take a Class In Hyperloop Design This Fall

The Hyperloop is not real. But that won’t prevent it from being taught at institutions of higher learning. Now Purdue University is offering a Hyperloop Design course through its three engineering programs. The first class was yesterday and apparently 54 students showed up. The course is being offered at an interesting time in Hyperloop’s development.…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Stephen Colbert Will Host Elon Musk and Uber’s CEO His First Week

When Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show launches on September 8 there will be a few surprising guests on his couch: Both Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick are booked for a very tech-focused first week. But that’s not the only hint that Colbert’s show might promise to be the most nerd-friendly late night show…

Television Alissa Walker

Watch SpaceX’s Fifth Attempt to Launch Its Falcon 9 Rocket Live, Which Will Make You Question the Very Nature of Reality [Updated]

Watch As SpaceX Tries To Launch SES-9 For The Third Time

After Years, Tesla Finally Nabbed Tesla.com From Nikola Tesla Fan

Tesla Is Losing Money But Making More Cars

The Tesla Model X Has a Christmas Party Trick

Tonight’s SpaceX Launch Has Been Scrubbed

Elon Musk Is Worried That WWIII Will Stop Him Getting to Mars

Musk’s Plan to Save the World From Advanced AI: Develop Advanced AI

Nevada Is Getting a Hyperloop Test Track

Elon Musk Is Probably Our Best Hope Yet For Moving Beyond Fossil Fuels

SpaceX Is About to Win Its First-Ever U.S. Military Mission

Elon Musk: Tesla May Limit Autopilot Because People Are Idiots

Elon Musk: Apple Hires Tesla’s Rejects

SpaceX Wants Future Astronauts To Look “Badass” in Space With New Sexy Suits

Elon Musk Clarifies His Plan to “Nuke Mars”

SolarCity Is About to Start Manufacturing the Most Efficient Rooftop Solar Panel Ever

Elon Musk: Dieselgate Proves It’s Time to Go Electric

Watch Elon Musk Describe Terraforming Mars to Stephen Colbert

Engineering Students at Purdue Can Take a Class In Hyperloop Design This Fall

Stephen Colbert Will Host Elon Musk and Uber’s CEO His First Week

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