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Jun 4, 2018

Tesla has ‘about 11,000’ energy storage projects underway in Puerto Rico, says Elon Musk

Posted by in categories: climatology, Elon Musk, sustainability

Tesla is apparently significantly ramping up its effort to help rebuild the power grid in Puerto Rico after it was destroyed by hurricanes last year.

After having completed hundreds of energy storage project on the islands in the last few months, Tesla CEO Elon Musk now says that they have ‘about 11,000’ energy storage projects underway in Puerto Rico, which means something big is in the work.

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Jun 1, 2018

SpaceX: Elon Musk Responds to Boeing CEO’s Plan to Get to Mars First

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has responded to Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg’s comments on whether his company, working in collaboration with NASA, could reach Mars first. The pair have ratcheted up the competition, with plans to test the BFR and Space Launch System next year.

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May 30, 2018

Elon Musk Called Nanotechnology BS

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, engineering, nanotechnology, solar power, sustainability

In case you missed it, Elon Musk called BS on the field of nanotechnology last week. The ensuing Twitter spat was admittedly rather small on the grand scale of things.

But it did throw up an important question: just what is nanotech, and where does the BS end and the science begin?

I have a sneaky suspicion that Musk was trolling with his initial nano-comment. After all, much of the tech in his cars, solar cells and rockets relies on nanoscale science and engineering.

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May 28, 2018

IBM’s head of Watson likes Elon Musk but ‘hates’ A.I. scaremongering

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, existential risks, robotics/AI

IBM’s David Kenny suggested that artificial intelligence doomsday warnings from the likes of Tesla CEO Elon Musk were overblown.

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May 26, 2018

SpaceX’s prototype internet satellites are good enough for gaming, Elon Musk says

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites

In a tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says two prototype broadband data-transmitting satellites are working well enough to be used for playing video games.

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May 25, 2018

A tiny start-up could beat Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg at linking brains and computers

Posted by in categories: computing, Elon Musk, neuroscience

Tesla’s Elon Musk and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg each aim to create the world’s first brain-computer interface, but a start-up called Nuro could beat them to the punch with a simpler piece of software.

Business Insider UPDATED : Friday, 25 May 2018, 3:02PM

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May 24, 2018

Self-Driving Cars Have a Big Problem: Americans Don’t Trust Them

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Self-driving cars have plenty of benefits — but the American public still doesn’t trust them. A report from the American Automobile Association released Tuesday shows that 73 percent of drivers would be too afraid to ride in a self-driving car, a marked jump from the 63 percent reported late last year, with millennial distrust jumping from 49 percent to 64 percent over the same period.

The results of the survey come despite autonomous-vehicle makers reporting strong signs of progress. Waymo, which started life as Google’s self-driving car project, announced in March that it’s accumulated over 5 billion miles in virtual driving and 5 million miles in real-world driving, after opening its autonomous minivan service to the public last year. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who said in February he’s “pretty excited about how much progress we’re making on the neural net front,” has predicted autonomous driving for existing vehicles could surface in a matter of months. Companies like Aurora are predicting their systems could hit the markets in 2021.

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May 23, 2018

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell sees satellites as bigger market than rockets

Posted by in categories: business, Elon Musk, satellites

SpaceX is taking a commanding role in the rocket business — but Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s president and chief operating officer, expects the satellite business to be more lucrative.

Shotwell sized up SpaceX’s road ahead in a CNBC interview that aired today in connection with the cable network’s latest Disruptor 50 list. For the second year in a row, the space venture founded by billionaire Elon Musk leads the list.

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May 16, 2018

Elon Musk Details Incredible Hyperloop Plan to Connect With SpaceX Launches

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, transportation

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk outlined plans to use The Boring Company’s hyperloop to link city centers to spaceports, which in turn will be used to transport humans across the planet in under an hour using the SpaceX BFR as an “Earth-to-Earth” transit system.

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May 14, 2018

Elon Musk says LA-area test tunnel almost complete (Update)

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, transportation

Billionaire Elon Musk says he’s almost completed a tunnel under a Los Angeles suburb to test a novel transportation system that would scoot commuters underground on electric sleds called skates.

Musk tweeted Thursday that, pending regulatory approvals, free rides will be offered to the public in a few months. He also posted an Instagram video of the interior of the tunnel.

Last year, the Hawthorne City Council approved an approximately 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) test tunnel from Musk’s SpaceX rocket plant to a point east of Los Angeles International Airport.

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