60 posts tagged ‘elon musk’
Sorry Elon: Chinese Company Overtakes Tesla as Most Popular Electric Carmaker
Gizmodo,
2023 was a bad year for Elon Musk. Even before his antisemitic tirade, the billionaire’s mounting failures at X/Twitter took Musk from media darling to a near-laughing stock. His bid to take SpaceX pubic is faltering after its satellite internet business Starlink brought in just $1.4 billion of the $12 billion Musk… Read more...
Iconic SpaceX Booster Falls and Breaks in the Ocean
A Falcon 9 first-stage booster broke apart after completing its 19th mission, tipping over on the floating droneship in the Atlantic Ocean due to high winds. Read more...
Magical thinking: revenue isn't down because X didn't exist last year
Boing Boing,
Last year, it was Twitter; now it sucks even more! It seems that Xitter CEO Linda Yaccarino's magic is rubbing off on her underlings, one of whom pretty much repeats her magical thinking about the business word for word. Remember when, among many other embarrassing moments, CEO Yaccarino used one of the worst branding exercises in history to deny having worked at Twitter? — Read the rest
Elon Musk's AI is too woke for its target audience
If you've had the misfortune of being on X (formerly Twitter) recently, I'm so sorry. But you've also probably seen lots of posts about Grok, Elon Musk's in-house AI chatbot currently only accessible to those forking over money to him on a monthly basis. — Read the rest
How to Watch SpaceX Launch Space Force’s Spaceplane for the First Time
For the first time, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy will attempt to deliver the Pentagon’s spaceplane to low Earth orbit. The mission marks the seventh for the mysterious spacecraft, aiming to expand the Space Force’s knowledge of the space environment and test new technologies. Read more...
Alex Jones Is Back on X, Thanks to Elon Musk
Half a decade after he was kicked off Twitter by the platform’s safety team, professional conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been welcomed back to the site, which is now called X. Read more...
The war in Elon’s head
kbps,
Everybody’s been talking about Elon’s “go fuck yourself” moment from DealBook, and the expletive is what is making most of the headlines. From a distance it could be easy to see this as just a petulant outburst from someone upset with the financial struggles of his company, but considering what he went on to say […]
Elon Musk Unveils Plans for Starship Version Two
Moving swiftly and learning through failure, SpaceX says it’s already looking ahead to version 2 of the Starship upper stage. Read more...