Tag: Elon Musk
SpaceX capsule departs International Space Station for Atlantic splashdown
SpaceX’s new crew capsule has undocked from the International Space Station and is heading towards an old-fashioned splashdown. The Dragon capsule pulled away from the orbiting lab with a test dummy named Ripley as its lone occupant. It is aiming for a splashdown in the Atlantic off Florida’s coast, the final hurdle of the six-day…
SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule completes space station docking
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, completing its second milestone in just over a day. No-one was on board the Dragon capsule that launched Saturday on its first test flight, only an instrumented dummy. Up early? Here's your opportunity to watch the remarkable 17,500 mph, in-orbit dance that brings together…
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft blasts off into space
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft took off on Saturday morning, marking the first major step towards US ambitions to resume sending astronauts into space on its own spacecraft on American soil. The un-crewed spacecraft launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 2.49am local time (7.49am UK time) as planned, on top of a Falcon…
Israel flying to moon aboard Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
An Israeli spacecraft has rocketed towards the moon aboard Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for the country’s first attempted lunar landing. A communications satellite for Indonesia was the main cargo aboard the Falcon 9 rocket, which illuminated the sky as it took flight. But Israel’s privately funded lunar lander — a first not just for…
OpenAI shows how AI could be used to write fake news stories
Researchers have demonstrated how artificial intelligence could be used to write fake news stories with little input from humans. OpenAI, with backers including Elon Musk and Microsoft, have decided not to release the entire AI system code, known as GPT-2, over concerns about how it could be abused to produce convincing fake news on a…
Is Tesla Dog Mode a good idea? No, say animal charities RSPCA and Blue Cross
Animal charities have expressed ‘serious concerns’ over Tesla’s Dog Mode which is designed to keep pets cool in unattended cars. RSPCA and Blue Cross worry that the technology could fail and promotes the wrong message. The software update, which has been made available on all Tesla models this week, allows owners to leave the air…
Electric car maker Tesla to cut workforce after a difficult year
Tesla is to cut its workforce by about 7% after a difficult year for the electric car maker. “The road ahead is very difficult,” the company’s founder and CEO Elon Musk said in an email to employees. He said Tesla hopes to post a “tiny profit” in the current quarter but that after expanding its…
SpaceX founder Elon Musk reveals assembled Starship test rocket
Space X and Tesla Founder Elon Musk has revealed images of his assembled Starship hopper test rocket, as the entrepreneur continues to explore ways of one day sending people to places as far as Mars. The SpaceX founder shared the first real images of the prototype from its Texas launch site, telling Twitter followers it…
Japanese billionaire boasts retweet top spot with money giveaway promise
A Japanese billionaire posted the most retweeted tweet of all time by offering those sharing it a cut of 100 million yen. Yusaku Maezawa’s January 5 post, which has more than 4.6 million retweets, promised to randomly select 100 people who shared the tweet and followed his profile for a share in the £726,000 fund.…
Elon Musk unveils The Boring Company’s traffic-busting underground tunnel
Image: Press Association Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has unveiled his ground-breaking underground transportation tunnel, which he hopes will provide an answer to “soul-destroying traffic” across the world. Reporters and invited guests took some of the first journeys in the subterranean tube system beneath the surface of Los Angeles, which could…