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May 26, 2018
SpaceX’s prototype internet satellites are good enough for gaming, Elon Musk says
Posted by Genevieve Klien 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.
May 25, 2018
A tiny start-up could beat Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg at linking brains and computers
Posted by Klaus Baldauf 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
May 24, 2018
Self-Driving Cars Have a Big Problem: Americans Don’t Trust Them
Posted by Bill Kemp 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 Klaus Baldauf 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 Bill Kemp 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.
May 14, 2018
Elon Musk says LA-area test tunnel almost complete (Update)
Posted by Bill Kemp 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.
May 13, 2018
The Flying Tesla is Coming, Sooner or Later
Posted by B.J. Murphy in categories: Elon Musk, space, sustainability, transportation
We’ve all dreamed of owning, or at the very least being a passenger of, a flying car. It’s the sci-fi dream that never transpired — until recently, that is. With a growing emphasis of developing flying taxis among several different companies, one wonders if the revolutionary Tesla Motors has plans to join in on this new venture.
Could Elon Musk’s random tweet from late last year be an indicator of Tesla’s interest in flying cars and their joining of this brand new “space race?”
May 12, 2018
How to Prepare for What’s Coming In the Future and AI
Posted by Dave Holt in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI
Let’s look at and discuss what Jack Ma, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are saying about artificial intelligence, along with my own thoughts and ideas on the subject.
AI — Artificial Intelligence is changing our world quickly and our future, just in the next 15 years, will be unimaginable. Learn how to prepare for it and what Tech Billionaires Elon Musk, Jack Ma, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos think will happen…find out here!
May 11, 2018
SpaceX launches Block 5 Falcon 9, a radically reusable rocket
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
Elon Musk and his rocket company just sent a rocket to space that’s designed to do the same thing 99 more times.