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Twitter spews 'lies all across the world', Biden slams Elon Musk
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Joe Biden made these comments during a fundraising event for Illinois Democratic Representatives Lauren Underwood and Sean Casten, reports Fox Business.
SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy for the first time since 2019
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According to CNET, on November 1 at 9.43 a.m. ET (7.13 p.m. IST), the Falcon Heavy mission, known as USSF 44, lifted off from pad 39-A at Florida's Kennedy Space Center with a military micro-satellite prototype named TETRA-1 and a larger, unconfirmed satellite. The rocket's side boosters returned for a successful, nearly simultaneous landing not far from the launch pad less than 10 minutes after liftoff. After launching a classified payload into orbit for the US Space Force, the central core booster was disposed of in the ocean.
Users will soon be able to pick a Twitter version they like better: Elon Musk
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"Being able to select which version of Twitter you want is probably better, much as it would be for a movie maturity rating," he tweeted. Elon Musk added: "The rating of the tweet itself could be self-selected, then modified by user feedback". The world's richest man also said that "comedy is now legal on Twitter".
SpaceX is all set for its 30th Starlink launch of 2022
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According to Teslarati, no earlier than (NET) 10:50 am EDT (14:50 UTC) on Thursday, a Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from SpaceX's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) LC-40 launch pad with 54 internet satellites in tow. Weighing in at 16.75 tonnes (36,900 lb), the batch of Starlink V1.5 satellites is one of just a few left for SpaceX to complete the second of five 'shells' that make up its first constellation.
Will Elon Mus make Vaibhav Balghare next Twitter celebrity from India?
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Elon Musk recently responded to Balghare, a 22-year-old computer engineering student, who is into coding and cloud computing. A student of Suman Ramesh Tulsiani Technical Campus -- Faculty of Engineering, Balghare told IANS that he never thought Musk would reply to him.
Musk denies talking to Putin recently about Ukraine war
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According to CNBC, Bremmer's note went out earlier this week to clients. Investor Sven Henrich asked Musk, via his Twitter account "@northmantrader," if the report was accurate. "No, it is not. I have spoken to Putin only once and that was about 18 months ago. The subject matter was space," the Tesla and SpaceX CEO tweeted. Later on Tuesday, Bremmer doubled down, writing that Musk had told him that he spoke directly with Putin and the Kremlin about Ukraine.
Elon Musk calls Trump's 'Truth Social' app a 'Trumpet' and 'right-wing echo chamber'
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The world's richest man with a net worth of $219 billion said he bought Twitter to make it "maximally trusted and inclusive". Musk and the former President have traded jabs in the past. The billionaire slammed Trump's social media app, Truth Social, in a recent interview with Financial Times of London, the Business Insider reported on Friday.
Donald Trump may return to Twitter if Elon Musk buys the platform and lifts ban
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Musk has said that he would lift the ban on Trump once he buys Twitter. Trump's Twitter account was permanently suspended 'due to the risk of further incitement of violence', the company had said after the supporters of then President Trump stormed the US Capitol on January 6 last year.
S.Korea to shun Russian rockets, to go with Musk's SpaceX
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The government had planned to launch the Korea Multipurpose Satellite 6, known as the Arirang 6, on Russia's Angara 1.2 vehicle later this year from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia and a next-generation midsized observational satellite aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Elon Musk throws a solution for ailing NASA's Artemis 1 mission
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NASA engineers could not overcome a hydrogen leak in a 'quick disconnect' phase of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket launch on Saturday. According to Eric Berger of Ars Technica, NASA has a tolerance for a small amount of hydrogen leakage and anything above a 4 per cent concentration of hydrogen near the 'quick disconnect' is considered a flammability hazard. Musk replied to Berger's 'accurate assessment', saying that "Raptor design started out using H2 (hydrogen), but switched to CH4 (hydrogen). Latter is the best combo of high efficiency and ease of operation in my opinion."
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