Elon Musk

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."
SpaceX launches 54 Starlink satellites, lands rocket at sea
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According to space.com, a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 54 Starlink spacecraft, lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida Saturday at 11:41 p.m. EDT (0341 GMT) on August 28. That was about 80 minutes later than initially planned, as SpaceX waited for some bad weather to clear. A little less than nine minutes after launch, the Falcon 9's first stage came down to Earth for a landing on the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast.
Elon Musk hopes for a self-sustaining city on Mars in 20 years
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Musk said in a tweet: "I hope there is a self-sustaining city on Mars in 20 years!" Last month, the world's richest man said he was optimistic that "humanity will reach Mars in your lifetime". "Without a common goal, humanity will fight itself. The Moon brought us together in 1969, Mars can do that in the future," Musk had said.
Recall Tesla's 'manslaughtering' FSD tech: Ex-US prez candidate
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Nader, a political and consumer protection advocate, has called on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the US to remove FSD technology from every Tesla. According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the technology is available in nearly 100,000 vehicles. "Tesla should never have put this technology in its vehicles. Now over 100,000 Tesla owners are currently using technology that research shows malfunctions every eight minutes," Nader said in a statement late on Wednesday. "
I've slept with hundreds of women in my head: Elon Musk's father
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After revealing last month that he had a second child with his own stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout, Errol now said that he is not a serial womaniser despite claims of countless lovers and fathering two children with his own stepdaughter, reports The Mirror. "I wish I was a Lothario. I think every man would love to be one but I'm not," he was quoted as saying in the report.
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