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Dorsey, Musk bat for Bitcoin as future of renewable energy
Dorsey's digital payment services company Square and global asset manegement firm ARK Invest have jointly released a white paper on "Bitcoin as Key to an Abundant, Clean Energy Future". In a tweet on Wednesday, Dorsey said: "Bitcoin incentivises renewable energy."
Cheaper internet service 'fully mobile' by 2021 end: Elon Musk
The satellite broadband company will double the internet speed to 300 Mbps this year. The company currently promises speeds between 50 and 150 Mbps for the Starlink project that plans to deliver high-speed internet through a network of about 12,000 satellites. The company has already put over 1,200 of its Starlink satellites in orbit.
Elon Musk's Neuralink shows how monkey plays Pong with his mind
Pager, a nine-year-old macaque monkey, had a Neuralink chip implanted about six weeks before the video was shot. The monkey was first trained to play the Pong video game with a joystick for a banana reward. The Neuralink device recorded information about which neurons were firing as the money played the video game.
I never spoke to Elon Musk on buying Tesla: Tim Cook
Musk in December last year tweeted that he offered Cook to sell his electric car company at one-tenth of its value during the struggling period in 2017 but the Apple CEO refused to meet him. In an interview with The New York Times on Monday, Cook said that talks never happened. "You know, I've never spoken to Elon, although I have great admiration and respect for the company he's built," Cook was quoted as saying.
SpaceX wins contract to launch NASA's astrophysics mission
The planned two-year mission is called SPHEREx, short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer. The near-infrared light, which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions involving the birth of the universe, and the subsequent development of galaxies, according to NASA.
Wired up monkey's brain to play video games: Elon Musk
The monkey "looks totally happy" and that Neuralink's facilities meet US regulatory requirements, Musk said during a talk on Clubhouse app -- a new social media app, adding that "You can't even see where the neural implant was put in, except that he's got a slight like dark mohawk."
Tesla's new Model S will automatically shift by 'guessing'
The removal of the PRND stalk that the Model S and Model X previously featured is part of a wider overhaul of the interior design of those vehicles, the report said.Tesla has ditched its circular steering wheel in favour of one that's U-shaped -- a decision that Roadshow reports have already drawn the interest of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the federal safety regulator for motor vehicles, it added.
Tesla has better software, hardware than Waymo: Elon Musk
Recently, Waymo CEO John Krafcik, in an interview with Manager Magazine, said Tesla has taken a misguided approach to developing fully autonomous cars and its "full self-driving" system will fail to live up to its billing.
Musk to donate $100 mn for best carbon capture technology
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a combination of technologies designed to prevent the release of Carbon dioxide generated through conventional power generation and industrial production processes by injecting the Carbon dioxide in suitable underground storage reservoirs.
US tells Tesla to recall 158,000 cars for failing displays
The agency is investigating a potential safety-related defect concerning incidents of media control unit (MCU) failures resulting in loss of rearview camera and other safety related vehicle functions in certain Tesla models. It has found that the problem lies with worn-out flash memory chips used in the displays of 2012-2018 Model S sedans and 2016-2018 Model X SUVs.
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