[ad_1] Elon Musk made the announcement on Twitter shortly after the 2019 Hyperloop Pod competition. Next year’s @Hyperloop competition will be in a 10km vacuum tunnel with a curve — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 22 July 2019 The Hyperloop competition is a student engineering challenge where teams are invited to design and build a prototype vehicle […]
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink hopes to put sensors in human brains next year
[ad_1] While we wait for Neuralink to present the progress it’s made over the last couple of years in brain-computer interface technology, the New York Times has already published information from an early briefing and it’s stuff that’s straight out of science fiction. The Elon Musk-backed company claims its “sewing machine-like” robot can implant threads […]
Tesla’s dashboard Sketchpad is getting an upgrade
[ad_1] Wish granted ?. New Sketchpad features are rolling out in our next software update. What will you draw? ? https://t.co/eXUm4k24qH — Tesla (@Tesla) June 28, 2019 While it didn’t spell out exactly what’s on the way to Sketchpad, last month, one Tesla owner asked for a color picker, saturation controls and more extensive undo […]
New York Senate passes ban on Elon Musk’s Not-A-Flamethrower
[ad_1] A bill has yet to come to a vote in the state Assembly, although the 48-13 vote in the Senate suggests it won’t have much trouble clearing the other chamber. It’s no secret why they want flamethrowers like Musk’s banned. While Boring’s device isn’t technically a flamethrower (it’s more of a torch attached to […]
Elon Musk: 'The Simulation, The Simulation, The Simulation'
[ad_1] A young woman wanted to know how much she needed to beg to take a selfie with him. A young man wanted to know if he could get his CyberPunk 2077 hat autographed. These are the kind of questions people were asking Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tes… [ad_2] Source link
After Math: What's the holdup?
[ad_1] This week's theme is waiting. Sonic the Hedgehog fans will have to do three months of it after complaining about Sonic's oddly human teeth, while Julian Assange won't have to do any more to know what charges the Feds are leveling at him. Let's get st… [ad_2] Source link
The Boring Company gets the go-ahead to build Las Vegas transport tunnel
[ad_1] According to the company’s website, the typical walk time between the New Exhibit Hall to the existing North/Central Hall is around 15 minutes. A trip aboard one of the Loop’s modified Tesla vehicles will take only a minute. TechCrunch says the company will build twin tunnels for vehicles, which is expected to be shorter […]
Watch SpaceX launch a Falcon 9 loaded with internet satellites at 11 PM ET (updated)
[ad_1] SpaceX already revealed more about how its Starlink internet-providing satellites will work, and now it has to put the first 60 in space. According to Elon Musk, this is the heaviest payload ever for SpaceX, and each launch will “deliver 1 terabit of bandwidth to the Earth.” The launch window is scheduled to open […]
SpaceX is building another Starship in Florida
[ad_1] After a poster on NASASpaceflight.com uploaded pictures of another Starship vehicle (f.k.a. BFR) under construction in Florida — to go along with prototypes being built in Texas — Elon Musk explained what’s going on. The CEO tweeted that “SpaceX is doing simultaneous competing builds of Starship in Boca Chica Texas & Cape Canaveral Florida.” […]
Elon Musk shows SpaceX’s first internet satellites ready for launch
[ad_1] Musk further noted that the launch timing was variable, but was “currently tracking” to May 15th (he also raised the possibility of a May 14th takeoff). He warned that “much will likely go wrong” on this first deployment, and that it would take six more similar launches to achieve “minor” broadband coverage, and twice […]