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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Adrien Fillon/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock (13517576d) Elon Musk completes $44 billion deal to own Twitter. Elon Musk has officially taken control of the social network and already fired leaders. 'The bird is freed'', he tweeted soon after the announcement. Stock pictures - Clermont-Ferrand, October 28, 2022. Elon Musk Completes $44 Billion Deal To Own Twitter, Clermont Ferrand, Auvergne Rhone Alpes, France - 28 Oct 2022

Twitter misinformation project may be at risk after Elon Musk takeover

2 November 2022

Birdwatch, an attempt to tackle misinformation on Twitter by providing additional context to false claims in tweets, appears to be working - but the project may no longer be a priority under Elon Musk's leadership


This photograph taken on September 25, 2022, shows an antenna of the Starlink satellite-based broadband system donated by the US tech billionaire Elon Musk in Izyum, Kharkiv region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

What's next if SpaceX won't fund Starlink in Ukraine?

14 October 2022

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the company can no longer pay for the Starlink satellites providing internet for Ukraine’s government and military. What you need to know


What’s next now Tesla is worth a trillion dollars?

What’s next now Tesla is worth a trillion dollars?

1 November 2021

Financially speaking, Tesla is a massive success. The question is what will it do with all that money, wonders Rowan Hooper


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Why have Elon Musk and Tesla suddenly turned against bitcoin?

13 May 2021

Elon Musk has performed a sudden U-turn on bitcoin over concerns about its energy usage, and says his electric car firm Tesla will no longer accept the cryptocurrency as payment


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The rocket Elon Musk wants to send to Mars is almost ready to launch

30 September 2019

Elon Musk's giant Starship rocket is due to take passengers on a trip around the moon in 2020. Last night, he said orbital tests will begin within two months


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Is our technology shifting us and the planet into a different era?

24 July 2019

James Lovelock, famed for Gaia theory, suggests that cyborgs will be Earth’s dominant species. If Elon Musk’s Neuralink is any indicator, the idea isn’t so fanciful


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Working hypothesis: from Raspberry Pi to abolishing time

26 June 2019

Our regular column sorting the week's supernovae from the absolute zeros


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James Bond is making the switch to an electric car, so when will you?

19 March 2019

You don’t need to be green to embrace an electric car – their design and performance now rivals their gas-guzzling equivalents, says Jason Barlow


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The first detailed look at how Elon Musk's space internet could work

7 November 2018

Elon Musk has revealed little about his plans to provide internet from space, but a new simulation shows how it could work and who will be able to afford it


The rescue submarine designed by Elon Musk's engineers

Elon Musk’s submarine plan to rescue Thai cave boys deserves respect

11 July 2018

It's easy to mock Elon Musk's very public brand of techno-utopianism but the world needs engineering icons like him, says Mark Harris


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