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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


The Elon Musk Show review: Searching for the man who is Elon Musk

The Elon Musk Show review: Searching for the man who is Elon Musk

13 October 2022

As Elon Musk becomes wealthier and more powerful, we need to know more about the man whose projects are transforming the world. But as a new documentary shows, it is hard grappling with the reality of someone with such disparate labels as hero, villain,...


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Lori Garver on why NASA is returning to the moon for the wrong reasons

14 September 2022

Ex-NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver helped create the now-booming private space industry. But she says NASA is still too focused on using its moon programme to provide jobs for US workers


The hyperloop: will Elon Musk's technology be the future of transport?

The hyperloop: will Elon Musk's technology be the future of transport?

28 April 2020

Get up to speed on the revolutionary technology that could soon be moving us faster than ever with HYP-ED technical director Daniel Carbonell.


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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


Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

8 July 2019

Unlike the Apollo missions, the new era of moon exploration might be about mining, tourism or art. The reason we pick to return will define the moon's future


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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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The race to build a space internet available to anyone, anywhere

1 May 2019

Tech billionaires are building a wireless, orbiting internet accessible in even the deepest jungle. The first satellites are already up - but do we really want it?


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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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