Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Elon Musk named Time magazine person of the year

Elon Musk named Time magazine person of the year

WASHINGTON, (AFP) – Time magazine on Monday named Tesla chief and space entrepreneur Elon Musk as its person of the year 2021, citing his embodiment of the technological shifts but also troubling trends reshaping people’s lives. Musk — who overtook Amazon founder Jeff Bezos this year to become the world’s wealthiest person — wields impact … Read more

Tesla plans to produce 30,000 vehicles in Germany in first half of 2022

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CAIRO: Tesla will start production operations in Germany in December, Bloomberg reported, citing Automobilwoche. The California-based automaker will aim to produce 30,000 vehicles in Germany in the first half of 2022. Tesla had planned to begin production in Germany in July, but that date was postponed due to a failure to comply with environmental regulations. German local … Read more

Tesla drivers back behind wheel after server problem: Musk

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WASHINGTON: Tesla CEO Elon Musk reported late on Friday that an app problem that was keeping a number of drivers worldwide from using their cars was on the mend after a server issue was resolved. Multiple Tesla drivers tweeted that they were no longer able to start their cars with their phone apps and had … Read more

Twitter votes Elon Musk should sell 10 per cent of Tesla stock

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NEW YORK: Twitter has spoken – after Elon Musk polled his more than 62 million followers on whether he should sell 10 per cent of his Tesla shares, by Sunday a majority had voted “yes.” “I was prepared to accept either outcome,” said Musk, who regularly takes to Twitter to make unexpected announcements or surprising … Read more

Uber plans to acquire 50,000 Tesla cars by 2023

Uber – the ride-hailing application, has made up its mind to add 50,000 Teslas to its current fleet so as to switch to EVs completely by the year 2023. The company has reportedly joined hands with the rent-a-car service, Hertz. The latter announced that it had added 100,000 EVs to its platform, yesterday. Many transportation … Read more

SpaceX Starship all set to make its first orbital launch; ‘pending regulatory approval,’ says Musk

SpaceX starship is gearing up for its first orbital launch attempt next month, with only a few developments yet to be made for instance, vacuum-rated Raptor engine installation, and launch tower construction. The starship will jet off into the space once it gets the green light from the regulatory authorities, according to the SpaceX and … Read more

“Congrats, was cool to send William Shatner to space”, Musk congratulates Bezos on Blue Origin’s spaceflight

Elon Musk, the famous founder of Tesla, recently congratulated his rival Jeff Bezos, the founder to Amazon, on his aerospace company, Blue Origin’s successful flight into space. Blue Origin sent 4 passengers to space on a trip that lasted approximately 11 minutes. The passengers included employees of NASA and Blue Origin, and none other than … Read more

Elon Musk says Tesla moving headquarters to Texas

Elon Musk says Tesla moving headquarters to Texas

Tesla chief Elon Musk told investors on Thursday that the leading electric vehicle maker is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Texas, where it is building a plant. “I’m excited to announce that we’re moving our headquarters to Austin, Texas,” Musk said at an annual shareholders meeting. “Just to be clear, though, we will be continuing to expand our activities in California.” Musk … Read more

Tesla ordered to pay ex-worker $137 million over racial abuse

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SAN FRANCISCO: A jury in California ordered Tesla to pay a former employee US$137 million in damages for turning a blind eye to racism the man encountered at the firm’s auto plant in Fremont. Owen Diaz was hired through a staffing agency as an elevator operator at the electric vehicle maker’s Fremont factory between June 2015 and July … Read more

Elon Musk becomes world’s richest man, surpasses Amazon’s Bezos

Apple vs Fortnite: Elon Musk Says Apple Fees are De Facto Global Tax

RIYADH: A surge in Tesla shares pushed the net worth of Elon Musk to $200 billion to make him the richest person in the world, surpassing Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Forbes reported. Musk became the third person to ever be worth $200 billion. Shares of Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla continued a four-month rally, closing up … Read more

Elon Musk and his girlfriend Grimes are ‘semi-separated,’ co-parenting their son

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LOS ANGELES: After three years together, Elon Musk and his girlfriend, Canadian musician Grimes, are “semi-separated,” the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX told Page Six in a piece published on Friday. Musk told the publication that the couple, who started dating in May 2018, are still on good terms and co-parenting their one-year-old son, … Read more

“I am not a ‘big fan’ of cryptocurrencies”, Donald Trump

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Ex-President Donald Trump expressed his dislike for cryptocurrencies in an interview on Tuesday. Trump stated in an interview that “I have not been a big fan of cryptos,”

Whereas the interview focused mostly on Trump’s response to America’s Afghanistan departure, he didn’t slip a chance to share his opinions on the vastly unstable digital asset.

The worth of BTC fell in June after Donald Trump called it a “scam.”

His comments arise just days later hedge fund star John Paulson criticized Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as basically “worthless.”

The former president’s son and an executive vice president in the family company, Eric Trump, In meantime highlighted his father’s derision for digital currency.

Eric Trump stated, “Typically we have gravitated to tangible assets — something one can see and touch, that has replacement cost, that’s unique, iconic.”

The price of Bitcoin has jumped in recent weeks, even after being criticized.

The previous month the price of Bitcoin fell below $30,000 but has been increasingly rising to $47,000 later that point. In the last year alone, the disreputably unstable Bitcoin dropped from around $10,000 in October to more than $60,000 at one point in April.

Crypto prices can simply be prejudiced by remarks and tweets from the likes of Tesla CEO Elon Musk — who at several points recognized bitcoin as payment for Teslas.

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban also has a past of affecting the price of cryptocurrencies with his tweets — Dogecoin rushed after he publicized he would agree to take it as payment for several products he sells as part of his Dallas Mavericks franchise.

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Tesla’s robot will make physical work a ‘choice’

After dominating the electric vehicle market and throwing his hat into the billionaire space race, Tesla boss Elon Musk announced the latest frontier he’s aiming at conquering: humanoid robots, the company said in a statement. The irascible entrepreneur said he would have an initial prototype of an androgynous “Tesla Bot” by next year. Based on … Read more

Bitcoin breaks back over $50,000 On Monday.

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Bitcoin broke back above $50,000 on Monday for the first time in three months, as investors piled back into the cryptocurrency on bargain-buying, AFP reported The unit climbed around 2 per cent to $50,249.15, its highest since the middle of May, when it began tumbling on a range of issues, including China‘s crackdown on crypto-currencies … Read more

10 mind blowing tech news to keep you updated with the current tech affairs

Here are some amazing technology related news that will make us realize we have been living under a rock all this time. Onlyfans is working on banning some adult content The UK based content subscription service has decided to block sexually explicit content in order to cut down pornography. During the pandemic the subscriptions of … Read more

Tesla is developing an AI-powered humanoid robot

Tesla is developing an AI-powered humanoid robot

The Tesla humanoid robot will be programmed to do dangerous and monotonous activities for people. Elon Musk revealed during the automaker’s AI Day event that Tesla is constructing a humanoid robot simply named the Tesla Bot. It’s designed to be nice, as well as sluggish and weak enough so you can outrun and overpower it … Read more

Sales of new-energy passenger vehicles soar in China 

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BEIJING: China saw a surge in sales of new-energy passenger vehicles in July, industry data showed. The retail sales of new-energy passenger cars reached 222,000 units, up 169.4 per cent year on year, according to the China Passenger Car Association.  The wholesale volume of new-energy passenger vehicles grew 202.9 per cent year on year to … Read more

Tesla Awards $1M to a Former Employee Over Being Called the ‘N-Word’

An arbitration award worth $1m has been offered to a former Black employee by the electric car manufacturing company, Tesla. The reward was given as a compensation, after the company failed to take strict actions against its employees spreading racism in the work place. Melvin Berry, who was hired as a materials handler in 2015, … Read more

Tesla Pays $1 Million to Former Employee, Reports Say

Tesla Pays $1 Million to Former Employee, Reports Say

A former Tesla employee was paid $1 million from the automaker when an arbitrator found out that the company failed to stop the supervisors from calling him a racial slur. Melvin Berry, a Black American, joined Tesla’s Alameda plant in California back in 2015. He claimed that his supervisors labelled him N-word. He was also … Read more

Bitcoin Prices Fall, Tesla and Square are Counting their Losses

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Some businesses that invested in bitcoin have reported losses as the cryptocurrency’s price has fallen, yet many others have profited.

During the BTC 2021 conference in Miami, Jack Dorsey, co-founder, and CEO of Twitter Inc. and Square Inc. participated.

Square announced late Sunday that its bitcoin-related investments cost the company $45 million in operating profits in the second quarter. That’s more than double the amount of money it lost in the first quarter.

In February, the digital payments firm said that it has purchased $170 million in BTC, doubling its previous buy from October 2020. As of the end of 2020, that accounted for roughly 5% of the company’s total assets. Square made the statement in its earnings report on Sunday, which was disclosed earlier than expected to coincide with the company’s $29 billion acquisition of Australian financial tech business Afterpay.

As bitcoin becomes more mainstream, businesses are increasingly embracing it. The world’s largest digital coin, however, had a difficult second quarter. BTC reached a high of $63,000 in April before plummeting to around $30,000 in early July. On Monday, Bitcoin was trading slightly around $39,000.

In its most recent quarter, Tesla, for example, reported a $23 million bitcoin-related impairment, according to the company’s second-quarter financial report released late last month.

This quarter, Square said it observed “significant year-over-year growth in bitcoin revenue.” BTC revenue reached $2.72 billion, a threefold increase year over year. Bitcoin’s gross profit was $55 million at the same time. This amounts to about 2% of bitcoin revenue.

The firm’s gross profit grew by 91 percent year over year, setting a new quarterly high. For the quarter, net sales excluding bitcoin were $1.96 billion, up 87 percent year over year.

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Tesla Megapack Catches Fire at Victorian Big Battery

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Tesla Megapack caught fire during initial testing of the most awaited new utility-scale battery in Victoria, Australia. Luckily, there were no casualties within the facility and its surroundings, CNBC reported. The fire did not pose any risk to the nearby community, according to Bloomberg. However, it did release toxic smoke, which triggered a warning for … Read more

Ethereum co-founder, Musk should not see the crypto industry as a joke

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During a recent interview with BNN Bloomberg, Ethereum co-founder Anthony Di Iorio expressed his dissatisfaction with Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

According to Di Iorio, people like Musk have the ability to bring about significant change.

However, he feels that they should concentrate on real issues rather than frivolous ones:

He said, “I’m just really wishing that their energy is going to be focused around educating people, and not having fun with something that’s so important”.

Musk, who owns Ether, has garnered the ire of many in the cryptocurrency community for pushing the joke cryptocurrency Dogecoin and helping to propel its market valuation to a staggering $90 billion in early May.

The billionaire continues to promote the cryptocurrency with regular tweets and memes, but his social media clout hasn’t helped the cryptocurrency climb out of the enormous hole it dug during the latest market correction.

From its high on May 8, the meme coin has dropped more than 72%.

Ethereum co-founder Di Iorio also chastised individuals who use technology to inflate their own tokens.

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Bitcoin climbs in Asian trade 

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SINGAPORE: Cryptocurrencies popped to the top of recent ranges on Monday as short-sellers bailed out in the wake of a strong week and traders hoped a handful of positive comments from influential investors might signal a turnaround in fragile sentiment, agencies report. In Asian trade, Bitcoin rose as far as 12.5 per cent to hit … Read more

Dogecoin 10% up after Elon Musk changed his Twitter profile picture

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After Tesla CEO Elon Musk updated his Twitter profile picture to indicate his support for the meme cryptocurrency, Dogecoin price jumped 9.7% overnight to $0.19.

Musk’s new profile photo is a headshot of him wearing mirrored aviators with a reflection of the Shiba Inu meme, which is the inspiration for Dogecoin.

Musk’s use of “Doge eyes” to show his support for Dogecoin is most likely a reference to Bitcoin’s #LaserRayUntil100k meme, in which users add laser eyes to their social media profile images to show their support. Musk was a part of the excitement for a short time, along with Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy, who has kept the laser eyeballs alive to this day.

According to crypto data aggregator CoinMarketCap, Dogecoin’s overnight price rise ultimately leaves the currency 11 percent less valuable than it was seven days ago.

Elon Musk pumping the price of Doge by 40% in half an hour with one tweet.

Co-creator of Dogecoin Jackson Palmer also launched a broadside beside his former project earlier this week, taking to Twitter to state his opinion that all crypto is “an inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology built primarily to amplify the wealth of its proponents through a combination of tax avoidance, diminished regulatory oversight, and artificially enforced scarcity.”

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Still, in spite of the roasting vote of no-confidence from one of the most effective software programmers in crypto’s new history, Dogecoin is the only top 20 currency to have experienced a major price movement overnight.

In related news, Musk also updated his followers about his son’s Dogecoin holdings, which he first told the world about back in February.

Apparently, “Lil X is hodling his Doge like a champ. Literally never said the word “sell” even once!”

 

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Tesla can now be bought for bitcoin, Elon Musk tweeted

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Tesla customers can now purchase electric vehicles using bitcoin, according to Elon Musk, the company’s CEO.

This is a huge step forward for bitcoin‘s usage in commerce.

“You can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin,” Elon Musk said on Twitter, The option will be available outside of the US later this year, according to the company.

Last month, the electric-car producer said that it had purchased $1.5 billion in bitcoin and would soon accept it as a form of payment for automobiles, marking a significant step toward widespread acceptance that pushed bitcoin to a new high of about $62,000.

After Musk’s tweet, Bitcoin, the world’s most valuable digital currency, jumped more than 4% to US$56,429 at the time of posting.

Musk stated that bitcoin payments to Tesla would not be converted into traditional currency, but he provided some further information about how the payments would be handled. The company was using “internal & open source software,” he said.

Most major companies that accept bitcoin payments, such as AT&T Inc and Microsoft Corp, rely on specialized payment processors to convert bitcoin into, dollars and transmit the money to the company.

Because of its volatility and relatively expensive and slow processing periods, bitcoin, like other cryptocurrencies, is currently infrequently used for commerce in wealthy nations.

Musk, who frequently makes comments about cryptocurrencies on Twitter, criticized conventional money last month, saying that “has a negative real interest, only a fool wouldn’t look elsewhere.”

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Here’s why Tesla is no longer using radar sensors in vehicles

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Elon Musk’s Tesla has begun the process of removing radar sensors from its production cars. According to the reports, the New Model 3 and Model Y vehicles designed for North America will no longer have radar onboard to allow driver assistance features including Autopilot and its “Full Self Driving” system. Tesla was still concentrating on … Read more

Cryptocurrencies Recover after Elon Musk’s Cryptic Tweet

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The crypto society briefly lost faith in Elon Musk’s “whispering” abilities after his undesirable remarks about Bitcoin, the fan-following looks like it’s going back towards him after most cryptocurrencies boasted immense recoveries from Wednesday’s introspective losses. Similar to the buildup trends which led to the market’s big collapse in as few as 3 hours yesterday, … Read more

The Tesla Autopilot “tricked” into running without a Driver

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The autopilot function in Tesla vehicles can be made to work without a driver, an influential consumer magazine in the United States discovered. Consumer Reports engineers analyzed claims that autopilot can operate without a driver. They tested the Model Y on a closed track and came to the conclusion that the system could be “easy … Read more