Tag: Elon Musk
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T-Mobile and SpaceX’s Satellite-Cellular Partnership May Be Grounded For Now
A little more than a year ago, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk came together to unveil a partnership to offer a hybrid service that utilized satellites to boost the coverage and range of cellphones, with a promises of expanding coverage and eliminating dead zones for customers. Fast forward to today, and…
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Elon Musk’s Start-Up Neuralink Is Looking for People To Join Its Brain-Implant Trial
Elon Musk’s Neuralink said it has received approval to start human clinical trials for its wireless brain-computer interface, or BCI. The Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface study, or Prime Study, intends to examine the safety and functionality of the implant for paralysis patients. A surgical robot will place the BCI in the part of the…
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Elon Musk Says He Will Start Charging All X (Twitter) Users “A Few Dollars” a Month
X, formerly Twitter, may soon be more expensive to use, if an Elon Musk teases is to be believed. Musk raised the idea of charging all users of X in the middle of a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bloomberg reporter Dave Lee first tweeted on Monday (You can see the full conversation,…
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Starlink Reportedly Has 1.5 Million Customers, Far Short of its Goal of 20 Million by 2022
When SpaceX launched Starlink, the company anticipated reaching 20 million users by 2022. However, by the end of last year, the satellite internet provider fell short of that goal, nabbing only 1 million customers. Its current base now stands at 1.5 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Starlink’s revenue last year totaled $1.4 billion,…
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You Have to See This Tesla Drive-In Movie Supercharger
A diner and drive-in movie theater where you can charge your electric car sounds like something concocted in the mind of Doc Brown, but Tesla plans to make it a reality in Los Angeles. The electric car company nabbed a permit for Diner and Drive-In Movie Supercharger, according to Teslarati. The restaurant-movie theater charger station…
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SpaceX Wants to Boost the Speed of its Starlink Satellite Internet Service
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is working with online content delivery services provider Cloudflare to boost the speed of its Starlink satellite internet service, according to The Information. The two companies are working together to see if they can increase the performance of Starlink’s network of mini data centers located around the world, The Information reported, citing…
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Musk Plans To Kill X (Twitter) Headlines For “Esthetics”
X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk plans to remove headlines and description text from posts on the social media site, according to a report from Fortune, leaving only the article’s main image. Musk later confirmed the news in a reply to X News Daily. “This is coming from me directly,” Musk wrote. “Will greatly improve…