Elon Musk: News
10 Jan 2021
FacebookWhatsApp claims Terms of Service change only affects business accounts
WhatsApp recently pushed a notification directing users to accept the revised Terms of Service by February 8.
09 Jan 2021
AppleApple negotiating with Hyundai to manufacture its self-driving electric car
According to a report by Korea Economic Daily, Apple is negotiating with Korean auto giant Hyundai for manufacturing its long speculated electric vehicle.
09 Jan 2021
FacebookWhatsApp issues ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or lose account
WhatsApp has updated its privacy policy and requires users' consent to share their data with Facebook and associated companies. Failure to agree to the new terms of service will cause your WhatsApp account to become inoperable.
08 Jan 2021
FacebookSignal's user count surges after Musk recommends it over WhatsApp
Signal, the privacy-centric messaging service, took to Twitter to thank new users for their support. It also took the opportunity to apologize for delays in delivery of verification codes preventing registration for many new users.
07 Jan 2021
SpaceXElon Musk surpasses Jeff Bezos to become world's richest person
Tesla Inc. and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has surpassed Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to become the world's richest person, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
29 Dec 2020
TeslaTesla to start operations in India next year
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, on Monday, said American electric car major, Tesla is set to start its operations in India next year.
28 Dec 2020
TeslaTesla Model 3 to arrive in India by June 2021
Tesla will launch its Model 3 sedan in India by the end of the first quarter of FY 2021-22 i.e. by June, as per ET Auto. The report notes that the bookings for the car will commence in January and the deliveries will begin soon after launch.
25 Dec 2020
SpaceXElon Musk says it's 'impossible' to take Tesla private
Billionaire Elon Musk has clarified that privatization of Tesla Inc. is impossible even though he is keen to spend more time on innovation rather than engineering, design, and general company operations, which limit the tech genius to some extent.
16 Nov 2020
SpaceXSpaceX's Crew Dragon 'Resilience' successfully launches 4 astronauts to ISS
Elon Musk-owned SpaceX has successfully launched four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on its Crew Dragon 'Resilience' spacecraft—its first-ever operational space taxi flight for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
12 Nov 2020
SpaceXNASA officially certifies SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft for human spaceflights
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the US has officially certified Elon Musk-owned SpaceX to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) on its Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket.
29 Sep 2020
XNewsBytes Briefing: Microsoft 365 suffered an outage, and more
Last night, Microsoft 365 suffered a major outage due to an internal change and left essential web services down for hours, including Microsoft Office 365, Teams, and Outlook.
28 Sep 2020
SpaceXSpaceX slightly modifies its plan for Starship's first 'high-altitude' flight
SpaceX is inching closer to the first-ever 'high altitude' test flight of Starship, the rocket expected to fly to Mars one day, making humans a multi-planetary species.
23 Sep 2020
MicrosoftNewsBytes Briefing: China won't approve TikTok deal, and more
Even as TikTok, Oracle, and Walmart came close to finalizing a deal, China is not ready to let the service off the hook.
21 Sep 2020
IndiaTesla is in talks to open research center in Bengaluru
For years, Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of EV maker Tesla, has been teasing that their cars would come to India.
13 Sep 2020
SpaceXSoon, Starship's SN8 prototype will fly up to 60,000 feet
SpaceX's next Starship prototype will soon be attempting a major high-altitude flight.
13 Sep 2020
MicrosoftElon Musk says Bill Gates is clueless about electric trucks
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of EV maker Tesla, has slammed Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates over his views on the future of electric trucks.
02 Sep 2020
Artificial Intelligence and Machine LearningThis AI-powered tool can write professional emails from basic one-liners
Working from home or not, email continues to be a key tool of communication for sharing project reports, updates, and other work-related messages.
29 Aug 2020
TechnologyMusk gives live demo of Neuralink's upgraded brain-computer implant
A few hours ago, Elon Musk took to the stage to unveil the upgraded brain-computer implant developed by Neuralink, a start-up he co-founded in 2016 to connect humans with machines.
28 Aug 2020
Artificial Intelligence and Machine LearningElon Musk's Neuralink is set to unveil 'working' brain-computer interface
In 2016, Elon Musk founded Neuralink, a start-up that strived to "connect humans with computers."
19 Aug 2020
Mukesh AmbaniNewsBytes Briefing: Reliance buys Netmeds, SpaceX's biggest fund-raise, and more
In the last few hours, renowned tech giants took major strides.
05 Aug 2020
MoonSpaceX's Starship prototype flies, lands for the first time
After months of pressure tests and development efforts, the prototype of SpaceX's Starship deep-space rocket has gotten off the ground.
02 Aug 2020
SpaceXUniversal's $200 million budget to fuel Cruise-Musk's space film
Brace for impact as Universal Pictures has agreed to fund actor Tom Cruise and tech giant Elon Musk's ambitious space movie with a $200 million budget.
31 Jul 2020
SpaceXKuiper constellation: Amazon gets approval to provide internet from space
After e-commerce, web services, entertainment, Amazon is set to take on Elon Musk's SpaceX in the booming "internet-from-space" category.
28 Jul 2020
SpaceXElon Musk says AI will outsmart humans in 5 years
For years, Elon Musk, the billionaire tech mogul who leads Tesla, SpaceX, and has placed many futuristic bets, has been raising alarms over the dangers of artificial intelligence — and the urgent need for its regulation.
24 Jul 2020
FacebookNewsBytes Briefing: Russia accused of testing satellite-destroying technology, and more
In a strange piece of news, Russia has been accused of testing "what would appear to be [an] actual in-orbit anti-satellite weaponry," BBC reported.
23 Jul 2020
XTwitter hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts
Last week's massive Twitter hack left more than 100 high-profile accounts, including those of business magnates like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, compromised.
23 Jul 2020
MicrosoftNewsBytes Tech Briefing: Apple, Amazon offices raided in Italy
In the tech world, the news cycle was dominated by revenue reports and antitrust investigations.
22 Jul 2020
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning#NewsBytesExplainer: GPT-3, the powerful AI that generates stories, poems, code
Back in May, OpenAI, the AI start-up co-founded by Elon Musk, had announced an advanced language processing algorithm called 'GPT-3'.
19 Jul 2020
XAfter major hack, Indian government issues notice to Twitter
The Government of India has issued a notice to Twitter to get more details around how it became the target of a massive coordinated hack three days ago.
18 Jul 2020
Murder33-year-old tech entrepreneur murdered, body dismembered in NYC; aide arrested
The New York City Police made substantial headway in the investigation into the grisly murder of a young tech entrepreneur, as they arrested his 21-year-old former personal assistant on Friday.
16 Jul 2020
XTwitter hack: Musk, Obama, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, others compromised
Microblogging platform Twitter has been hit by a massive hack by cryptocurrency scammers.
14 Jul 2020
Mukesh AmbaniMukesh Ambani becomes 6th richest person in the world
After a massive fund-raising spree of Jio Platforms, Indian business magnate Mukesh Ambani has become the sixth-richest person in the world.
12 Jul 2020
SedanElon Musk hints at Tesla Model 3's arrival in India
Tesla's popular Model 3 sedan could arrive in India soon. In response to a query by Arvind Gupta (founder member of Digital India Foundation), who booked the car four years ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has replied that the launch should hopefully happen soon.
11 Jul 2020
Electric VehiclesMusk says Tesla cars are 'very close' to full autonomy
A new day, an old Elon Musk and a new hawkish claim!
10 Jul 2020
XElon Musk to soon give update on brain-computer interface company
A year ago, Elon Musk's secretive start-up Neuralink revealed how it plans to "connect humans with computers" with a novel brain-computer interface (BCI).
06 Jul 2020
TeslaNow, Elon Musk is selling Tesla-branded 'short shorts'
After selling fancy electric cars, setting up an underground rapid movement system, and renting rocket and space capsule to NASA for manned missions, the maverick Elon Musk is onto selling something absurd - 'short shorts'.
05 Jul 2020
Donald TrumpKanye West 2020? Rapper announces bid for US Presidential elections
American rapper Kanye West has announced his bid for the United States Presidential elections, scheduled to be held in November.
02 Jul 2020
TeslaDespite COVID-19 shutdown, Tesla made over 90,000 deliveries
Despite being hit by the shutdown stemming from the novel coronavirus pandemic, Elon Musk's EV company Tesla managed to deliver more than 90,000 cars in the second quarter of 2020.
18 Jun 2020
MoonSpaceX plans to build floating spaceports for Moon, Mars missions
We all know the ambitions of Elon Musk's SpaceX.
31 May 2020
SpaceXAlong with astronauts, SpaceX launched a 'glittery dinosaur' to ISS
In the wee hours of Sunday, Elon Musk's SpaceX launched astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on the historic #LaunchAmerica mission to the International Space Station.
