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[Link] CYBER: Taking Elon Musk Seriously

Read: 23/11/2022 www.vice.com

We have to talk about Elon Musk. It’s fun to make fun of him, and whatever he’s doing at Twitter certainly looks like the weird flailing of a man who doesn’t know how to run a company. But let’s take Musk seriously for an hour or so. He is the richest man in the world.

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[Link] Elon Musk fails in bid to delay trial over terminated Twitter deal

Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com

Elon Musk has failed in a bid to delay a trial over his termination of a $44bn (£38bn) deal to buy Twitter. The social media company is suing Musk over his decision to walk away from the transaction and is demanding that he complete the deal on the agreed terms.

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[Link] Tesla asks judge to pause suit alleging ‘rampant racism’ against Black workers

Read: 19/4/2022 www.theguardian.com

Tesla has asked a California judge to pause a lawsuit against the company alleging widespread racial discrimination at its flagship assembly plant.

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[Link] Elon Musk Dares UAW to Organize Tesla Factory, Says He Would “Do Nothing to Stop Them”

Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com

Last night, like many other nights, Elon Musk was tweeting. In this case, he was tweeting to Gene Simmons of Kiss about the size and workforce of Tesla’s California plant.

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[Link] Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is an Absolute Disaster, Former Employees Say

Read: 2/2/2022 futurism.com

Trouble is still brewing at Neuralink. Despite co-founder Elon Musk’s insistence that the brain-computer interface startup will be headed to human trials later this year, many experts aren’t so sure. 

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[Link] Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Have Completely Lost It on Twitter

Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com

Bezos, the Amazon founder whose net worth is around $200 billion, implied that he would personally throw actor Leonardo DiCaprio off a cliff in a tweet.

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[Link] Elon Musk Tweets an Ancient Chinese Poem. Here’s What It Means.

Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com

The world’s richest man, with $335 billion in wealth and caught up in Twitter spats, now wants some peace, at least according to an 1,800-year-old Chinese poem he just shared.

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[Link] Uber Wants In On All That Positive Hertz-Tesla Press

Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com

On Tuesday, Hertz announced it is buying 100,000 Teslas as part of a massive push into electric vehicles. This is a smart move by Hertz, because renting electric vehicles, especially in the U.S., is currently very difficult.

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[Link] Tesla Drivers Say They Can Easily Cheat Tesla's Safety Score

Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com

Data from when something bad happens can be erased, and the score itself can be reset by Moveable explores the future of transportation, infrastructure, energy, and cities.

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[Link] Tesla ordered to pay $137M to Black former worker subjected to racist workplace

Read: 10/10/2021 arstechnica.com

Tesla owes Owen Diaz $137 million after a jury found that the Black former worker was subjected to racial abuse that the electric vehicle company insufficiently addressed during his tenure.

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[Link] Tesla on Autopilot slammed into police cars despite flashing lights, lawsuit says

Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com

Tesla has been sued by five Texas police officers who were injured when a Tesla Model X in Autopilot mode crashed into police vehicles that were stopped and had their flashing lights turned on. The officers also sued the owner of a restaurant accused of overserving alcohol to the X's driver.

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[Link] Tesla’s Megapack Battery Burned For Days In Grid Storage Fire

Read: 15/8/2021 hackaday.com

Lithium rechargeable batteries have been heralded for their high-density energy storage, enabling all manner of technologies to come to fruition. From drones to practical electric cars to large-scale grid storage, the applications are endless.

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[Link] Move over, space. Tech billionaires have a new utopian boondoggle: the ‘metaverse’

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Look at all of our tech billionaires trying to leave the world to evade responsibility for their malevolent influence on it. Anything to avoid being confronted by the workers they exploit or the victims of the ethnic and religious clashes facilitated by their platforms.

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[Link] A Robot To Top Up Your Tesla

Read: 2/7/2021 hackaday.com

The convenience of just plugging in your car in the evening and not going into a gas station is great as long as you remember to do the plugging. You really don’t want to get caught with an empty battery while you’re in a rush.

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