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Elon Musk
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Mar. 23, 2018
Elon Musk Deletes Facebook Pages for SpaceX and Tesla
“What’s Facebook?”
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 20, 2018
13 Reasons to Believe Aliens Are Real
How seriously should you take those recent reports of UFOs? Ask the Pentagon. Or read this primer for the SETI-curious.
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Mar. 13, 2018
Nobody Knows Why Elon Musk Has Been Hiring Staffers From the Onion
The SpaceX and Tesla founder apparently wants to get into comedy.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Feb. 7, 2018
Elon Musk’s Tesla Is Floating Through Space Right Now
The car overshot the Mars orbit and is now headed deeper into space.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Feb. 6, 2018
Elon Musk’s Big Rocket Goes Boom (in a Good Way)
The Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful rocket, had a successful launch at the Kennedy Space Center.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Jan. 29, 2018
Please Don’t Spend $500 on One of Elon Musk’s Flamethrowers
Musk has made millions in the last few days selling flamethrowers.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Nov. 15, 2017
Elon Musk Would Like to Avoid the Steve Jobs Comparisons
He hates turtlenecks.
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Brian Feldman
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Nov. 2, 2017
Elon Musk Goes Full-on
Game of Thrones
, Yells ‘Shame’ at Journalists
Musk apparently wasn’t pleased with journalists who reported on layoffs at Tesla.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Sept. 29, 2017
Sorry, Elon Musk, City-to-City Rocket Travel Is a Terrible Idea
Being in a rocket is not exactly pleasant.
By
Paris Martineau
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July 21, 2017
Elon Musk’s Greatest Accomplishment Is His Superspeed Tunnel to Press Coverage
Musk is a good executive. But he’s a world-class carnival barker.
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Ethan Chiel
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July 20, 2017
Elon Musk Has ‘Verbal Approval’ for an East Coast Hyperloop, Whatever That Means
He’s got “verbal government approval.”
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Brian Feldman
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July 10, 2017
Elon Musk Finally Showed the World a Tesla Model 3
Musk tweeted pictures of the car early Monday morning.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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July 6, 2017
Female Tesla Employee Calls Factory a ‘Predator Zone’
According to a new report, 20 women spoke about their experiences with sexual harassment at Tesla during a town-hall meeting.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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June 1, 2017
Elon Musk Finally Quits Trump’s Advisory Council Over Climate Agreement
This issue was apparently the final straw for Musk, who remained with Trump’s council amid the travel ban.
By
Madison Malone Kircher
May 31, 2017
Elon Musk Threatens to Quit Advising White House If Trump Ditches Paris Deal
The SpaceX and Tesla CEO has joined scores of other businesspeople speaking out in favor of the agreement.
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Adam K. Raymond
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May 5, 2017
Elon Musk’s Horniness Causes Tesla Branding Problems
In trying to get
sex
, he caused a lot of confusion.
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Brian Feldman
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Mar. 27, 2017
Elon Musk Founds Neural-Lace Company to Link Our Brains to Computers
The SpaceX and Tesla CEO is reportedly founding another company.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Mar. 27, 2017
Elon Musk Weighs in on the Inevitability of Sex Robots and Roombas Taking Over
Some new insights about the SpaceX and Tesla founder from a
Vanity Fair
profile.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Feb. 21, 2017
The Magical Rationalism of Elon Musk and the Prophets of AI
When austere and inflexible rationalism leads into a grand and methodically reasoned absurdity.
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Mark O’Connell
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Feb. 13, 2017
Elon Musk Says We Need ‘Merger’ With Machines, So Get Ready to Biohack Your Bod
Can’t wait to be a robot.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Feb. 3, 2017
Elon Musk Defends Trump Advisory Role
The Tesla magnate thinks he can change Trump’s mind.
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Brian Feldman
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Jan. 3, 2017
Elon Musk Finally Knows What Made His Rocket Explode
SpaceX is planning to go ahead with a different rocket launch later this month.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Oct. 18, 2016
The Kink in Elon Musk’s Hyperloop
The dream of zipping from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 35 minutes has run into a few speed bumps.
By
Benjamin Wallace
Oct. 5, 2016
The Elon Musk Women-of-Twitter Starter Pack
From tech, to comedy, to Cher.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Oct. 4, 2016
Leonardo DiCaprio Wants to Hop on Elon Musk’s Rocket Ship to Mars
The actor subtly mentioned his space-travel plans on a panel with Barack Obama this week.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Sept. 27, 2016
Elon Musk: If You Want to Move to Mars, Be Prepared to Die
The SpaceX CEO laid out his plans for creating a self-sustaining society on Mars.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Sept. 9, 2016
Elon Musk Still Doesn’t Know What Made His Rocket Go Boom
The SpaceX founder is asking anybody with video of the incident to send it to the company.
By
Madison Malone Kircher
July 25, 2016
Elon Musk Has Spoken: Tesla Is Coming for Uber
Elon Musk just released his second “master plan” for Tesla Motors, and it’s not good news for Uber.
By
Christine Nguyen
July 21, 2016
Elon Musk’s ‘Master Plan’ to Build Cars That Make You Money
Driving is going to be a thing of the past.
By
Madison Malone Kircher
July 5, 2016
Elon Musk: A Lesson in Never Tweeting
Or, emailing, as it were.
By
Madison Malone Kircher
June 21, 2016
Elon Musk Says Not to Use Your $70,000 Tesla As a Boat, Even Though You Can
Sadly, the Model S isn’t a two-for-one deal. It’s just a car.
By
Madison Malone Kircher
June 2, 2016
Elon Musk Is Pretty Chill About the Fact That We’re All Sims
Sure, why not.
By
Brian Feldman
May 11, 2016
The Ambitious Hyperloop Project Just Passed a Huge Test
Blast off.
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Christine Nguyen
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Matt Johnston
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Feb. 3, 2016
Tech Dudes Get Fully Mad Online Over Future Car
The event started two hours late, and there was no food.
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Brian Feldman
Dec. 22, 2015
SpaceX Lands a Rocket for the First Time Ever
Imagine the sound of everyone in America cheering at the end of
Independence Day
simultaneously, but nerdier.
By
Jaime Fuller
Sept. 29, 2015
How Much Better a Parent Will You Be If You Buy a New Tesla SUV?
Plug into your greener self, just in time for soccer season!
By
Ben Ellman
burning for you
Aug. 30, 2015
Is Burning Man on the Cusp of Becoming a Permanent Utopian Community?
Yes, it is, say the organization’s leaders.
By
Nellie Bowles
Oct. 9, 2014
Tesla’s New Model D Is Not a Self-Driving Car
Still has a funny name, though.
By
Anna Silman
Mar. 20, 2014
Elon Musk’s Got Beef: A Time Line of the Tesla Billionaire’s Greatest Feuds
Not even George Clooney is spared.
By
Adam Raymond
white men with money
Aug. 13, 2013
Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Is a Political Manifesto, Not Just a Tech Trick
He’s saying, “We can do the government’s job better than it can.”
By
Kevin Roose
odd future
Aug. 12, 2013
Elon Musk’s Nonexistent Hyperloop Sounds Pretty Cool
It’s a pneumatic tube, but for people.
By
Kevin Roose
men of science
Feb. 22, 2013
Elon Musk Avoids Tesla Talk on
Jimmy Kimmel
The Twitter topic of choice did not come up.
By
Adam Martin
and
Caroline Shin
media
Feb. 15, 2013
New York
Times
Reporter Unimpressed by Tesla’s Model S Test Drive Data
He insists he didn’t intentionally bomb the test.
By
Adam Martin
Feb. 14, 2013
Elon Musk, New York
Times
Not Letting Tesla Test Drive Go
The company claims its logs show the reporter never fully ran out of energy.
By
Joe Coscarelli
the future
Feb. 11, 2013
New York
Times
Not Sorry for Sinking Tesla Stock With Bad Review
CEO Elon Musk called the article “fake.”
By
Joe Coscarelli
the final frontier
Dec. 8, 2010
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s the First Private Spaceship Launched Into Orbit
One small step for private spaceships. One big leap for Elon Musk’s dream of colonizing Mars.
By
Nitasha Tiku
the unneediest cases
Aug. 6, 2010
You Should Feel Really Bad for Elon Musk
The poster child of the poor not-poor.
By
Nitasha Tiku