At this point, we’re about ready to toss our “2021 bingo cards” out the window. After the year (and change) that we’ve had, we didn’t think anything could surprise us, but “dinosaur spotted in Florida” definitely comes close. Although if dinosaurs were going to start making a comeback, Florida is the place we’d expect it […]
Enlarge (credit: peng song / Getty) Dogecoin, a blockchain-based digital currency named for a meme about an excitable canine, has seen its price rise by a factor of five over the last week. The price spike has made it one of the world’s 10 most valuable cryptocurrencies, with a market capitalization of $45 billion. Understanding […]
Enlarge On Thursday, one of Elon Musk’s companies, Neuralink, posted a video showing a monkey playing Pong using nothing but a brain implant connected wirelessly with the computer hosting the game. While it’s a fantastic display of the technology, most of the individual pieces of this feat have been done before—in some cases, over a […]
Enlarge / Then-future Technoking Elon Musk enjoying some cannabis on Joe Rogan’s podcast. (credit: Joe Rogan) Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now Tesla’s Technoking, the company said in an official filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Tesla Chief Financial Officer Zach Kirkhorn is now “Master of Coin.” The two men will retain their previous […]
Enlarge / YouTuber Brandon M captured this drone footage of his Tesla steering toward a parked car using the FSD beta software. “Oh Jeeeesus,” he said as he grabbed the steering wheel. (credit: Brandon M) The transparency site Plainsite recently published a pair of letters Tesla wrote to the California Department of Motor Vehicles in […]
A sign reads “Gambit Construction Entrance” at a construction site outside Angleton, Texas, on March 4, 2021. [credit: Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty Images ] Tesla is best known as an electric car company, but the firm also has a thriving business in battery storage—including utility-scale battery installations to support the electric grid. Bloomberg reports that […]
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