It’s no secret that entrepreneur and engineer Elon Musk is something of a cultural icon. With CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, founder of The Boring Company, and co-founder of another handful of companies among his many titles, Musk now has one more proverbial feather to stick in his cap—richest man in the world (briefly). Surpassing…
It’s been rough for the stock market in the year of COVID-19. A number of stocks in the hospitality, financial and manufacturing sectors have yet to dig themselves out of the hole and reach their pre-COVID highs. The talk of Wall Street is Tesla, just recently added to the S&P 500 Index, that has far…
The Hoh Tribe in a remote location near Forks, WA has long struggled with access to the internet. According to the Vice Chairman of the Hoh Tribe, Melvinjohn Ashur, their internet speed was “like paddling upriver with a spoon.” That all changed when the tribe was connected to SpaceX, whose Starlink satellite manufacturing is based…
The resurrection of dinosaurs has been a lifelong dream of mine, especially as someone who took part in a fossil dig when I was younger. Plenty of people have told me that we have 5 movies explaining why this is a bad idea. To be fair though, 4 of those movies have no business preaching…
Neuralink, founded by Elon Musk in 2016 to work on innovation in neurological interfacing with technology, recently livestreamed a showcase of their groundbreaking integration concepts via the power of pork. Neural links are nothing new. They’ve been around since 2006, but Musk’s company is working to expand it to new and improved levels. One level…
On August 11th, Tesla announced a 5-for-1 stock split effective on August 31st. What this means is that the value of a Tesla share will divide by 5, while the number of shares multiply by 5. Someone who owns a single share of Tesla right now, valued around $1,500 per share, will instead hold 5…
Mary Rose Corkery A 17-year-old from Tampa, Florida, was arrested Friday for allegedly carrying out the massive Twitter hacking scam on July 15, according to WFLA. Graham Ivan Clark was arrested Friday around 6 a.m. and faces 30 felony charges in the alleged scam, which prosecutors have dubbed the “Bit-Con” hack, according to a press release from…
Elon Musk dropped an economic truth bomb on Joe Rogan’s podcast a couple of months ago. “If you don’t make stuff, there’s no stuff.” Obvious? You’d think so. But, as Musk pointed out, our economic policies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic have ignored that simple truth. The prevailing assumption is that the government can press “pause”…
Andrew Kerr on July 15, 2020 The Twitter accounts for former Vice President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama were compromised Wednesday afternoon by hackers pushing a bitcoin scheme amid a wide-scale attack on the social media platform. “I am giving back to the community,” a now-deleted tweet posted on the presumptive Democratic presidential…
Mary Rose Corkery on July 5, 2020 Kanye West said he’s “running for president” on Saturday. “We must realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States,” West wrote on Twitter Saturday. We must now realize the promise of America…