One thing hasn’t changed as Tesla has crept from high-priced luxury-car maker toward mass-market manufacturer: Elon Musk’s heavy reliance on media buzz to bring attention to his electric cars. Nearly eight
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Tesla has always been an intoxicating place to work: an adrenaline-fuelled, mission-driven boot camp. Some top executives have departed only to return to the unique drama that is working for Elon Musk
Google called off its race to the moon weeks ago when it became clear no private explorer would complete the trip by the 31 March deadline. That won’t stop at least three teams from Israel, Japan and the US, who say their
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod talks to former Nasa deputy chief technologist Jim Adams about everything from the Square Kilometre Array to the search for alien
When Elon Musk’s SpaceX heaved two communications satellites aloft last week, he joined a space race that’s foiled plenty of other dreamers. Billions of dollars have vanished in the quest to provide Internet service from low-earth
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Henry Ford didn’t invent the motor car. The late 1800s saw a flurry of innovation by hundreds of companies battling to deliver on the promise of fast, efficient and reasonably priced mechanical transportation. Ford later came
Late last week, two Silicon Valley powers got into an online scrum over a technology that is neither developing nor likely to take off anytime soon. On his grand tour of Asia, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi won
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a customer payload plus its own broadband demonstration satellites in the company’s first mission since millions tuned in earlier this month for its Falcon Heavy
Elon Musk’s SpaceX moved closer to another orbital frontier as regulators advanced its application to launch a low-orbit constellation of satellites and join a jostling field of operators trying to cash in on