Category: Elon Musk

Tesla to Work With Global Regulators on Data Security: Musk

SHANGHAI—Electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc. will work with global regulators to ensure data security, Chief Executive Elon Musk told an industry event in China on Friday. Tesla, which assembles vehicles for the Chinese market in Shanghai, has been under scrutiny in China this year over its storage and handling of customer data. Cars are being…


Starlink’s Internet Will Be 40 Percent Faster Than Fiber Optics: Elon Musk

By Entrepreneur Staff Interested in Elon Musk’s internet? Much has been said about Starlink, the satellite internet service that the tycoon who owns Tesla and SpaceX will soon market in different countries. Recently, the billionaire said through his Twitter account that this service will be about 40 percent faster than fiber and a shorter path, because…


Canada’s Next PM Should Lead by ‘First-Principles’ Method

Commentary We are conspicuously short of guarantees in a world struggling to recover from the pandemic. It is with fingers crossed that global leaders have adopted economic and health measures to curb the spread of COVID and stave off financial collapse. Each country has its own hurdles to recovery, Canada among them. With a critical…


Mystery of Space Inspired New Zealand Rocket Man’s Journey to Nasdaq

WELLINGTON—New Zealand entrepreneur Peter Beck said his space firm Rocket Lab was the result of a lifelong quest for signs of life outside earth, as the startup hit a new milestone with a Nasdaq listing on Thursday. The small satellite launch firm, often compared to Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk’s SpaceX, listed on the Nasdaq…


Musk Says Tesla’s Self-Driving Software Update ‘Not Great’

Tesla Inc’s Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday said that the electric-car maker was working on improving the much-awaited update to its self-driving software “as fast as possible.” The billionaire entrepreneur tweeted that the Full Self-Driving Beta version 9.2 is “actually not great imo [in my opinion], but Autopilot/AI team is rallying to improve…


Elon Musk Says Tesla’s Self-Driving Software Update ‘Not Great’

Tesla Inc’s Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday said that the electric-car maker was working on improving the much-awaited update to its self-driving software “as fast as possible.” The billionaire entrepreneur tweeted that the Full Self-Driving Beta version 9.2 is “actually not great imo [in my opinion], but Autopilot/AI team is rallying to improve…


Elon Musk Teams up With Netflix to Stream SpaceX Space Mission in ‘Near Real Time’

By Entrepreneur Staff September 15, 2021 is the scheduled date for the launch of the Inspiration4 mission, the first to send a ship occupied only by civilians into space. The space travel aboard a rocket from SpaceX, Elon Musk’s aerospace company, will be broadcast on Netflix in “near real time.” This Thursday, the streaming platform announced the launch…


NTD Business Full Broadcast (Aug. 20)

Elon Musk unveils plans for a humanoid robot that can screw bolts and get groceries. But he didn’t give a release date. Beijing passes one of the strictest data protection laws. But experts say it’s not to protect users’ data. Instead, they say, the regime has geopolitical goals. And one investment guru says retail investors are left…


Elon Musk’s Satellites Beam Internet Into Remote Chilean Fishing Hamlet

SOTOMO, Chile—After half an hour’s windswept journey on foot and by boat through a craggy forested estuary to the school he attends in remote southern Chile, Diego Guerrero can finally access the internet. His school is located in the hamlet of Sotomo, around 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of the capital Santiago in the region…


Blue Origin Sues US Government Over SpaceX Lunar Lander Contract

WASHINGTON—Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin sued the U.S government over NASA’s decision to award a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Blue Origin said its lawsuit filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on Friday is “an attempt to remedy the flaws in the acquisition process found in NASA’s Human Landing System.”…