Tag: Elon Musk

SpaceX Starship SN11 Rocket Fails to Land Safely After Test Launch in Texas: SpaceX

An uncrewed SpaceX Starship prototype rocket failed to land safely on Tuesday after a test launch from Boca Chica, Texas, and engineers were investigating, SpaceX said. “We do appear to have lost all the data from the vehicle,” SpaceX engineer John Insprucker said in a webcast video of the rocket’s flight test. “We’re going to…


NASA to Test Rocket Engines That Could Eventually Send Humans to the Moon

NASA on Thursday will ignite the engines on a rocket that Boeing built to eventually launch Artemis missions to the moon after a previous test in January was cut short. NASA plans to conduct the engine test during a two-hour window that starts at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) at its Stennis Space Center in…


NTD Business Full Broadcast (Mar. 12)

Historic unemployment but small businesses apparently can’t find workers. NTD talks to the National Federation of Independent Business about the situation. Big Tech is in the spotlight again. Journalists testified at a house hearing today, about how social media platforms are taking advantage of their dominance in the news industry. Lithium supply low as electric…


Tesla Loses More Than $244 Billion in a Month as Rally Fizzles

Shares of Tesla Inc. fell for a fifth consecutive session on Monday, caught in a tech-led selloff that has wiped more than $244 billion off the company’s market value over the last month. High-flying tech stocks, which powered the market’s rebound from the pandemic lows in March last year, have been hit by a one-two…


Bitcoin and Ethereum Prices ‘Seem High,’ Says Musk

Billionaire CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday the price of bitcoin and ethereum seemed high, at a time when the cryptocurrencies have hit record highs, with bitcoin crossing the $1 trillion market-capitalization threshold. The chief executive of Tesla Inc, whose recent tweets have fueled the digital-currency rally, made the remark on Twitter while replying to…


NTD Business Full Broadcast (Feb. 8)

Bitcoin surges on Monday thanks to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Could this be the turn for it to be widely accepted? Treasury secretary Janet Yellen thinks Biden’s massive stimulus plan will end unemployment. Lance Roberts, chief strategist at Real Investment Advice thinks differently. Is canceling student debt a good idea? NTD takes a look at how…


Robinhood CEO Tells Elon Musk There Was No ‘Shadiness’ in Halting GameStop Trading

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev defended the app’s decision to halt trading of GameStop stocks during last week’s trading turmoil, telling Tesla CEO Elon Musk during a webcast on Monday there was no “shadiness” involved and pushing back against what he referred to as “conspiracy theories.” Musk grilled Tenev during an episode of “The Good Time Show”…


Billionaire Musk Says He Is ‘Off Twitter for a While’ Again

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, whose candid tweets about certain companies have sent their shares soaring in the recent weeks, said on Tuesday he was taking another break from Twitter. “Off Twitter for a while,” Musk tweeted to his 44.8 million followers on the platform in the early hours. He had tweeted the exact same message…


Justice Department Probes SpaceX After Hiring Discrimination Complaint

The Department of Justice is probing Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX over whether the company discriminates against non-U.S. citizens in its hiring, according to court documents filed on Thursday. The Justice Department’s Immigrant and Employee Rights division received a complaint of employment discrimination from a non-U.S. citizen, who alleged that SpaceX discriminated against him based…


Elon Musk: Big Techs Are ‘De Facto Arbiter of Free Speech’

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, indicated on Monday that Big Tech is now the “de facto arbiter of free speech,” referring to their recent move to ban President Donald Trump. “A lot of people are going to be super unhappy with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech,”…