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☆ Starship's first liftoff toward space created the equivalent of a volcanic eruption in the launchpad, physicist finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementDebris litters the Starship launchpad, with damaged fuel tanks visible in the background. PATRICK T. FALLON / Contributor / Getty Images"What we found was that it's comparable to a volcanic explosion," Metzger told WMFE's Brendan Byrne. Members of the public walk through a debris field around the Starship launchpad at SpaceX's facilities near Boca Chica, Texas. SpaceX plans to launch Starship again this weekend, minus the volcano-like explosionThat first space-bound Starship launch ultimately ended with the rocket itself exploding in mid-air. "I think they've completely solved the problem," Metzger told WMFE.

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☆ Elon Musk's plan to implant chips into people's brains is eerily similar to a 2015 British spy movie featuring an eccentric billionaire played by Samuel L. Jackson
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk's brain chips are eerily similar to the plot of 2015 movie "Kingsman: The Secret Service." In it, Samuel L. Jackson plays an eccentric billionaire who tries to control the world using neural implants. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAdvertisement"Kingsman: The Secret Service," which stars Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, and Taron Egerton, features a similar neural implant as a key plot point.

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☆ Thousands of people are reportedly lining up to have a portion of their skull removed and one of Elon Musk's brain chips implanted
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk's startup received FDA approval to start human trials earlier this year. The brain chip startup aims to implant a device that acts as a "Fitbit in your skull." NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementAdvertisementThousands of people have expressed interest in receiving one of Neuralink's brain implants, according to a recent Bloomberg report from one of Elon Musk's biographers, Ashlee Vance. "They are currently kicking our ass," Musk said after Synchron implanted its first device in a US patient in July 2022.

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☆ See how SpaceX's Starship rocket design has evolved through the years, in photos
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Marianne Guenot | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk is expecting SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket to take to the skies again, months after the ship blew up on its first-ever attempt to reach orbit. SpaceX's Starship stacked atop its Super Heavy booster near Brownsville, Texas. Originally teased under the name Mars Colonial Transporter, Starship's first rocket design was called "Interplanetary Space Transporter" as SpaceX realized its ambitions went beyond transport to Mars. 2019: Starhopper reaches 492 ft in flightSpaceX's Mars Starship prototype "Starhopper" hovers over its launchpad during a test flight in Boca Chica Trevor Mahlmann/ReutersThe first Starship prototype wasn't really a Starship at all. The first full-fledged Starship prototype to really catch some air was called Starship serial no.

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☆ SpaceX's mega-rocket has a 'decent chance' of making orbit on its next flight, Musk said. Last time, Starship blew up the launchpad and exploded in mid-air.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Sonam Sheth | Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk said he thinks Starship has a "decent chance" of reaching orbit on its second test flight. AdvertisementAdvertisementSpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Thursday the company's Starship vehicle has a "decent chance" of making orbit on its second test flight. But it has yet to reach orbit. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Technically, it's a scooch below orbit," Musk said Thursday. Tripathi added that he would consider this second test flight to be a success if two things happen.

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☆ Side-by-side photos show 4 major changes made to SpaceX's Starship rocket system after its first launch ended in an explosion
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Marianne Guenot | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementMore than a thousand changes have been made to the rocket since and it is now "ready to launch" again Musk recently said. SpaceX's enormous Starship mega-rocket is made of two stages: the Starship spaceship and its booster, the Super Heavy booster. The Starship-Super Heavy launch system is made up of two stages. Instead, for Starship's maiden test flight, SpaceX decided to see if they could absorb the force of the flames with a thick concrete launchpad alone. The FAA will still need to review the changes made to the Starship launch system before it can grant a new license.

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☆ SpaceX's giant Starship is 'ready to launch' again, Elon Musk says, after the first attempt left a crater in the launchpad
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Marianne Guenot | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

SpaceX is 'ready to launch' its Starship mega-rocket again, pending FAA approval, Elon Musk said on X. Starship is SpaceX's next flagship rocket, standing taller and more powerful than any previous launch system. The Starship vehicle, stacked atop its Super Heavy booster, stands nearly 400 feet tall. The Starship spacecraft and its Super Heavy booster were launched together for the first time in April. Advertisement Advertisement Watch: Watch Elon Musk unveil his latest plan for conquering MarsElon Musk wants Starship to take humans to Mars.

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☆ Elon Musk says his daughter who ditched his last name 'doesn't want to spend time with me'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk was "pained" by the fallout with his eldest daughter, his biographer wrote in a new book. Musk told Walter Isaacson that his daughter "doesn't want to spend time with me." Musk's daughter legally changed her name in 2022 and said she didn't want to be associated with him. AdvertisementAdvertisement"She went beyond socialism to being a full communist and thinking that anyone rich is evil," Isaacson said Musk told him. The biographer said Musk told him he'd "made many overtures," but "she doesn't want to spend time with me."

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☆ Elon Musk is gearing up to launch his Starship mega-rocket in August. Here are 2 changes SpaceX made to stop it exploding.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

SpaceX is adding changes to Starship's launchpad and rocket ahead of its next launch. SpaceX is now gearing up for a second launch, which CEO Musk has predicted could happen by end of August. Here are two crucial changes the firm has made to its Starship launch system, and why it hopes it'll keep the rocket from failing. Because of this change to the launch, SpaceX had to add a "vented interstage and heat shield" to protect the booster. The CEO is now vying for a second launch window by the end of August, he said in June.

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☆ Elon Musk plans to rebrand Twitter as 'X' — an idea that harkens back to the CEO's early days when he was ousted from PayPal
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk announced Saturday that he plans to rebrand Twitter and change the bird logo to 'X.' Musk previously wanted X to be the name of a banking services site now known as PayPal. Musk said a new "interim" X logo will go live Sunday. Elon Musk in Palo Alto, California, on August 7, 2000. According to Ashlee Vance's biography "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future," almost everyone in the company preferred the name PayPal.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg’s MMA trainer says he's ‘not sure’ the Meta CEO would beat Elon Musk in a cage fight
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk this week challenged Mark Zuckerberg to go head-to-head in a cage fight. "I'm not sure how the fight will play out," Zuckerberg's MMA trainer Khai Wu told Forbes. Mark Zuckerberg's mixed martial arts trainer is far from certain that the Meta CEO would win a fight with Elon Musk. Weighing in on Zuckerberg's planned showdown with the Tesla CEO, Wu told Forbes: "I just go and train. The billionaires this week appeared to agree to go head-to-head after Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cage fight.

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☆ Elon Musk says a cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg 'might actually happen' – and admits it could go badly for him
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk said a cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg "might actually happen." Speaking in a Twitter space, Musk admitted the fight could go badly given his lack of experience. Speculation that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg could actually get in a ring and fight each other just won't go away. Since Musk appeared to jokingly challenge the Meta CEO and amateur jiu-jitsu fighter to a cage fight last week, momentum has gathered pace. "I spend my time according to what is needed and I don't usually have to fight people," Musk said in the interview.

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☆ Musk will train if Las Vegas martial arts cage match takes hold
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Saturday he will start training if the mixed martial arts cage fight he has provoked with fellow billionaire media mogul Mark Zuckerberg takes shape. Twitter owner Musk tweeted on Tuesday he was up for a cage match in Las Vegas with Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta (META.O), who has trained in jiu-jitsu. So if this does happen, I will," Musk said in a talk on Twitter with Ashlee Vance, the author of a book on Musk and the space race. The match "might actually happen" said Musk while attending a birthday party in Europe, adding it was possible that it could go badly if Zuckerberg takes the match seriously. Musk said SpaceX was working on improvements to Starship.

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☆ The value of Elon Musk's SpaceX may rise with new $750 million fundraising effort, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Aaron Mcdade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's SpaceX is reportedly looking to fundraise through a new sale of employee shares. The sale could value SpaceX at $150 billion, according to Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. Reports put the share price in the $80 range as the company looks to raise about $750 million. SpaceX is considering a new fundraising effort through a sale of employee stock shares, which would value the company at about $150 billion. The round of share sales would reportedly put Elon Musk's space exploration company at about $80 or $81 per share.

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☆ Elon Musk once praised a rocket CEO who didn't go to college for beating Jeff Bezos to orbit, new book reveals: 'Bezos has spent a shitload of money, and he hasn't made it'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A new book reveals Elon Musk once praised a rival New Zealand rocket CEO in a 2018 phone call. Musk said it was "impressive" that Rocket Lab launched a rocket into orbit before Blue Origin, per the book. Like SpaceX, Rocket Lab has been able to launch rockets into orbit — something Bezos' Blue Origin company has not yet achieved. In March, Rocket Lab launched its 35th Electron rocket just a week after launching its 34th Electron rocket. Neither Rocket Lab, Blue Origin, nor Musk responded to Insider's requests for comment.

☆ 14 big moments in the history of Elon Musk's SpaceX — from nearly going bankrupt in 2008 to the fiery Starship explosion
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Grace Kay | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk was inspired to start building his own rockets in 2001 after a Russian rocket designer spat on his shoes. Elon Musk at his desk in 2004. At the time, Musk was visiting Russia in order to negotiate a deal to buy space rockets for a future mission to Mars. SpaceX cofounder Jim Cantrell also recalled the incident in a Channel 4 documentary that aired in May and in a biography on Musk by Ashlee Vance, "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future." Sources: Insider, "Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age," "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future."

☆ Elon Musk's office sleeping habits have existed since the early 1990s, according to a book about his first startup
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Per "The Founders," Musk's company rented a "spartan Palo Alto office space," and he would sleep at the office and shower at the nearby YMCA. Soon after taking over Twitter, Musk similarly said he would be sleeping at the office "until the org is fixed." Back at Zip2, Soni describes a "perpetually sleep-deprived" Musk openly berating other executives and colleagues in 1996. Musk's sleeping habits continued at his second company, too, as the company's cofounder Harris Fricker told Soni. In February, Musk said he has worked an average of more than 120 hours a week after taking over Twitter.

☆ Elon Musk has been in several TV shows and movies over the years. See his 11 cameos from 'South Park' to 'Rick and Morty'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk has become a media personality in his own right, from his viral tweets to appearances on a slew of TV shows and movies. Elon Musk has been featured in several TV shows and movies over the years. Musk is close friends with Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, one of Hollywood's most powerful agents and the inspiration for the character of Ari Gold on HBO's "Entourage." The billionaire is also reportedly friends with comedian Nathan Fielder and the creators of "Rick and Morty," to name a few of his Hollywood connections. Sources: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Insider

☆ A 45-year-old biotech CEO may have reduced his biological age by at least 5 years through a rigorous medical program that can cost up to $2 million a year, Bloomberg reported
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bryan Johnson, a biotech founder, aims to have the body of an 18-year-old, Bloomberg reported. He and a team of experts started a program called Project Blueprint to unlock the key to aging. Test results show that Johnson has the heart of a 37-year-old, according to the report. While it's still in its experimental stage and is constantly being tweaked, the health program consists of an intense daily regimen of carefully curated supplements, meals, exercise, and a slew of bodily tests. He exercises daily, with three high-intensity workouts a week, and goes through blood tests, MRIs, and colonoscopies each month, Bloomberg reported.

☆ SpaceX history: 13 of the biggest moments for Elon Musk's 20-year-old company
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Grace Kay | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

☆ The CEO of Elon Musk's Boring Company who reportedly slept at Twitter HQ with his wife and baby once owned a bar called 'Thomas Foolery'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Aaron Holmes | Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk's Boring Company aims to build a network of road tunnels under major cities. Davis reportedly slept at Twitter HQ with his wife and baby after Elon Musk sought his help. Musk also owns The Boring Company, which has built a reputation for offbeat stunts. Before working for Musk, Davis founded a frozen yogurt shop and a bar that accepts bitcoin, among other ventures. Boring Company has faced scrutiny, especially in Chicago and Las Vegas, where it aimed to build its first tunnels.

☆ Musk and Brin: A brief history of the billionaires' friendship leading up to rift caused by an alleged affair
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-24 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Google cofounder Sergey Brin was a longtime friend and investor of Elon Musk. Musk and Brin often spent time sharing ideas with Google cofounder Larry Page, Vice reports. Wall Street Journal reports Musk had an affair with Brin's estranged wife in 2021. Brin, a Tesla investor, provided the struggling company with $500,000 during the 2008 financial crisis, according to WSJ. Brin reportedly acknowledged the gesture but still doesn't speak to Musk regularly, the Journal says.

☆ Former NASA official says a Russian designer famously inspired Elon Musk to launch SpaceX by spitting on his shoes
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-23 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver details how Elon Musk first started SpaceX in a new book. Musk decided to launch the company after he was disrespected by several Russians, per reports. The SpaceX CEO famously decided to launch his own space venture after he was spat on by a Russian engineer in 2001. Garver commented on the incident in "Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age," published June 21. The Co-Founder described the situation similarly in a biography on Musk by Ashlee Vance, "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future."

☆ 'If it blows up, it's cool': The far-out philosophy that explains why Elon Musk won't let a few baby sea turtles stop SpaceX's quest to get to Mars
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-05 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

In the case of Elon Musk v. Charismatic Megafauna, the agency intends to publish its final report in late April. Musk went on: "Either explicitly or implicitly some people seem to think that humans are a blight on the Earth's surface. Musk is talking about existential risk, the idea that something — an asteroid, a rogue artificial intelligence — might kill every human on Earth. And if you assume that future human minds will "mainly be implemented in computational hardware instead of biological neuronal wetware," as Bostrom does, you end up with a mind-boggling 1054 human lives. Musk has made the defense of "future life" his mission.

☆ THE HP ROLLER COASTER: 5 Big Mistakes, 5 Lucky Breaks In A Disastrous Decade
▼ + stars: | 2013-01-11 | by ( Julie Bort | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

HP CEO Meg Whitman AP2012 was full of stock-crushing news for HP, from layoffs to writedowns to its strange mess with Autonomy. AdvertisementAdvertisementA new, in-depth story in Businessweek documents all the missteps that sent the company's shares down 70 percent since August 2010, erasing $68 billion in shareholder equity. But, as Businessweek reporters Ashlee Vance and Aaron Ricadela point out, the company didn't get here in one year. And amid all the errors and missteps, there have been some bright spots—good decisions and fundamental strengths that give hope for a turnaround.

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