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Elon Musk’s tunneling firm The Boring Company has announced an upcoming open house event to hire employees for its operations in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it is currently building out its first underground transit loop. The Boring Company is holding an open house event in Las Vegas on Friday, February 21, in efforts to hire software and operations engineers, supply chain specialists and project developers, as detailed in a post on X over the weekend. The company says it’s looking for “exceptional” talent, which will be a part of the team’s plans to rapidly scale the Vegas Loop, the Musk-led…
HELSINKI — A Pakistan-developed rover will fly on China’s Chang’e-8 moon lander mission in 2028, following an agreement between respective agencies.The China National Space Administration (CNSA) and Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) signed a Memorandum of Understanding Feb. 5 allowing Pakistan’s first rover to fly on Chang’e-8. An agreement in principle had been announced late last year and was formally finalized during Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s visit to China last week.The rover will have a mass of around 35 kilograms and carry science payloads for studying lunar soil composition, radiation levels, plasma properties and testing new technologies…
The Boring Company (TBC) will switch its state of incorporation to Nevada by March 2023. The tunnel boring company is the second Elon Musk-led company to announce a switch in its state of incorporation this past week. Like most Elon Musk-led companies, including Tesla, the Boring Company was previously incorporated in Delaware. Over the weekend, Neuralink switched its state of incorporation from Delaware to Nevada. The Boring Company’s switch to a Nevada incorporation seems strategic. The tunneling company’s biggest project to date is in Las Vegas. TBC is building an extensive loop across Sin City called the Vegas Loop. The Boring Company…
My name is Godspower Owie, and I was born and brought up in Edo State, Nigeria. I grew up with my three siblings who have always been my idols and mentors, helping me to grow and understand the way of life. My parents are literally the backbone of my story. They’ve always supported me in good and bad times and never for once left my side whenever I feel lost in this world. Honestly, having such amazing parents makes you feel safe and secure, and I won’t trade them for anything else in this world. I was exposed to the…
The White House unveiled its AI “bill of rights” which is a baby step toward what Tesla CEO, Elon Musk has been suggesting for quite some time. It’s a baby step because it only offers a set of voluntary guidelines that companies developing or deploying AI can follow to better protect users. It doesn’t set any new restrictions or protections around the use of AI. In 2020, Elon Musk tweeted that all organizations developing advanced AI should be regulated including Tesla. Elon Musk is well known for sharing his thoughts about the downside of AI. In 2014 he said that…
President Donald Trump arrives in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Jan. 30, 2025 in Washington, DC.Oliver Contreras | Afp | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump likely won’t do away with a landmark process that allows Medicare to negotiate drug prices with manufacturers, even as he moves to erase Joe Biden’s other historic policy accomplishments. But Trump will likely make some changes to those price talks, and it may not require help from Congress. “Trump is looking to nibble around the edges of the law,” said Matthew Kupferberg, a partner in Frier Levitt’s Life Sciences Group, adding that the…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that a “Tesla/SpaceX Hyperloop pusher pod” has bolted down SpaceX’s Hyperloop test track at 355 km/h (220 mph), shattering the previously held Hyperloop pod top speed record of 202 mph set over the weekend. Musk said in an Instagram post that the Tesla pod could soon reach a top speed of 500 km/h — or half the speed of sound — after “a few tweaks.” The Tesla/SpaceX Hyperloop pusher pod is used to help propel student Hyperloop pods for SpaceX’s Hyperloop competition. Some of the pods don’t have electric motors used for acceleration, so the pusher…
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader Elon Musk slammed podcast hosts and frequent CNN “experts” Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway via X Saturday, claiming the pair are “cruel, mean and deceitful human beings” who are “threatening” young DOGE professionals.Tech journalist Kara Swisher and NYU professor Scott Galloway, who host the podcast “Pivot,” said in a recent episode they want to see Democratic governors arrest DOGE employees, claiming the team is attempting a coup.While acknowledging DOGE has the authority to conduct actions ordered by President Donald Trump, Swisher said she didn’t like that the team included many young professionals, whom she…
Australia has banned DeepSeek from all government devices over concerns that the Chinese artificial intelligence startup poses security risks, the government said on Tuesday.The Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs issued a mandatory direction for all government entities to “prevent the use or installation of DeepSeek products, applications and web services and where found remove all existing instances of DeepSeek products, applications and web services from all Australian Government systems and devices,” the statement said.Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said DeepSeek posed an “unacceptable risk” to government technology and the immediate ban was “to protect Australia’s national security and…
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