In addition to electric cars, road trips to Mars, and strange Twitter behavior, Elon Musk is also known for a new biotech company called Neuralink, which aims to connect human brains to computers. The company just held a presentation where several execs, including Musk, explained the progress made with its chips that aim to capture …
Among the many buzzy pet projects and aspirations which you sometimes hear tech moguls like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg talk about that fall outside of their company’s core missions is the development of a dystopian-sounding direct link between computers and the human brain. The creepiness factor notwithstanding, they’ll regale audiences and journalists about what …
Elon Musk spoke on the new Clubhouse app on Monday and revealed some interesting things that his various companies are working on. Musk says that his company Neuralink, which is working on building computer/brain interfaces, among other things, has successfully implanted a chip in the brain of a monkey. That monkey, Musk claims, can now …
SpaceX was preparing to launch its Starship prototype on a short “hop” test, but engine trouble halted the test at the last possible second. An issue with the engine triggered an automatic abort, according to SpaceX boss Elon Musk. SpaceX is planning to try the test launch again soon. Between trips to the International Space …
SpaceX boss Elon Musk has been a proponent of Mars colonization for many years now. He has several reasons for wanting to pursue the dream of setting up shop on the Red Planet, and one of the big ones is as a “life insurance policy.” We don’t yet have the technology to send crewed missions …
Microsoft unveiled what it’s touted as one of the fastest supercomputers in the world Tuesday at its annual Build developers conference. It’s an outgrowth of a partnership last year between the computing giant and OpenAI, a startup co-founded by Elon Musk which Microsoft has supported with more than $1 billion. Visit BGR’s homepage for more …
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made another guest appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, this time around attempting to explain some of his recent headscratchers and more bizarre moves of late. Those include the strange baby name he and partner Grimes gave to their new son, as well as Elon’s recent tweet that he’s selling almost …
SpaceX’s Starship program is a very, very big deal for the company. It’s still in its infancy, with test flights not yet reaching Earth orbit, but in the future, we might see Starships taking humans to Mars or even further. With all that in mind, you can understand why every launch of a Starship prototype …
Elon Musk wants SpaceX’s Starship to be the top priority moving forward, according to an email obtained by CNBC. Starship is SpaceX’s next-gen rocket platform designed to carry humans to other worlds, including Mars. Musk says that future versions of Starship will be capable of interstellar travel. SpaceX has had an incredibly busy year. In …
The cryptocurrency Dogecoin was created as a joke in 2013, and as of this January, it was worth less than a penny per coin. By the end of the month, it had hit 5 cents, and in May, it reached a new high of 74 cents. This meteoric rise uncoincidentally coincided with Tesla and SpaceX …
