
We are all forced, at gunpoint, to lavishly subsidize the manufacture and sale of electric cars, which tend to be a boutique product for very rich people. Every step of production and sale is juiced with subsidies. No one is selling electric cars for their actual market price, and even with all that subsidy sugar to help the medicine go down, hardly anyone is interested in buying them. It’s one of the biggest forced transfers of wealth from middle-income taxpayers to rich people ever conceived.
by John Hayward7 Jan 2016, 2:25 PM PST0

Contents: 2015 – A breakthrough year for Artificial Intelligence; The debate about preventing the Singularity; Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change; Proof that the Singularity will occur by 2030
by John J. Xenakis29 Dec 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

The December 21 reusable recovery of a SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has improved the economics of commercial activity in space, but it has fundamentally changed the military balance of power and, perhaps inadvertently, launched the era of space militarization.
by Chriss W. Street25 Dec 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

Elon Musk, the futurist visionary behind SpaceX, is racing a technological clock as he looks to put the first man on Mars within the next decade.
by Nate Church14 Dec 2015, 2:48 PM PST0

Silicon Valley billionaires, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Reid Hoffman announced on Friday that they are planning to help commit $1 billion to an Artificial Intelligence centre in San Francisco. OpenAI, the official name of the project, is said to
by Charlie Nash13 Dec 2015, 9:25 AM PST0

A new study warns that two thirds of Tesla Model S cars will need to have their entire drivetrains replaced before they reach 60,000 miles.
by Chriss W. Street12 Dec 2015, 11:22 AM PST0

The tech elite are teaming up to protect humanity from evil Matrix-like artificial intelligence. Elon Musk and a team of Silicon Valley elite have reportedly pledged more than a billion dollars to construct artificial intelligence that benefits mankind, rather than enslaves it.
by Ferenstein Wire11 Dec 2015, 8:52 PM PST0

Tesla Motors stock wavered on November 20 after the company issued a voluntary worldwide recall to inspect every one of the 90,000 Model S cars the company has ever built.
by Chriss W. Street21 Nov 2015, 10:04 AM PST0

The rumor mill indicates that the 155 acres that Apple quietly acquired near San Jose International Airport are enough for the R&D center for its “Project Titan” self-driving cars.
by Chriss W. Street15 Nov 2015, 4:26 AM PST0

“Does God exist?” is, perhaps, humanity’s oldest philosophical question.
by Scott Pinsker30 Oct 2015, 7:24 AM PST0

Tesla has unveiled a new update, allowing its cars to drive by themselves using radar and ultrasonic sensors and cameras.
by William Bigelow22 Oct 2015, 10:36 AM PST0

Company co-founder Jack Dorsey, recently installed as CEO, has promised “big changes” for Twitter, and “has been vocal about the need to shake things up at the company, as user growth and engagement has stalled and the company’s stock has been battered,” according to Business Insider. Dorsey described the company’s flagging performance as “unacceptable” and promised to “ensure more disciplined execution” in a June conference call.
by John Hayward12 Oct 2015, 6:16 AM PST0

The Tesla Model X SUV was introduced earlier this week to rave reviews for its design touches, including rear “falcon-wing” doors that open upward for seven passengers.
by Chriss W. Street1 Oct 2015, 11:47 AM PST0

As much as global financial concerns are going to hit tech companies harder than other sorts of enterprise, so too will their own lack of ambition. The ugly truth is that Silicon Valley has largely given up trying to fix big problems and has retreated into photo-sharing apps and productivity tools.
by Milo Yiannopoulos24 Aug 2015, 3:50 PM PST0

As fears grow over what might happen if computers gain an intelligence of their own, tax-funded entrepreneur Elon Musk is sinking over $6 million into a research project to study the worst case scenarios.
by Warner Todd Huston1 Jul 2015, 5:33 PM PST0

An unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies and a first-of-its-kind docking port to the International Space Station broke apart Sunday shortly after liftoff. It was a severe blow to NASA, still reeling from previous failed shipments.
by Breitbart News28 Jun 2015, 10:21 AM PST0

The audaciousness of EIon Musk to challenge bone-headed establishment thinking is on maximum display this month as his SpaceX organization helps launch the design competition for a “sub-scale” Hyperloop prototype pod train. Unlike the California High Speed Rail, that no
by Chriss W. Street20 Jun 2015, 3:22 PM PST0

What if your driverless car decides that your life is expendable in order to save a school bus full of children?
by Warner Todd Huston17 Jun 2015, 1:37 PM PST0

Following Tesla Motors, Inc.’s (TSLA-NASDAQ) big award of California tax credits for promising to add 4500 jobs, the all-electric automaker just signed a lease to occupy the cavernous 500,000 square feet Solyndra plant at 901 Page Ave. in Fremont, California.
by Chriss W. Street12 Jun 2015, 9:00 AM PST0

The Silicon Valley Business Journal is reporting that “Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors is on track to win $15 million in new tax breaks as part of the final round of this year’s California Competes tax credit.” According to Governor Brown’s GO-Biz website, tax credits are awarded to businesses that come or stay and grow in California. With much of his $13.3 billion net worth coming from tax subsidies, Musk may celebrate his latest gift of “government cheese” from Reno, where Tesla’s highly-subsidized $5 billion giga-factory is being built.
by Chriss W. Street10 Jun 2015, 9:00 AM PST0

In a national poll, more than 1 in 4 Americans said they would support limits on humans driving cars in the near future, given the fact that robotic self-driving cars could be safer.
by Ferenstein Wire7 Jun 2015, 5:53 PM PST0

If you build it we will come could be the mantra for Los Angeles billionaire mogul Elon Musk.
by Robert Wilde31 May 2015, 9:33 AM PST0

Tech magnate Elon Musk is part of a group of science and technology celebrities—which includes Microsoft’s Bill Gates and physicist Stephen Hawking—who believe the impending development of artificial intelligence poses a threat to human society and perhaps even human survival.
by John Hayward25 May 2015, 6:41 PM PST0

From Business Insider: One of the biggest things that keeps Elon Musk up at night doesn’t have anything to do with Tesla or SpaceX — in fact, it’s a fear that sounds like something from a science fiction film. In
by Breitbart News24 May 2015, 3:36 PM PST0

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk’s Hyperloop transportation system is nearly ready for its first test. The high-speed tube transportation system will soon have its first test track in California, according to Green Car Reports.
by Daniel Nussbaum19 May 2015, 2:20 PM PST0