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Trulia tech real estate

Lifestyles of the rich and geeky: Trulia pops quick quiz on tech elites and their real estate

You might have to be a tech zillionaire to be able to afford to live in cities like Seattle and… Read More

Image: Elon Musk

Tesla-SolarCity merger takes effect

The $2 billion Tesla-SolarCity merger went into effect today, just four days after Tesla Motors’ shareholders gave their approval. In… Read More

Tesla-SolarCity unveiling by Elon Musk

Tesla shareholders OK SolarCity deal: ‘Your faith will be rewarded,’ Elon Musk says

Tesla’s shareholders overwhelmingly approved a merger with SolarCity today, opening the way for consummating the marriage of the electric-car company… Read More

SpaceX and Space Needle

SpaceX files FCC application for internet access network with 4,425 satellites

SpaceX has laid out further details about a 4,425-satellite communications network that’s expected to provide global broadband internet access, with… Read More

Elon Musk’s OpenAI project taps Microsoft Azure as its main cloud partner

Microsoft’s Azure will be the preferred public-cloud service for running experiments at OpenAI, the $1-billion non-profit initiative from Tesla CEO Elon… Read More

Daedalus crew

Here’s what Donald Trump, NASA and SpaceX need to do to get us to Mars

The “Mars” miniseries premiering on the National Geographic Channel is only the latest in a decades-long string of media projects… Read More

Elon Musk

Elon Musk holds forth on SolarCity, Tesla, SpaceX … and Donald Trump

Today Elon Musk laid out his views on electricity-generating solar roofs, the Tesla-SolarCity merger, SpaceX’s return to flight and artificial intelligence… Read More

SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System liftoff

SpaceX’s Elon Musk geeks out over Mars interplanetary transport plan on Reddit

In the weeks ahead, SpaceX plans to pressure-test a prototype carbon fiber tank on an oceangoing barge, to gauge how well… Read More

Tesla autonomy

Fully autonomous driving? Elon Musk promises Tesla’s cars will make it so

Billionaire Elon Musk doubled down on Tesla Motors’ autonomous driving features today, saying that every vehicle produced from now on… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Microsoft’s AI moonshot, behind the scenes at GeekGirlCon, and more

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we kick things off with a look into Microsoft’s huge new move… Read More

Stephen Colbert

Make Mars Great Again: Stephen Colbert wants to pass the hat to get Donald Trump on an Elon Musk rocket

Add Elon Musk to the list of people who wants to rocket Donald Trump into outer space. At least, according… Read More

Mars spaceship

Reality check: Elon Musk’s Mars plan will cost more, take longer. What else is new?

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – In order to make the figures work for Elon Musk’s plan to put settlers on Mars, SpaceX will… Read More

Podcast

A million people on Mars? Explaining Elon Musk’s bold plan to colonize the Red Planet

Colonies on Mars are no longer restricted to the pages of sci-fi classics and the imagination of ambitious space geeks. These settlements… Read More

Elon Musk in Guadalajara

SpaceX’s Elon Musk makes the big pitch for his decades-long plan to colonize Mars

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made some ambitious sales pitches in his career, but today’s big reveal about his… Read More

Raptor rocket engine firing

SpaceX’s Elon Musk tweets sneak peeks at interplanetary transport system for Mars

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – In advance of this week’s big reveal, SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, is dropping hints about the scale… Read More

Tesla Autopilot

Why Tesla’s Autopilot will rely on radar (and the cloud) to make driving safer

Tesla car owners are getting an upgrade to their Autopilot semi-autonomous driving software, but this won’t be your standard software upgrade:… Read More

Falcon Heavy and Red Dragon

Carbon fiber report whips up interest in SpaceX’s plans for a colony on Mars

Is SpaceX planning to buy billions of dollars’ worth of carbon fiber for future Mars-bound spaceships? The answer’s up in… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 landing

SpaceX launches JCSAT-16 satellite, then lands Falcon 9 rocket at sea

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a satellite for a Japanese communication company tonight, and then made a bull’s-eye landing on a floating… Read More

Solar panel on roof

Elon Musk touts power-generating solar roofs as future SolarCity product

The bad news is that SolarCity, the power-generating company that has Elon Musk as its chairman, is losing money. The… Read More

Brian Bjelde

SpaceX’s HR guy addresses tales of overworked engineers and more on Reddit

SpaceX’s engineers are pursuing the high-flying goal of getting people to Mars, and by some accounts, the workload can lead… Read More

Tesla and Gigafactory

Tesla and SolarCity boards approve Elon Musk’s $2.6 billion merger deal

The boards of directors for Tesla and SolarCity, two companies that have billionaire Elon Musk as a top executive, have… Read More

Elon Musk’s new Tesla master plan: Self-driving shared cars, a Semi and personal energy utilities

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has just shared his once-secret master plan for the electric-car company, which he now casts as… Read More

Elon Musk and Tesla Model 3

Elon Musk and Tesla make $2.8 billion offer for his other company, SolarCity

Tesla Motors, the electric vehicle and battery company headed by Elon Musk, has made a $2.8 billion bid to acquire… Read More

Mars Colonial Transporter

SpaceX’s Elon Musk teases ‘dangerous’ plan to colonize Mars starting in 2024

SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, is providing increasingly detailed previews of his plan to send colonists to Mars starting in… Read More

SpaceX Falcon on ship

Woohoo! SpaceX Falcon 9 booster makes nighttime landing at sea after launching JCSAT-14 satellite

SpaceX increased the degree of difficulty for tonight’s Falcon 9 rocket landing attempt at sea after launching a Japanese satellite… Read More

SpaceX Falcon's return

SpaceX Falcon booster comes full circle to Cape Canaveral after landing at sea

Eleven days after a thrilling landing at sea, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket booster is coming back to the company’s space-age garage… Read More

Tesla Model 3

Elon Musk’s Tesla Model 3 update: 325,000 cars ordered, and your bike will fit

In the week since Tesla Motors unveiled its Model 3 electric car at the not-so-ludicrous price of $35,000, would-be owners… Read More

‘Here we go!’ Buyers throng to sign up for Elon Musk’s Tesla Model 3 electric car

BELLEVUE, Wash. – As the clock counted down to the big reveal for the Tesla Model 3 electric sedan, would-be… Read More

Podcast

AI2 CEO Oren Etzioni envisions an artificial intelligence ‘utopia’

Imagine a future where life’s most boring or dangerous tasks are handled by machines. Time otherwise spent commuting, scheduling appointments, sifting… Read More

ULA exec resigns after controversial comments about Blue Origin, SpaceX and U.S. government

The VP of Engineering at United Launch Alliance (ULA), Brett Tobey, has resigned after comments he made in a Tuesday… Read More

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