SpaceX’s Elon Musk turns the talk from Donald Trump to reaching Mars by 2025 SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, has had to bat down all sorts of reports about political associations over the past… Read More
MIT leads in first round of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop contest, but UW is in the race The Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the top rating in the design phase of a SpaceX-sponsored contest to develop levitating… Read More
SpaceX’s Elon Musk wants to go into space by 2021 and start Mars missions by 2025 SpaceX founder Elon Musk says he has his heart set on going into space himself, perhaps in the next four… Read More
Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson ribs space billionaires amid Blue Origin buzz Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture may have done another flight test, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX is making… Read More
Hoverboard meets Hyperloop: Arx Pax is finding buyers for magnetic levitation tech The company that brought you a real-life hoverboard from “Back in the Future” wants to levitate you in the Hyperloop… Read More
SpaceX rocket launches satellite, but tips over during sea landing attempt Less than a month after SpaceX’s first successful rocket landing, billionaire Elon Musk’s company tried to do it again today –… Read More
Twitter truce: Jeff Bezos takes the high road, offers kudos to Elon Musk’s SpaceX Rocket launches can sometimes turn into flame wars, as shown by last year’s Twitter tug of war between space-minded billionaires Jeff… Read More
Billionaire Space Club pits Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos vs. Richard Branson vs. Paul Allen and more When Jeff Bezos welcomed SpaceX to the rocket landing “club” last week, it set off a round of twittering over… Read More
Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos: Watch this hilarious animated recap of their great space race History was made earlier this week when Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket, and then successfully returned it… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Alan Boyle’s guide to the year in space, and what’s next for the universe in 2016 It was a big year in space: Historic rocket launches; revelations from distant planets; an unprecedented glimpse of the surface of Pluto; evidence… Read More
Elon Musk explains why a carbon tax is as necessary as garbage collection fees Policymakers have been debating – and dismissing – the idea of putting a tax on carbon emissions for more than a decade,… Read More
More than 120 teams picked for SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s Hyperloop contest More than 120 student engineering teams, including a group from the University of Washington, have been chosen for a Hyperloop… Read More
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and others commit $1B to stop AI from taking over the world While flying cars and (real) hoverboards may not be coming any time soon, there’s a lot of effort and money… Read More
Season’s readings: 12 gift books for geeks In this age of e-readers, there are still occasions when it’s nice to have a book printed on actual paper – like holiday giving, for… Read More
SpaceX’s Elon Musk gets in the Thanksgiving spirit on ‘The Big Bang Theory’ You wouldn’t think Elon Musk was a warm and fuzzy guy, based on this year’s biography of the hard-driving CEO… Read More
Tesla’s Gigafactory to be second largest plant in world after Boeing Fast Company got an exclusive look at Tesla’s new Gigafactory in Nevada — and let’s just say they were impressed.… Read More
Musk silences audience with his ‘nuclear sun on Mars’ theory at SolarCity event The Tesla Model X, a super solar panel, silencing a room of reporters with his nuclear sun theory … what a… Read More
Falcon Wing doors and a Bioweapon Defense Mode, Tesla’s Model X looks like a wicked fun ride In case you didn’t catch Tesla’s big reveal of its much-anticipated Model X last night, it’s pretty amazing. Elon Musk… Read More
Elon Musk says that Teslas running over 600 miles on a single charge, self-driving models right around the corner Elon Musk sat down for an interview in Denmark on how sustainable transport will change the future and revealed a… Read More
Tesla to unleash its Model X on the world next week The waiting is the hardest part…and the wait is almost over for some lucky drivers. Tesla announced that its Model… Read More
Elon Musk to Hyperloop industry: ‘It’s really not that hard’ Elon Musk has a message for those working on developing a Hyperloop. “It’s really not that hard.” The Tesla and… Read More
Computer crashes and Elon Musk, it’s been a wild first week for Stephen Colbert on ‘The Late Show’ Stephen Colbert took over what is arguably the most coveted spot in late-night television this week — but not without… Read More
Could Elon Musk and Sergey Brin be funding a permanent Burning Man colony? This week, artists, musicians, techies and others are flocking to Black Rock Desert in Nevada for Burning Man, that festival… Read More
Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ opening week lineup features Elon Musk Stephen Colbert’s opening week of The Late Show features a killer lineup of Hollywood “It” stars like George Clooney, Amy… Read More
Elon Musk’s Hyperloop dreams getting closer to reality, groundbreaking set for 2016 Elon Musk’s dream of putting people into a tube and propelling them at speeds up to 800 mph is one… Read More
Tesla just posted a video of that creepy metal snake charger for its Model S A while back, Tesla’s Elon Musk tweeted that the company was working on chargers — basically robotic snakes — that… Read More
Hawking, Musk and Wozniak sign letter to ban autonomous weapons, prevent global AI arms race If you’re thinking about posting any questions to Stephen Hawking’s Reddit AMA today, perhaps the latest letter from the Future of… Read More
Podcast Stephen Hawking searches for aliens, and Elon Musk explains the SpaceX explosion We’ve been thrilled to have longtime space and science reporter Alan Boyle covering two big stories for GeekWire today: Stephen Hawking’s… Read More
SpaceX’s Elon Musk traces Falcon 9 rocket failure to busted strut The unexpected breakdown of a tank strut apparently caused last month’s failure of a Falcon 9 rocket launch to the… Read More
Nikola Tesla predicted smartphones in 1926 like a boss Dang, did he go there? Yep. According to a quote found by Big Think, Nikola Tesla basically describes the modern-day… Read More
