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Police use new maneuver to stop Tesla car on autopilot after driver falls asleep at wheel

Officers with the California Highway Patrol invented a new maneuver to stop a Tesla Model S vehicle after its driver… Read More

‘Insane Mode’: A crash course in Elon Musk, Tesla, and the future of the electric car

Are you Elon Musk-ed out yet? If not, you might want to give Insane Mode: How Elon Musk’s Tesla Sparked… Read More

Tech Moves: Amplero founder tapped to lead Zillow AI efforts; new Tesla chair replaces Elon Musk

Olly Downs, who previously founded AI-powered marketing startup Amplero, has joined Zillow Group as the company’s new senior director of… Read More

Elon Musk in Guadalajara

In Recode Q&A, Elon Musk talks up ‘Blade Runner’ truck, Space Force and Jeff Bezos

Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is really psyched about the electric pickup truck he’s got on… Read More

Elon Musk and Tesla Model 3

After all the drama, Tesla posts ‘historic’ quarterly report with profit and added cash

Tesla shares jumped more than 10 percent in after-hours trading today after the controversial electric-car company posted a surprisingly positive… Read More

Tesla Model 3

Tesla rebounds after Elon Musk settles SEC lawsuit (and after big Model 3 push)

Tesla’s share price jumped today as dramatically as it fell on Friday, thanks largely to this weekend’s settlement of the… Read More

Court docs: Elon Musk to resign as Tesla chairman, pay $20M, and submit tweets for internal review

Elon Musk has agreed to step down as Tesla’s chairman for three years but will remain CEO of the electric… Read More

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Tesla’s Elon Musk signals a battle with SEC over fraud charges, and stock price sinks

Tesla’s billionaire CEO and chairman, Elon Musk, is calling the Securities and Exchange Commission’s fraud claims against him “unjustified” after… Read More

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SEC charges Tesla CEO Elon Musk with securities fraud over ‘misleading’ tweets

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Tesla’s billionaire CEO and chairman, Elon Musk, with securities fraud over a series… Read More

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Tesla stock declines after report of criminal probe into Elon Musk’s ‘funding secured’ comment

Tesla shares fell by as much as 6.5 percent today after Bloomberg News reported that the electric-car company was the… Read More

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Bummer, dude: Tesla stock drops after Elon Musk smokes weed on talk show and executives leave

Tesla share prices took a hit amounting to as much as 10 percent today, after billionaire CEO Elon Musk took… Read More

Elon Musk and Amy Nelson

When CEOs cry: The Riveter’s Amy Nelson and Elon Musk weigh in on business stress

After Tesla CEO Elon Musk got emotional during a market-moving interview this month, Amy Nelson, CEO and founder of The Riveter,… Read More

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Go private? Never mind: Elon Musk says Tesla will remain a public company

After more than two weeks of discussions, Tesla CEO Elon Musk says feedback from shareholders and experts has convinced him… Read More

Musk and Brownlee

A low-cost Tesla car? Elon Musk talks about tech (without turmoil) on YouTube

On the heels of Elon Musk’s angst-filled, market-moving interview with The New York Times, YouTube techie Marques Brownlee offered up… Read More

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Tesla stock slumps after Elon Musk admits he’s having most difficult year of his career

When Tesla CEO Elon Musk chokes up, Tesla’s stock price gets depressed as well. The link between public perceptions of… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: Galaxy Note 9 hands-on review

The smartphone of the moment is Samsung’s new high-end Note 9, the super-powered competitor to phones like Apple’s iPhone X.… Read More

TLDR: Inside Horizon Air’s stolen plane, Saudi Arabia wants Elon Musk to take Tesla private, Russell Wilson nerds out on real estate

Today’s featured stories Inside the stolen passenger plane: ‘I played video games before, so I know what I’m doing, a… Read More

Elon Musk, Semi and Roadster

Elon Musk names Saudis as principal funders for Tesla stock privatization plan

When Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he had “funding secured” for a plan to take the company private, he was… Read More

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Oh, wow, man! Elon Musk’s tweets about taking Tesla private spark a stock spike

Tesla’s stock shot up sharply today after the company’s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk, tweeted that he was considering taking Tesla… Read More

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Despite loss, Tesla’s second-quarter report boosts stock (and Elon Musk mellows out)

Tesla reported a larger loss per share than expected in the second quarter, but there was more revenue and less… Read More

TLDR: Microsoft vs. Slack, high-tech Nike store, Elon Musk wants to help Flint

Today’s featured stories Microsoft unveils free version of Teams productivity tool, upping the ante against rival Slack ‘Not like Amazon… Read More

Elon Musk, Semi and Roadster

Elon Musk announces 9 percent job cut at Tesla in ‘difficult’ drive for profitability

Just days after promising he’d make Tesla profitable within months, CEO Elon Musk announced today that 9 percent of the… Read More

TLDR: Elon Musk gets emotional at Tesla’s shareholder meeting, Microsoft’s underwater data center, Amazon’s $200 Echo Look

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check… Read More

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Tesla turns back challenges at annual meeting, and Elon Musk bares his soul

Tesla shareholders at today’s annual meeting swatted down challenges to billionaire CEO Elon Musk, who laid out an admittedly optimistic… Read More

Starman game

Control Elon Musk’s SpaceX ‘Starman’ in quest to blow up Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos in video game

It’s the Friday before a three-day weekend, and your head is probably already in the clouds, so here’s something to… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: Mysterious new smartphone from camera maker Red and getting hyped for the Tesla Model 3

The Geared Up Giveaway is back! We’re giving Geared Up subscribers the chance to win an Oculus Go headset. See… Read More

Elon Musk

Elon Musk berates media critics and vows to create ‘Pravda’ news rating website

Elon Musk’s Tesla electric-car and power company has been getting some bad press lately, and today the tech billionaire pushed… Read More

Elon Musk and Tesla

Tesla stock goes through twists and turns as analysts focus on Model 3 car outlook

Tesla’s share price took a weird turn today after the company reported its first-quarter financial results and billionaire CEO Elon… Read More

Elon Musk, "bankwupt."

Elon Musk turns Tesla’s troubles into April Fools’ joke — but flamethrowers are real

Between Model S recalls and Model 3 production snags, Tesla has been having a hard time lately — but not as… Read More

Elon Musk axes Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX (after finding out they’re there)

Facebook suffered another blow today: Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, had those two companies’ official pages… Read More

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