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Quote of the day by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: "If you go back say, 300 years, the things we take for granted today, you'd be burned at stake for" — echoes of science fiction

Elon Musk has been at the center of innovation for the majority of the 21st century, from his early days as co-founder of X.com (which later became PayPal through a merger) to his stewardship of Tesla and SpaceX. As he revealed nearly 15 years ago, his drive stems from another famous quotation that we associate with the science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke.

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A lot has changed in the nearly 15 years since Elon Musk delivered his keynote at the 188th Caltech Commencement ceremony. As the keynote speaker, Musk centered his speech on the ideas that drove him and took him to where he was then.

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Judge Approves $1.5 Million SEC-Musk Settlement Over Twitter Investment

The opinion says whether it's fair is ‘for our citizenry to decide at the ballot box.’ In 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission under former chair Gary Gensler brought a case against Elon Musk regarding his acquisition of Twitter. The regulator questioned Musk's 11-day delay

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Smart glasses are having a privacy reckoning, and Meta is caught in the middle

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A tritium ‘nuclear battery’ just reached orbit for the first time

The nuclear age has quietly reached commercial spaceflight. City Labs, a Miami firm, has launched BOHR, which it calls the world’s first commercial nuclear-powered satellite and the first nuclear CubeSat. The craft is about the size of a softball. It flew on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare on 7

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Venus Aerospace raises $91M to build its ‘detonation’ rocket engine

A Texas startup has raised $91m to build a rocket engine most of the industry once wrote off as too hard. Venus Aerospace announced a $91m Series B to develop its Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine, or RDRE. Mercury Fund led the round. The backers read like a defence roll-call. Lockheed

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