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Tesla has launched its own brand of tequila after CEO Elon Musk first proposed the idea two years ago on his Twitter account. According to CNN Business, the company’s liquor brand launched on Thursday, November 5 and the product sold out quickly online following high demand. The drink was only available in certain U.S. states […]

Elon Musk leapfrogged Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Monday to become the world’s third-richest person, with an estimated fortune of $115 billion, according to Bloomberg. While Zuckerberg previously sat higher in the rankings of world billionaires, with an estimated net worth of $111 billion, Musk’s fortune grew a staggering $87.8 billion this year due to […]

Elon Musk took to Twitter to attack a proposal from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders that would place a 60% tax on wealth gained by billionaires during the coronavirus, calling it “socialism.” Sanders responded by reminding the Tesla founder that he’s taken a total of $4.9 billion in “corporate socialism” to prop up his businesses. As […]

Grimes and her partner Elon Musk appeared to get into an argument on social media after the Tesla CEO tweeted a statement saying that “pronouns suck.” As Business Insider reported, within minutes, Grimes replied to his tweet. “I love you but please turn off ur phone or give me a dall [sic.],” she wrote. “I […]

Billionaire Wall Street analyst Chamath Palihapitiya has claimed that Tesla might soon be worth over a trillion dollars, making it one of just six companies ever to read the incredible benchmark, according to CNBC. The claim comes as shares in the company, founded by Elon Musk, have reached new heights, trouncing previous expectations from the […]

Elon Musk made history on Saturday, May 30, after SpaceX successfully launched two NASA astronauts into orbit from Kennedy Space Center at 3:22 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The significant mission marked the first human liftoff from U.S. soil in nearly a decade, reigniting the country’s ambitions in space exploration after NASA announced its final space […]

The saga of Grimes and Elon Musk’s son’s name continues. Now that the couple learned that their son’s original name, X Æ A-12, doesn’t comply with California law, they’ve given him a new name. In a post on Instagram on Sunday, Grimes announced that her son will now go by X Æ A-Xii. The news […]

On Friday, NASA officials gave approval for SpaceX to continue preparations in conjunction with the government’s independent space agency for a historic rocket launch scheduled to take place next week. According to a report by Politico, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are among those expected to be in attendance for the launch […]

Lyndsay Tucker is a 25-year-old college student that works in the Sephora of San Jose, California, but she has the distinction of talking to some of the most influential people in the nation thanks to inheriting the old phone number of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. According to National Public Radio’s report, Tucker has gotten strange […]

Grimes’ mom appears to be unhappy with her daughter’s partner after posting a series of now-deleted tweets blasting “MRA bulls**t on Twitter,” as Page Six reported. Last week, Elon Musk took some heat after posting a tweet telling his 34.4 million followers to “take the red pill,” a reference to the 1999 movie The Matrix […]

The Matrix creator Lilly Wachowski was not happy about Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump referencing her film on Twitter on Sunday afternoon. After Musk tweeted out a message saying “take the red pill” and Trump later responded “taken,” Wachowski took to her own Twitter account to show her displeasure, saying “f*ck both of you.” Fans […]

Elon Musk announced he was going to reopen the Tesla assembly plant in Fremont, California, despite the county’s lockdown policies, daring the local sheriffs to arrest him for doing so. Now, he has a powerful supporter cheering on his efforts after President Donald Trump backed Musk’s message. “California should let Tesla & @elonmusk open the […]

Elon Musk reopened his Tesla factory on Monday, defying the local health department’s orders to remain closed, ABC News reported. Located south of San Francisco, the plant had been deemed “non-essential” and shut down on March 23. “Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. […]

Couples may not always agree on everything, but they should probably agree on how to say their son’s name. For Grimes and Elon Musk, it seems that’s a challenge, as they are having trouble landing on a common pronunciation for their son X Æ A-12’s unique name. When a fan asked the singer how she […]

A California politician is not taking well to Elon Musk’s threat to pull his Tesla company out of the state. After the billionaire tech mogul said this week that he was considering pulling out of California due to the state’s ongoing coronavirus restrictions, state representative Lorena Gonzales responded with a succinct tweet attacking him. “F*ck […]

Elon Musk said he is considering pulling Tesla out of the state of California over the state’s ongoing restrictions to prevent spread of the coronavirus, which has forced the company’s facilities to close through June. The Tesla CEO spoke out on Saturday, taking to Twitter to announce plans for a lawsuit against the Alameda County […]

Elon Musk and Grimes may face a problem with their new son’s name. While they’ve announced they intend to name their son X Æ A-12, TMZ is reporting that California law makes that name illegal. According to a supervisor at the Department of Public Health Vital Records Office in Los Angeles, it is against the […]

Known for his comedic and chaotic four-minute and twenty-second vlogs, YouTuber David Dobrik has continued to grow in popularity in recent months. In his most recent vlog, Dobrik attempted the crazy Flying Tesla Challenge. He was inspired to try the stunt after watching two Instagram stars, josh_ofthe_jungle and nickpasquale1919 show off a number of dangerous […]

In a lengthy CNBC interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Donald Trump praised such American inventors and innovators as Elon Musk and Thomas Edison — but also appeared to say that it was an American who invented the wheel. “We have to protect Thomas Edison and we have to protect […]

Elon Musk’s company, Tesla, has hit a major roadblock in its plans to build a giga-factory in a small German town on the outskirts of Berlin. On Saturday, more than 250 residents protested the plans, claiming that the factory would “steal” available water from locals and wreak havoc on wildlife in the area, according to […]

Technology entrepreneur and Tesla founder Elon Musk recently took to Twitter to reveal his thoughts on his Wikipedia page, which he claims to have read Sunday for the first time in “years.” “Just looked at my wiki for 1st time in years. It’s insane! Btw, can someone please delete ‘investor’. I do basically zero investing,” […]

Elon Musk’s broken car window turned out to be very costly. The Tesla chief took a major hit this week at a demonstration of the company’s new Cybertruck, which the billionaire had billed as indestructible. After describing how the truck’s windows were bullet-proof, a designer tossed some metal balls at the windows, damaging what was […]

Tesla‘s new Cybertruck debuted today. The angular, futuristic vehicle that looks nothing like a truck is getting compared to the DeLorean, the ill-fated ’80s sports car that was prominently featured in the Back to the Future franchise. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, the Tesla Cybertruck, the electric vehicle manufacturer’s entry into the pickup truck […]

Tesla’s new Cybertruck, unveiled Thursday, looks like something out of a Ridley Scott sci-fi dystopia and is finally available for pre-order after years of secrecy and development. According to Forbes, Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla, debuted the vehicle on Thursday to a packed house at the Tesla Design Center in Los Angeles. […]

Tesla is offering a new way for people to get their hands on its rooftop solar panels. The company is making solar power more affordable for the average homeowner with rental plans starting at $50 per month. According to The Verge, Tesla is hoping to save its floundering solar division with panel packages that have […]

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang attacked Donald Trump while appearing at the Iowa State Fair in a series of comments that have quickly gone viral. According to The Hill, the tech entrepreneur said that he was willing to go face-to-face with Trump on just about anything. While speaking with fair attendees, Yang said he’d challenge […]

Tech entrepreneur and Telsa CEO and founder Elon Musk threw his support for Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Saturday, as The Inquisitr reported. In a Twitter video post the same day, Yang revealed the one particular piece of advice Musk provided that at least partly pushed his presidential run. “One thing he said that […]

Tech entrepreneur, engineer and Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk took to Twitter Saturday to reveal that he supports Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang. Musk made the comment in response to American podcaster and political commentator Dan Carlin, who responded to a Twitter post in which Yang expressed his belief in the importance of disagreement […]

Science fiction has been filled with stories of human settlements on Mars for decades. Even storied minds like the late Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have extrapolated on the Martian future, with people happily living on the red planet. However, many scientists have started hitting back on those “pie-in-the-sky” predictions, according to Gizmodo. All scientists […]

Technology billionaire Elon Musk said Tuesday that he hoped to implant internet-connected devices into human brains as early as next year, The Verge reports. Musk claimed the technology would help treat a host of neurological diseases that affect brain function, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, per The Hill. Musk said the company hoped to shift from […]

Claire Boucher, who goes by the stage name Grimes, recently shared a photo on Instagram which appears to be an ad for Stella McCartney’s new collaboration with Adidas. The “We Appreciate Power” songstress shared a very long caption which has gone viral. And it also seems that the caption is so bizarre that people are […]

Pablo Escobar’s brother Roberto says that Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, stole his flamethrower concept, and he’s not happy about it, according to TMZ. Back in 2018, Musk announced and sold a ‘The Boring Company Not a Flamethrower,” — a souped-up propane torch. Fans nabbed the unusual tool up, making the company millions of dollars. Now, […]

A Los Angeles judge declared that billionaire Elon Musk must defend himself in court for a 2018 tweet, in which he insulted a diver working to save Thai schoolboys trapped in an underwater cave, the BBC reports. The trial date is set for October 22. Vern Unsworth, the diver in question who helped rescue the […]

Tesla Inc. founder Elon Musk predicts that robotaxis, or autonomous driverless cars, will be available on U.S. streets next year. Musk, who admitted he can be overly optimistic about some of his predictions, said at an Autonomy Investor Day on Monday that he was confident that Tesla would have over 1 million robotaxis on the […]

Tech guru Elon Musk hinted that computers with the ability to connect with human brains will be “coming soon.” Musk responded to a tweet asking for a status update on Neuralink, a neurotechnology company he founded in 2016, which is reportedly working on such technology. When asked what was going on with the project, the […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk just dropped a surprise rap single honoring the gorilla known as Harambe. Musk tweeted out a link to the song, titled “RIP Harambe,” on Saturday eulogizing the tragically slain primate with a heavily auto-tuned vocal track featuring the Space X executive. Musk released the song under the non-existent rap label Emo […]

As SpaceX and Elon Musk prepare for next week’s tests of its prototype Starship suborbital vehicle — which is currently sitting on a launch pad at SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas, facility — new aerial images of the majestic hopper have just been published ahead of its suborbital hop tests. As Space reports, Musk recently suggested […]

SpaceX has just submitted its Starship spacecraft to a series of tests which have seen its hexagonal heat shields barraged by heavy amounts of intense flames, and Elon Musk has shared a tantalizing video post of this work which was conducted to prepare the Starship for its future deep-space missions. As Space reports, the hexagonal […]

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has been urged by a famous UFO hunter to fly to the moon and recover a crashed UFO. It’s a strange request, but Musk often acts like a magnet for strangeness. The Express reports that a famous UFO-hunter by the name of Scott C. Waring claims he has discovered something unusual […]

No one ever accuses Tesla of not having a sense of humor. The company knows it has the attention of alternative vehicle enthusiasts and their own enthusiastic fanbase in the ongoing run-up to the launch of their much-anticipated Tesla Model Y and they used the buzz to sneak in an amusing Easter egg that was […]

While Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been working hard since 2016 to push out the company’s Model 3 sedan at a super low mass market price tag, after suggesting just last month that this car would finally be here before 2019 was through, Tesla made the surprise announcement on Thursday that the Standard Range Model […]

In what is surely wonderful news for those who would like to one day be early pioneers on Mars, Elon Musk has suggested that he is fairly “confident” that making that leap and moving to Mars may “one day” cost travelers less than $500,000 for a SpaceX ticket, with the even more exciting revelation that […]

One year ago today on February 6, 2018, Elon Musk and SpaceX successfully launched their Falcon Heavy rocket and propelled a Tesla Roadster and its sole occupant, the daring mannequin affectionately known as the Spaceman, into space where the duo has remained to this day on their wild orbit around the sun. As Space reports, […]

Elon Musk and the crew of SpaceX are hard at work at their Boca Chica, Texas, facility, and excitement is already growing over upcoming tests of the company’s Starship Raptor engine. The engine was created especially for trips to Mars, which are right around the corner now. With their formidable new rocket, SpaceX have designed […]

Elon Musk has expressed his desire to host YouTube’s favorite show, Meme Review. The Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO posted an epic tweet on Sunday in which he demanded YouTube “king” Felix Kjellberg, a.k.a. PewDiePie, to let him host the show. The tweet can only be described as pure internet gold and shows a picture […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that the company will be cutting 7 percent of its full-time employees this year. In the company-wide email, Musk also announced that Tesla would end up keeping “only the most critical temps and contractors.” The layoffs are expected to impact roughly 3,000 Tesla employees, according to the Verge. Musk […]

Elon Musk has made the news once again after tweeting a photograph of the DeLorean from the hit film Back to the Future, boasting that one day, the $200,000 Tesla Roadster may be able to fly as well, if customers make sure that they opt for the “SpaceX add-on package.” As the Daily Mail has […]

SpaceX is slimming down its workforce. The Los Angeles Times reports that Elon Musk’s space launch company will be laying off 10 percent of 6,000 person staff. The news comes after the company unveiled plans of ambitious projects last year that will advance the company’s plans to eventually transport human beings to the stars. They […]

Social media posts announcing that famous billionaires, such as Bill Gates, have pledged to give away huge amounts of money to random people tend to be hoaxes. But one such post last week from a Japanese billionaire is very much real – and has broken the record for the most-shared tweet of all time. Yusaku […]

On Monday, Elon Musk and Mayor Ying Yong of Shanghai broke ground on the very first Tesla factory to be built overseas. According to CNBC, the new location will help the electric car company deal with rising costs and avoid the tariffs that have been eating into their profits recently. Previously, all Tesla factories were […]