‘Most powerful rocket ever’: SpaceX’s Starship cleared for launch April 16, 2023 A super rocket that Elon Musk hopes will one day carry people to Mars and the moon has been cleared for its first orbital launch. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted SpaceX a licence to launch the super heavy-lift launch vehicle, comprised of a rocket, dubbed Super Heavy, and spacecraft, dubbed Starship, into orbit [...]
Graham Linehan, AKA Glinner, banned from Twitter… Again April 16, 2023 Graham Linehan, the creator of Father Ted now best known for his opposition to trans rights, has been banned from Twitter… Again. Linehan’s latest ban was for joking about killing protestors at a controversial women’s rights activist event in Belfast called Let Women Speak, although he had already received warnings from the platform about his [...]
Elon Musk working on AI tool to compete with ChatGPT April 16, 2023 Elon Musk is reportedly planning to launch an AI tool to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The billionaire founder of SpaceX and Tesla is gathering a team of AI researchers and has acquired the graphics processing units needed to produce the AI tool, the Financial Times reported. Musk is also in talks with SpaceX and Tesla investors [...]
Twitter: Elon Musk launches new long-form platform allowing 10,000 characters April 14, 2023 Twitter has launched a new platform to support writers move from micro-blogging to longer-form pieces, with posts of 10,000 characters permitted. The Elon Musk-owned social media giant announced the launch of Twitter Write on Friday, offering “improvements to the writing and reading experience” for users. “Starting today, Twitter now supports Tweets up to 10,000 characters [...]
Five things we learned from Elon Musk’s interview with the BBC April 12, 2023 Elon Musk plans to revoke a disputed “government funded media” label Twitter attributed to the BBC, claims advertisers are returning to the platform and admitted that he sometimes sleeps in the office. The billionaire chief executive — who is also at the head of electric car maker, Tesla, and spacecraft manufacturer, SpaceX — made the [...]
Explainer: Elon Musk enters – and exits – another BBC row April 12, 2023 What are two things that never grow old? Rows over BBC funding and Elon Musk’s bizarre decisions about Twitter. Now the two have come together, sparking a conversation that reaches from North America to the UK. It all started a couple of days ago when a Twitter badge appeared on the BBC Twitter page describing [...]
Elon Musk gives BBC rare tell-all interview after Twitter labelled broadcaster ‘government-funded media’ April 12, 2023 Twitter owner Elon Musk has said the social media site will update the BBC’s “government-funded media” tag after the broadcaster objected to the label. The BBC contacted Twitter last week after the designation was attached to the main @BBC account. In an interview with the BBC, Mr Musk said he has the “utmost respect” for [...]
Elon Musk drops DogeCoin logo, restores Twitter bird, plus the Blue Tick latest April 11, 2023 Twitter has restored its bird logo after Elon Musk, one of the world’s funniest richest men, had temporarily switched it for the meme dog best known as the logo of cryptocurrency DogeCoin. Internet sluths went into overdrive trying to work out the reason. Was it a hack? A disgruntled employee? No, it was of course [...]
Easter Reads: the best in our opinion pages on politics and tech April 7, 2023 Rishi Sunak has presented himself as a competent manager, the man who could start the return of the “grown-ups” in Westminster and turn the fortunes of his party around. He’s had some quick successes – like the Windsor Framework – but now he’ll be tasked with disclosing what his long-term plan for an inspiring and [...]
Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest man, but who are Britain’s biggest billionaires? April 7, 2023 Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest person according to the Forbes World’s Billionaires List 2023. The declining value of Tesla shares and his expensive acquisition of Twitter have let Bernard Arnault, head of luxury conglomerate LVMH, take his place. Arnault is the first ever Frenchman to be the world’s richest person. It was [...]