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Update: February 27, 8:01 a.m. ET: SpaceX issued a scrub of today’s scheduled launch with roughly two and a half minutes left in the countdown clock. Company officials blamed an ignition system issue for the the delay, specifically ground equipment used for loading the engine ignition fluid. SpaceX is now targeting…

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After completing a static fire test of Starship earlier this month, SpaceX has nowhere else to go but up. A company official says it’s now in a position to perform the first orbital flight test of its much-anticipated megarocket, pending a launch license.

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Billionaire Elon Musk may be clutching his pearls a little tighter as a Delaware judge left serious doubt whether his multi-billion Tesla pay package was done without Musk’s intervention.

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India is down to one Twitter office after CEO Elon Musk surprised employees in two of the three offices when he told them to work from home. The New Delhi and Mumbai offices were affected while the Bengaluru office located in Southern India was permitted to remain open.

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In the wake of a union push that began to pick up steam this week, Tesla Workers United working with the company’s Autopilot function at Tesla’s Buffalo Gigafactory are claiming that they were fired by the Elon Musk-owned company in retaliation

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This past Saturday, ex-astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, criticizing his company for planning to prevent the Ukrainian military from using Starlink to control drone strikes. With typical Muskian bluster, the billionaire said he didn’t want his devices to “enable escalation of the conflict that may…

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Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk said he would finally let the blue bird app fly free under a new CEO, though only after we reach the end of 2023 after he finally manages to “stabilize the organization and just make sure it’s in a financially healthy place and the product road map is clearly laid out.”

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Our worst suspicions over why Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s tweets flooded user feeds on Monday have apparently been confirmed. Twitter engineers purportedly created a special system to increase their boss’ view counts and the reason is just as petty as you can imagine.

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Today, Tesla Autopilot workers in the company’s Gigafactory in Buffalo, New York have officially kicked off the union push with a letter to management, formally announcing their bid to unionize.

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After throwing a hissy fit last week because his tweets weren’t getting enough views, Twitter CEO Elon Musk seems to have finally gotten what he wanted: Musk-filled feeds.

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