Elon Musk

January 7, 2021, 11:26 pm

Tesla CEO Elon Musk overtakes Amazon’s Bezos to become world’s richest person

As electric car company’s stock price soars, CNBC estimates the South African-born magnate’s wealth at $185 billion

By AFP

Silicon Valley (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0/Coolcaesar)

December 20, 2020, 5:42 am

Tech stars quit Silicon Valley as pandemic ushers in shift to remote work

Wildfires, political polarization also blamed for exodus; underlining broader trend, analyst says other countries such as China, Israel could outshine US as innovation hubs

By Glenn Chapman

In this screen grab from video posted by SpaceX, the company's Starship launches for a test flight, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in a remote area of Texas. (SpaceX via AP)

December 10, 2020, 3:52 am

SpaceX launches Starship on highest test flight, crash-lands in fiery explosion

Despite explosion, Elon Musk hails test of rocket intended to take men to Mars as a great success, says they got all the data they needed

By Marcia Dunn

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

November 27, 2020, 8:09 am

Elon Musk now world’s 2nd wealthiest person

Pandemic has allowed the ultra-rich to amass even more wealth as technology companies have gobbled up more market share of the economy

By AFP

The SpaceX Dragon is seen after docking at the International Space Station, November 16, 2020. (NASA TV via AP)

November 17, 2020, 8:47 am

SpaceX capsule with 4 astronauts reaches International Space Station

Regular taxi service to ISS gets underway as Elon Musk’s company delivers crew for full half-year stay in orbit

By AP and TOI staff

A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket with the Crew Dragon capsule is seen during a time exposure as it lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. Four astronauts are beginning a mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

November 16, 2020, 3:26 am

US resumes regular crew flights to space station with successful SpaceX launch

Launch marks first full taxi flight for NASA by private company; Dragon capsule carrying 3 Americans, 1 Japanese astronaut; SpaceX chief Elon Musk missing with suspected COVID

By Marcia Dunn

In this frame grab from NASA TV, the SpaceX capsule splashes down Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020 in the Gulf of Mexico. Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken spent a little over two months on the International Space Station. It will mark the first splashdown in 45 years for NASA astronauts and the first time a private company has ferried people from orbit. (NASA TV via AP)

August 3, 2020, 12:24 am

SpaceX capsule with 2 NASA astronauts make first splashdown in 45 years

Flight by Elon Musk’s company was first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry people to and from orbit, could clear the way for tourist flights from next year

By Marcia Dunn

In this image from video made available by NASA, astronauts Doug Hurley, left, and Bob Behnken prepare for undocking from the International Space Station, aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020. (NASA via AP)

August 2, 2020, 6:56 am

SpaceX astronauts launch back toward Earth for final leg of historic journey

Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, who blasted off toward space station 2 months ago, aim for Sunday afternoon splashdown off Florida coast, a first for manned spaceflight in 45 years

By AP

July 19, 2020, 1:15 am

Twitter says hackers ‘manipulated’ employees to access accounts

‘We’re embarrassed, we’re disappointed, and more than anything, we’re sorry,’ says social media giant after high-profile breach

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-US vice president Joe Biden, in Jerusalem on March 9, 2010. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

July 16, 2020, 3:20 am

Twitter accounts of Netanyahu, Biden, Obama, others hacked in Bitcoin scam

Fake tweets from prominent politicians, tech personalities solicit deposits to anonymous cryptocurrency account; feeds of Apple, Kanye West, Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg also hacked

By Agencies

Screen capture from video of the SpaceX Dragon crew capsule, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken aboard, as it docks with the International Space Station, May 31, 2020. (NASA TV via AP)

May 31, 2020, 6:42 pm

Making history, SpaceX Dragon docks at space station with two-man crew

Elon Musk’s privately engineered manned space flight delivers astronauts to orbiting research center, completing complex hitching of capsule to station automatically

By Marcia Dunn

A SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, lifts off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 30, 2020 (AP Photo/John Raoux)

May 31, 2020, 12:46 am

SpaceX blasts off on historic crewed launch, opening commercial space travel era

Elon Musk’s company becomes first private organization to take humans to orbit, ending nine-year launch drought for NASA since retirement of the space shuttle

By Marcia Dunn

Clouds pass over the SpaceX Falcon 9, with the Crew Dragon spacecraft on top of the rocket, as it sits on Launch Pad 39-A, May 27, 2020, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

May 27, 2020, 11:32 pm

Historic SpaceX launch postponed because of stormy weather

Flight, pushed to Saturday, will be first to send humans into orbit by private company, first launch of astronauts from US soil in nearly a decade

By Marcia Dunn

NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley, left, and Robert Behnken, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A during a dress rehearsal prior to the Demo-2 mission launch on May 23, 2020, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

May 27, 2020, 9:14 pm

2 US astronauts suit up for historic SpaceX launch

Wednesday’s planned flight will be the first time a private company has sent humans into orbit, first launch of astronauts from US soil in nearly a decade

By Marcia Dunn

US President Donald Trump after a meeting with restaurant industry executives about the coronavirus response, in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington, May 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

May 19, 2020, 8:40 am

Trump retweets video by conservative shunned for her support of Holocaust denier

President shares clip of right-wing activist Michelle Malkin complaining conservatives are silenced on social media; Twitter later removes original tweet

By Marcy Oster