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  • Elon Musk ‘Emphasizes’ That the Hertz Deal Has Not Been Signed

    Elon Musk ‘Emphasizes’ That the Hertz Deal Has Not Been Signed

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    Elon Musk said Tesla Inc. hasn’t yet signed a contract with Hertz Global Holdings Inc., despite the car rental company last week announcing a record order for 100,000 Model 3 sedans for $4.2 billion. Musk was replying to a tweet from an account named Tesla Silicon Valley Club, which showed a chart of Tesla’s rising…

  • Clubhouse CEO Says the Once-Hot Startup Grew ‘Way Too Fast’

    Clubhouse CEO Says the Once-Hot Startup Grew ‘Way Too Fast’

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    Clubhouse, the audio-only app designed to be a virtual conference hall, generated heavy buzz during the peak of the pandemic and received a $4 billion valuation earlier this year. In the months since then, that excitement seems to have cooled. The red-hot start may have been a drawback, Clubhouse Chief Executive Officer Paul Davison said…

  • New White House Website Contact Form: State Your Pronouns

    New White House Website Contact Form: State Your Pronouns

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    Now that Joe Biden has been inaugurated as president, the White House website contact form wants you to list something in addition to your name, address, phone, and email address: your pronouns. The @WhiteHouse website contact form now asks for your pronouns. pic.twitter.com/W5S36efo1d — GLAAD (@glaad) January 20, 2021 That’s not the only change the…

  • World’s Richest People Are Now $813 Billion Wealthier Despite the Pandemic

    World’s Richest People Are Now $813 Billion Wealthier Despite the Pandemic

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    The huge boost to the fortunes of technology and health-care billionaires during the coronavirus pandemic may be the beginning of a more permanent trend. The Covid-19 shock could act as a catalyst to spur increased opportunities for those who offer digital or other tech solutions, while the wealth of those in older industries may in…

  • Clinton-Era Economist Accuses Musk Of Shorting Tesla Workers, Cites Stock Performance; Musk Responds

    Clinton-Era Economist Accuses Musk Of Shorting Tesla Workers, Cites Stock Performance; Musk Responds

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    Tesla CEO Elon Musk exchanged jabs using economist Robert Reich, the former secretary of labor under President Bill Clintonand after the left-leaning scientist accused him of shorting his employees because of modern-day robber baron. “Tesla forced all employees to take a 10 percent pay cut out of mid-April till July. In exactly the identical interval,…

  • Twitter Says Hackers Targeted 130 Accounts in Cyber-Attack

    Twitter Says Hackers Targeted 130 Accounts in Cyber-Attack

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    Twitter Inc. showed hackers targeted only 130 accounts during the cyber-attack this week which jeopardized a number of the planet ’s most identifiable individuals, despite no passwords were stolen. The U.S. company said the still-unknown perpetrators had obtained control of a subset of those accounts and were able to send tweets. Twitter has blocked info…

  • SpaceX’s First Crewed Launch Was Scrubbed. Here’s the Next Possible Launch Window

    SpaceX’s First Crewed Launch Was Scrubbed. Here’s the Next Possible Launch Window

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    (Cape Canaveral, Fla.) — The launch of a SpaceX rocket ship with two NASA astronauts on a history-making flight into orbit has been called off with 16 minutes to go in the countdown because of the danger of lightning. Liftoff is rescheduled for Saturday. The spacecraft was set to blast off Wednesday afternoon for the…