Elon Musk has pledged to settle Mars. This book offers a reality check | CNN

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The promise of starting life anew on Mars may appear alluring, even feasible, as the climate crisis intensifies and space and rocket technology advances.

But the reality would be dreadful, according to one book that argues that Elon Musk’s intention to settle the red planet within the next 30 years is doomed to […]
Elon Musk has pledged to settle Mars. This book offers a reality check | CNN

Jeff Bezos denies Tesla stock story and shares a laugh with Elon Musk – Teslarati

Jeff Bezos has officially denied the story that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was told regarding the former Amazon CEO’s warning to sell Tesla and SpaceX stock due to a potential Kamala Harris presidency.
Bezos and Musk appeared to bury the hatchet and share a laugh on social media platform X.
Earlier today, we reported that Musk had heard Bezos was warning people to sell their Tesla and SpaceX shares because Donald Trump was feared to be losing the U.S. Presidential race.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk makes […]
Jeff Bezos denies Tesla stock story and shares a laugh with Elon Musk – Teslarati

Florida man accused of posing as Elon Musk, defrauding elderly woman of $250K

Jeffrey Arthur Moynihan Jr., 56, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with grand theft. (Bradenton Police Department)
A Florida man has been arrested after impersonating tech billionaire Elon Musk in a bid to scam an elderly woman out of at least a quarter of a million dollars, according to police.
Jeffrey Arthur Moynihan Jr. was arrested at his Bradenton home Tuesday night and charged with grand theft. 
While reportedly operating under the guise of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, the […]
Florida man accused of posing as Elon Musk, defrauding elderly woman of $250K

Tesla's path in China clears as Musk courts both Trump and Xi – The Guardian

Billionaire CEO is well connected in the US and China, something that could smooth the road ahead for the electric vehicle maker amid a looming tariff war
If it pays to have friends in high places, few among us can claim to be better placed than Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and one of the only people to have cosy relationships with both Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. His commercial and political connections to both may prove pivotal as the feud between the US and China plays out over the […]
Tesla's path in China clears as Musk courts both Trump and Xi – The Guardian

What We Know About Elon Musk's 'Department Of Government Efficiency' – Forbes

Elon Musk’s role in the upcoming Trump administration is growing clearer after president-elect Donald Trump tapped him to lead the “Department Of Government Efficiency,” a position in which Musk will work closely with a controversial member of Congress as he lays out which could be the first targets of his cost-cutting agenda—including NPR and Planned Parenthood.
Elon Musk attends a House Republicans meeting Wednesday.
Musk, alongside fellow billionaire and former GOP presidential […]
What We Know About Elon Musk's 'Department Of Government Efficiency' – Forbes

Elon Musk attacks Mass. policies after migrant arrests | WBUR News

State and national leaders are taking aim at some Massachusetts officials amid the roiling debate over immigration and potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump.
Elon Musk, a close Trump ally who’s been tapped to help the incoming administration, posted Wednesday on his social media platform X about the arrests of three unauthorized migrants in Massachusetts who were convicted or charged with sex crimes against children.
In his comments about the arrests, Musk wrote “Why […]
Elon Musk attacks Mass. policies after migrant arrests | WBUR News

TIME Magazine Shares Elon Musk's To-Do List, He Responds – NDTV

Billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday responded to his “to-do list” featured on the cover of TIME magazine and said it was not his checklist.
Musk, the owner of social media platform X (formerly Twitter), said he was “trying to make life multiplanetary to maximize the potential lifespan of consciousness”.
The cover headline of TIME magazine’s December edition read “Citizen Musk: What’s next on his to-do list?” and featured a picture of the 53-year-old tech billionaire alongside a checklist that […]
TIME Magazine Shares Elon Musk's To-Do List, He Responds – NDTV

Elon Musk impersonator accused of stealing up to $600K from woman using … – FOX 13 Tampa Bay

FOX 13’s Kim Kuizon reports on a Bradenton man pretending to be billionaire Elon Musk on Facebook who is facing charges alleging he stole as much as $600,000 from a woman he befriended on the social network.
BRADENTON, Fla. – A man pretending to be billionaire Elon Musk on Facebook is facing charges, accused of stealing as much as $600,000 from a woman he befriended on the social network, the Bradenton Police Department said.
"She really thought she was friends with him, and she’d […]
Elon Musk impersonator accused of stealing up to $600K from woman using … – FOX 13 Tampa Bay

Grimes Says Elon Musk Has Become "Unrecognizable" – Futurism

Claire "Grimes" Boucher is getting personal on Elon Musk's "everything" app as she opens up about how the right-wing billionaire has affected her and her art.
The Canadian-born artist and mother to three of Musk's ever-growing litter of children suggested in a lengthy post on X-formerly-Twitter that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO is no longer the man she fell in love with.
Boucher wrote that among the life experiences going into her next project, "detaching from the […]
Grimes Says Elon Musk Has Become "Unrecognizable" – Futurism

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk feud over Trump election prediction: '100% not true'

Jeff Bezos is pushing back against Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claim the Amazon founder predicted President-elect Trump would lose the 2024 presidential election.
“Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X in the early hours of Thursday morning. 
“Well, then, I stand corrected,” […]
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk feud over Trump election prediction: '100% not true'