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Billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared a video on Twitter of the giant Starship and its steering engines, a sign production may be back on track.

Elon Musk Shares Video of Starship Steering Its Mighty Engines

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The ousted CEO of a SpaceX copycat — and the man who gave Elon Musk his first rocketry books — is being sued for embezzlement.

Elon Musk’s Mentor Accused of “Brazen” Embezzlement

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk tweeted a meme mocking NFT lovers this week, just after saying he'd use Doge Coin and after a previous attack against DAO users.

Elon Musk Mocks NFTs as Sign of Mental Illness

By Lonnie Lee Hood

"I came to the US with no money and graduated with over $100k in debt, despite scholarships and working 2 jobs while at school," Musk wrote.

Elon Musk Moans About His Student Loan Debt

By Noor Al-Sibai

On Tuesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk raged at Senator Elizabeth Warren after she posted a tweet calling on the billionaire to "actually pay taxes."

Furious at the Concept of Paying Taxes, Elon Musk Lashes Out at Elizabeth Warren

By Tony Ho Tran

Dogecoin prices spiked on Tuesday after Elon Musk announced that Tesla would be accepting the crypto in their merch store.

Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Accept Dogecoin for Merch, Crypto Prices Spikes

By Tony Ho Tran

A sneaker company known for photoshopping a "cybershoe" onto Elon Musk has been purchased by Nike because, apparently, nothing matters anymore.

Nike Buys NFT Company that Made the Elon Musk “Cybersneaker”

By Noor Al-Sibai

"SpaceX is starting a program to take CO2 out of atmosphere & turn it into rocket fuel," CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Monday. Please join if interested."

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is Going to Start Sucking CO2 Out of the Air and Turning It Into Rocket Fuel

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been named Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2021 for his "dreams of Mars as he brestrides Earth."

Elon Musk Is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2021

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk likes to envision a highly automated world in which everybody can go about their way and do as they please.

Elon Musk Says That Politically, He’s a “Utopian Anarchist”

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO and meme thief Elon Musk tweeted last night that he was considering quitting his jobs to become a full-time influencer.

Elon Musk Says He’s Thinking of Quitting SpaceX and Tesla to Become an “Influencer”

By Tony Ho Tran

US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg butted back at Tesla CEO Elon Musk's criticisms of the Build Back Better Act.

Elon Musk Now Feuding with Checks Notes Pete Buttigieg

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially sold off his last remaining home for a cool $30 million. That means his only official abode is a small $50,000 prefab rental.

Elon Musk Just Sold His Final Home to Live in a Small Prefab Box

By Victor Tangermann

During an interview this week, Elon Musk warned that letting people live longer lives by coming up with new technologies may actually be a really bad idea.

Elon Musk Says That Immortality Tech Would Be Very Dangerous

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk apparently doesn't think drugs are cool anymore.

Elon Musk Hates Drugs Now, Apparently

By Noor Al-Sibai

When Elon Musk is not warning us of an imminent nuclear Armageddon, he has often brought up another favorite talking point: declining birth rates.

Elon Musk Says “Civilization Is Going to Crumble” Unless People Have More Children

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk seems to have admitted that he's not positive his company's forthcoming Starship is going to work.

Elon Musk Admits That He’s Not Sure Starship Will Even Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that Neuralink, a neurotechnology company that he co-founded, plans to put brain chips in humans next year.

Elon Musk Says He Wants to Put Brain Chips in Humans Next Year

By Tony Ho Tran

Nineteen Tesla engineers publicized concerns that Tesla's Autopilot features aren't safe, and that CEO Elon Musk has been overpromising the cars' abilities.

Tesla Engineers Say Elon Musk Misled the Public About Autopilot’s Safety

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A Harvard astronmer corrected Tesla CEO Elon Musk after the billionaire incorrectly tweeted his Tesla Roadster was orbiting Mars in space.

Harvard Professor Roasts Elon Musk For Dumb Space Mistake

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Singer Courtney Love beefed with Elon Musk, tweeting he should pay his fair share of taxes and mentioning weird group emails.

Courtney Love Is Threatening Elon Musk With Mysterious “Emails” for Some Reason

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Tesla CEO tweeted a meme portraying Web3 and DAo lovers as weird, crypto evangelicals pitching the concept to urinal neighbors. It crashed markets.

Elon Musk Posts Meme Mocking Crypto Fans, Then Crypto Crashes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tesla CEO Elon Musk spilled the beans on a couple more details about the company's upcoming Cybertruck. It will be able to drive diagonally "like a crab."

Elon Musk Says Cybertruck Will Be Able to “Drive Diagonally Like a Crab”

By Victor Tangermann

The billionaire was spotted after landing in Miami sporting a hairdo that can only be described as "terminally divorced."

Elon Musk Got a Strange Haircut and We Gotta Say, “Yikes”

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk seemed to take another shot at President Joe Biden early Thursday morning via Twitter — and added a trademark man-childish joke while doing so.

Elon Musk Proposes Setting an Age Limit on US Politicians

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk offered a brief and terse response when asked on Twitter about the company's bankruptcy conerns surrounding its Raptor engine.

Elon Musk Tersely Addresses SpaceX Bankruptcy Leak

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reveled that some of the company's internet-beaming Starlink satellites had to swerve out of the way of space debris.

Elon Musk Says Starlink Satellites Had to Swerve Out of the Way of Debris

By Victor Tangermann

It looks like Elon Musk is placing the burden of SpaceX's imminent bankruptcy squarely on the shoulders of his employees.

Elon Musk Forced Employees to Work Over Holiday Weekend Amid SpaceX Bankruptcy “Disaster”

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a leaked email from CEO Elon Musk, he said that the lack of progress towards its Raptor engines puts SpaceX at a "genuine risk of bankruptcy."

In Leaked Email, Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is Facing Bankruptcy

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has to dig deep to keep the spirits up for over a million people who preordered a Cybertruck over a year ago.

Elon Musk Says Cybertruck Will Be an “Insane Technology Bandwagon”

By Victor Tangermann

Luckily, we at Futurism are forced to pay attention to Elon Musk for a living — and we've got you covered this Thanksgiving.

How to Talk to Your Family About Elon Musk

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk took a stance against cryptocurrency exchanges today, agreeing with Twitter users that if you don't have the keys, it's "not your crypto."

Elon Musk Encourages People to Ditch Crypto Exchanges Like Binance

By Victor Tangermann

"If JPM doesn’t withdraw their lawsuit, I will give them a one star review on Yelp," Tesla CEO Elon Musk told The Wall Street Journal.

Elon Musk Threatens Bank With “One Star Review on Yelp” Unless They Drop Lawsuit

By Victor Tangermann

In an email, CEO Elon Musk warned that any manager who doesn't execute his directions will be "asked to resign immediately."

In Leaked Email, Elon Musk Issues Interesting Warning to Tesla Managers

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Says “At Least” Half His Tweets are Made on Toilet

Elon Musk Says “At Least” Half His Tweets are Made on Toilet

By Noor Al-Sibai

"Don’t want to brag but... I’m the best at humility," Musk tweeted today. To his credit, the billionaire hasn't shied away from admitting when he was wrong.

Elon Musk Brags That He Is the “Best at Humility”

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk warned of climate change, comet strikes, and dropping birth rates — not to mention, in his words, "good ol' nuclear Armageddon."

Elon Musk: We Have to Get to Mars Because of “Nuclear Armageddon” on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk made an eyebrow raising omission on Wednesday and implied that the first orbital Starship may very well explode on the launchpad.

Elon Musk Concedes That First Orbital Starship Launch May Explode

By Tony Ho Tran

The international space community was in shock when Russia tested an anti-satellite missile. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has yet to issue a statement.

Everyone’s Condemned Russia Blowing Up a Satellite… Except Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

David Beasley, the director of the WFP, called Tesla CEO Elon Musk's bluff, providing him with a detailed plan to save 42 million people from hunger.

UN Calls Elon Musk’s Bluff, Providing Detailed Plan to Prevent World Hunger

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk apparently cannot stop tweeting about Bernie Sanders -- and this time, the meme allegations include something about ketamine.

Elon Musk Can’t Stop Rageposting About Bernie Sanders

By Noor Al-Sibai

Jeff Bezos thinks the Earth will be like a protected national park in the future and become a galactic tourist attraction.

Jeff Bezos Says Most People Won’t Be Able to Live on Earth

By Tony Ho Tran

The impossible might have happened: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk might have actually gone too far for some of his fans.

Elon Musk Fans Are Furious at Him for Being Mean to Bernie Sanders

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk took to Twitter to throw some cold water on the rival carmaker Rivian's enormous $116 billion valuation on Thursday.

Elon Musk Is Beefing With Another Electric Carmaker Again

By Tony Ho Tran

According to new financial filings, Elon Musk appears to have unloaded approximately $1.1 billion worth of his stock in Tesla.

Elon Musk Just Sold $5 Billion of His Tesla Stock

By Jon Christian

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is planning to sell roughly $21 billion of stock in the company. A possible reason why: to avoid paying a ton of taxes.

There’s a Reason Elon Musk Is Suddenly Desperate to Sell Tesla Stock

By Tony Ho Tran

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the Tesla CEO's net worth slid some $50 billion since the beginning of the week.

Elon Musk Loses $50 Billion in Two Days, But He’s Still Richer Than Bezos

By Victor Tangermann

NASA boss Bill Nelson has made it clear: the mission to return humans to the Moon is delayed a year — and it’s mostly Jeff Bezos’ fault.

NASA Head Says Moon Landing Delayed a Year, Blames Jeff Bezos’ Lawsuit

By Tony Ho Tran

It appears that billionaire Jeff Bezos may have a sense of humor after tweeting a "threat" at Leonardo DiCaprio.

Jeff Bezos Mad That Girlfriend Is Thirsting for Leonardo DiCaprio

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla CEO Elon Musk waded into tax discourse this weekend, saying that he'd sell $21 billion in Tesla stock depending on the results of a Twitter poll.

Elon Musk Is Letting a Twitter Poll Decide Whether He Sells $21 Billion in Tesla Stock

By Jon Christian

Tom Hanks says he has no interest in going on a trip to space on a rocket made by Jeff Bezos' space company, Blue Origin.

Tom Hanks Says He Turned Down Jeff Bezos’ Offer to Go to Space

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla shares are surging yet again — and that has Tesla CEO Elon Musk's net worth blasting past the competition, leaving Warren Buffet in the dust.

Elon Musk’s Net Worth Is Now Three Times That of Warren Buffett’s

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire Elon Musk asked David Beasley, the director of the United Nation's World Food Program "exactly how $6B will solve world hunger."

Elon Musk’s World Hunger Tweet Is Taking the UN Wildly Out of Context

By Victor Tangermann

Several Musk's tweets appear to have crossed a line even for him — because, after an outcry, he deleted them, in a rare reversal for Musk.

Elon Musk Deletes Sexist Tweets

By Jon Christian

Musk took to Twitter to let the world know he was considering creating a school that might make your parents blush if you applied to it.

Elon Musk Says He Wants to Start a University with a Dirty Name

By Tony Ho Tran

Billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, has other goals in mind for his tremendous wealth: making humanity interplanetary.

Elon Musk Says He Wants to Use Wealth to Get Humans to Mars, Not Pay Taxes

By Victor Tangermann

Musk took to Twitter on Wednesday to make fun of common cryptocurrency scams.

Elon Musk Mocks Dogecoin Crypto Scams

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to whine about a questionable plan by Democrats to tax billionaires, which would cut his wealth by $50 billion.

Elon Musk Whines About Taxation Plan for Billionaires

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's net worth grew past a quarter trillion dollars, or over $252 billion, according to Bloomberg.

Elon Musk Is Now Worth Over a Quarter Trillion Dollars

By Victor Tangermann

In which we examine the techincal, legal, and ethical aspects of Elon Musk painting his face on the surface of the Moon.

Could Elon Musk Paint a Giant Picture of His Face on the Moon?

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk popped in on a rival carmaker’s executive conference to give a motivational talk as a "surprise guest."

Elon Musk Gives Surprise Motivational Talk to Rival Carmaker’s Employees

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk Meets with Creator of Iron Man-Style Suit at SpaceX Launch Site

Elon Musk Meets with Creator of Iron Man-Style Suit at SpaceX Launch Site

By Tony Ho Tran

As soon as famed "Star Trek" actor William Shatner stumbled out of Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule, he was born a new man. But Jeff Bezos was distracted.

William Shatner Tried to Tell Jeff Bezos About the Glory of Spaceflight, But Bezos Interrupted Him to Spray Staff With Champagne

By Victor Tangermann

A new Washington Post report paints an extremely troubling picture of Blue Origin's work culture, from rampant sexism to condescending micromanaging styles.

A Guy Quit Blue Origin and Sent Jeff Bezos a Memo That Tore the Company to Shreds

By Victor Tangermann