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Interview: ‘Silicon Valley’ star T.J. Miller on startup culture, women in tech, Uber, Elon Musk, and weed
When T.J. Miller starts talking about the tech industry, it’s worth a listen. For one, as an actor on HBO’s hit show Silicon Valley, he has a unique perspective on startup life. Two, he sparked controversy at last year’s TechCrunch Crunchies after offending some folks while hosting...
SpaceX’s Elon Musk wants to go into space by 2021 and start Mars missions by 2025
SpaceX founder Elon Musk says he has his heart set on going into space himself, perhaps in the next four or five years, and organize the first flights to Mars by 2025. Musk’s travel timetable came out...
Billionaire Space Club pits Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos vs. Richard Branson vs. Paul Allen and more
When Jeff Bezos welcomed SpaceX to the rocket landing “club” last week, it set off a round of twittering over whether Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and fellow billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX were really in the...
Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos: Watch this hilarious animated recap of their great space race
History was made earlier this week when Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket, and then successfully returned it to its Florida landing pad. The successful mission set off yet another round of Twitter barbs in the space...
Elon Musk explains why a carbon tax is as necessary as garbage collection fees
Policymakers have been debating – and dismissing – the idea of putting a tax on carbon emissions for more than a decade, but the way billionaire innovator Elon Musk...
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and others commit $1B to stop AI from taking over the world
While flying cars and (real) hoverboards may not be coming any time soon, there’s a lot of effort and money pooled behind the development of a robust artificial intelligence. That pool just got a lot bigger thanks to a newly formed non-profit...
SpaceX’s Elon Musk gets in the Thanksgiving spirit on ‘The Big Bang Theory’
You wouldn’t think Elon Musk was a warm and fuzzy guy, based on this year’s biography of the hard-driving CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, but on this week’s episode of “The Big Bang Theory,” we learn that he loves to help the homeless. The big reveal comes when engineer and one-time spaceflier...