Homes close to new pylons to be offered £1,000 off bills a year November 19, 2023 Households closest to new pylons and electricity substations could receive up to £1,000 a year off their bills under plans being announced by Jeremy Hunt.
US regulators find over 75 environmental hang-ups with SpaceX’s mega-rocket Starship June 14, 2022 US regulators are still mulling the decision to hand Elon Musk’s SpaceX a launch licences for its mega-rocket Starship, after an environmental assessment found over 75 hang-ups. The eagerly awaited report from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will require SpaceX to take more than 75 actions to mitigate the environmental impacts from its proposed plan [...]
Bitcoin NFTs push transaction fees upward, and Ethereum moves closer to staked ETH withdrawals February 6, 2023 Data from CryptoCompare shows that the price of Bitcoin moved mostly sideways throughout the week, starting off at $23,000 and dipping to $22,500.
Twitter’s Brussels office exodus raises alarm bells for online safety November 24, 2022 Twitter has reportedly disbanded its entire Brussels office, as Elon Musk continues his rampage of headcount. According to initial reports from the Financial Times, Julia Mozer and Dario La Nasa, who were in charge of Twitter’s digital policy in Europe, left the company last week. The pair were reportedly instrumental to the social media company’s [...]
Musk defends $56bn Tesla pay package saying he was focusing on the company’s execution November 16, 2022 Elon Musk took the stand to defend his $56bn (£47.7m) Tesla pay package from 2018, saying the EV maker was his sole focus at the time. “I was entirely focused on the execution of the company,” he told a US tribunal on Wednesday. Musk was taken to court by a company shareholder who accused the [...]
When Musk met Bolsonaro: Brazilian President says Twitter takeover will be a ‘breath of hope’ May 20, 2022 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said that Elon Musk’s proposed takeover of Twitter was “a breath of hope” for him. Bolsonaro said that he hoped the U.S. billionaire would show the world during Musk’s visit to Brazil how much the country does to protect the Amazon. The two will discuss a potential partnership on rural [...]
Musk: Starlink will lobby for exemption to operate in Iran amidst sanctions September 20, 2022 Starlink will lobby for an exemption to operate in Iran despite the current sanctions, according to the network’s owner Elon Musk. He didn’t specify on Monday night who or which legal authority he planned to lobby to. The comments came night after he tweeted that the service was now active on “all continents, including Antarctica.” [...]
Planet Crypto: Gary Gensler’s gonna have to face it, he’s addicted to suing July 14, 2023 The chieftains of chuckles at Planet Crypto have been at the comedy crayons again, and once more it's Gary Gensler on the canvas.
Musk massacre: Thousands of Twitter staff expect to be sacked via email at 9am today November 4, 2022 Social media giant Twitter is expected to tell staff later today whether they are to be dismissed as part of job cuts in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover. There have been suggestions that as many as half of the social media giant’s global workforce could be cut. Twitter employs more than 7,500 people around [...]
Vestager: AI law on the way – but it might take a year April 30, 2023 The European Union is likely to reach a political agreement this year that will pave the way for the world’s first major artificial intelligence (AI) law, the bloc’s tech regulation chief Margrethe Vestager said on Sunday. This follows a preliminary deal reached on Thursday by members of the European Parliament to push through the draft of the [...]