Tag: spacex
Telecom Experts Say Elon Musk’s Wireless Plan Is Historically Stupid
Earlier this month I noted that Elon Musk's Starlink is giving very unsubtle indications that the company wants to jump into the wireless business. I also noted that there's a very long list of reasons why this isn't likely to go well for him, ranging from the extremely high cost of network build-outs, to the...
Elon Musk Wants To Get Into Wireless Phones And He’s Probably Not Going To Have A Good Time
There have been rumblings for a while that America's richest and most annoying white supremacist, Elon Musk, really wants to get into the wireless phone business. His lobbyists have been making noise in support for broader phone unlocking rules, and there've been several IPO-fluffing press leaks over the last few months indicating they're keen on...
SpaceX’s Earnings Show Elon Wiped Out Two-Thirds Of Twitter’s Ad Business
When SpaceX filed for its IPO, we went through the S-1 to point out just how far off the mark Elon Musk's predictions about his Twitter takeover turned out to be. Indeed, the failure of Twitter as a business was so catastrophic, Musk had to hide it by merging all his Xs together: he had...
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Quietly Stopped Updating In April. Basically No One Noticed.
As perhaps a few Elon Musk fans may remember, he got really annoyed at Wikipedia last year and tasked his second-rate LLM, Grok, with recreating it as "Grokipedia." Grokipedia, launched nearly a year ago, basically starts by forking Wikipedia and then having its AI "generate" more details and more stories. It's... not very good. And...
The $40 Gap: How SpaceX's IPO Forced $10 Billion Into a Losing Stock
A stock was bought at $160 and is now $120. The money was forced in by Nasdaq index rules. The losses were $2-3 billion for everyday investors. The financial media was silent.
NASA Opens Media Accreditation for Roman Space Telescope and Crew-13 Launches
Space enthusiasts love to obsess over the James Webb Space Telescope—and for good reason—but there’s a new giant about to take the spotlight. NASA is quietly gearing up for one of its busiest launch windows in recent memory, putting both a revolutionary deep-space observatory and a fresh crew of international astronauts on the launchpad back-to-back. […]
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