Breaking the silence on recent reports about his ketamine prescription, Elon Musk said the medication helps manage occasional periods of low mood, allows him to perform better and ultimately benefits Tesla investors.Musk's comments about ketamine use came during a wide-ranging interview with former CNN host Don Lemon. The television journalist gave social media users a glimpse into their sometimes contentious conversation.Even before the interview's release, the conversation sparked interest...
During a 2024 India Today Conclave session, Tech Today editor Aayush Ailawadi interviewed Moran Cerf, a neuroscientist, Israeli security specialist, and professor at Columbia Business School. Cerf made a thought-provoking claim, suggesting that Elon Musk's Neuralink technology might be vital in curing cancer.Discussing Musk's Neuralink, which recently achieved its first human brain implant, Cerf elaborated: "The essence of Neuralink is that our brain is the same brain from many millennia, and...
A future, more advanced version of SpaceX's Starship megarocket will travel
“Few people on this planet know what it is to be truly despised,” says Nick Naylor, the tobacco lobbyist at the center of 2005’s Thank You for Smoking. Nearly 20 years after the film’s release, Elon Musk, who many don’t realize was one of its executive producers, has come to know the feeling well. “I have no problem being hated. Hate away,” Musk told Andrew Ross Sorkin during last November’s DealBook Summit. His remarks came as advertisers were fleeing the Musk-owned social media platform, X,...
Elon Musk released the raw computer code behind his version of an artificial intelligence chatbot Sunday, an escalation by one of the world's richest men in a battle to control the future of AI. Grok, which is designed to give snarky replies styled after the science-fiction novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," is a product from xAI, the company Musk founded last year. While xAI is an independent entity from X, formerly known as Twitter, its technology has been integrated into the social...
X says it is going to appeal the ruling, which sided with the far-left 'Center for Countering Digital Hate.'
Attorney General Andrew Bailey said the state will not be stonewalled in its attempts to determine whether the 'watchdog' group defrauded Missourians in order to trample on their free speech rights.
Happy Tuesday, all! Here's your Tuesday Tech Drop, the top stories in tech and politics from the past week. Musk's intimidation tactics take a hit Tech billionaire Elon Musk took an embarrassing loss in court on Monday after a federal judge tossed out his lawsuit accusing a disinformation watchdog of attempting to hurt his social media company’s bottom line. Judge Charles Breyer agreed to throw out the lawsuit Musk filed against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, in which he alleged the...
Venture capitalist David Sacks counters criticism of Elon Musk's involvement in Tesla, highlighting market challenges rather than leadership focus as the reason for the company's recent stock performance downturn. read more
When Jeannette came by the social security office to claim a payment, Richard Smith was struck by her sunny and cheerful demeanour. It would go down as his ‘best day’s work’On Valentine’s Day 1968 I was working at the newly founded Department of Health and Social Security in London when I was summoned to the front desk to deal with a confusion about a client’s identity.Waiting for me there was a beautiful young woman with a big lovely smile. She needed her single-mother’s payment but she and her...
A24's 'Civil War,' Alex Garland's political action thriller, isn't out yet, but the online reaction has been intense.
If you guessed that an episode called “Ladies Of The Willow World” would primarily feature the stories of the women of Shōgun, you would be right. And they have really been through hell, man. Sure, the guys have a pretty brutal time of it, too, but at least they have agency. Even John Blackthorne, an Englishman who barely even knows Japan, has now been granted the title of hatamoto, given his own house and personal consort, command of Toranaga’s cannon artillery unit, a new position as chief...