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If one is to take anything at all away from Elon Musk’s update to SpaceX’s planetary colonization strategy on September 29, it ought to be the tangible and undeniable progress the company has made with real, Mars-focused hardware development. To take Musk at his word, the general atmosphere pervading the two relevant programs is one of extreme success and confidence. Raptor, the powerful methane-oxygen rocket engine intended to be the workhorse for any larger launch vehicle, has conducted dozens (42, to be specific) of successful hot fires at SpaceX’s McGregor, Texas testing facilities. These ranged from a handful of seconds all the way to 100 seconds in duration, and Mu…

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China is calling in the dogs on North Korea. Kim Jong-un has 120 days to close all North Korean businesses within Chinese borders. That means 100,000 workers that help fund the North Korean regime to the tune of ~$230 million a year would be sent home packing. The U.N. turned up the heat on China to crack down on North Korea in light of its nuclear missiles program—two warning shots over Japan and a handful of threats will do that. And China might be the only one with the key to Kim’s heart: trade. China controls 80% of all trade (~$6.3 billion) that enters and exits North Korea. It has already cut off North Korea’s biggest exports (coal and textiles), and …

The verdict is out on flu shots. Many medical experts now agree it is more important to protect yourself and your family from the flu vaccine than the flu itself. Every year the pharmaceutical industry, medical experts and the mainstream media work hard to convince us to get vaccinated against the flu. But we’re not being told the whole story. What we don’t hear, are cases about the adverse reactions or about the toxic chemicals being injected into us. Read below: 11 reasons why flu shots are more dangerous than the flu itself. 1. The flu shot actually makes you sick to begin with Have you ever noticed how vaccinated children get si…

Amid big reveals at IAC2017 about SpaceX’s future, CEO Elon Musk dropped a mammoth concept: City-to-city rocket travel that would transport people across the globe in under an hour. 3The concept involves regular passengers using the multi-planetary transport system for the price of a regular airline ticket. Customers would board a Musk’s coined BFR (Big F****** Rocket) and lift off into space. Passengers within the cabin would speed off toward the destination city at 27,000 km/h (~18,000 mph). This concept would allow for a trip from New York City to Shanghai in roughly 40 minutes. Being that the rocket will be moving across the globe in space, SpaceX and passeng…

Elon Musk announced that Tesla is well on its way to completing the world’s largest lithium ion battery in Jamestown, Australia, at a Powerpack event held at Noeon Hornsdale wind farm on September 29. After just two months of construction, the facility is already operating at a 50 MW level. The world’s largest battery is expected to be fully operational in December 2017. Tesla said in a statement that the company partnered with Neoen, a renewable energy provider, and will complete the world’s largest battery pack within the next 100 days. For Musk, who earlier in the day presented his vision for SpaceX-built Martian cities at IAC2017 in Australia, the world’s largest…

Well, technically he wasn’t “fired,” but John Bryant will step down as CEO after seven years at Kellogg (-0.36%). The cereal company has struggled (stock is down 19% over the past year) to adapt to a changing food industry in which acai bowls are replacing Frosted Flakes and Pop-Tarts, two of Kellogg’s mainstays. Steven Cahillane, chief exec of wellness company Nature’s Bounty, will need to add some more nutritional value to Kellogg’s trail mix when he takes over.

Michael Wirth is living proof that if you stick around at your company long enough…then one day you just might run the whole thing. And that’s exactly what happened at Chevron (+0.14%), which just tapped the vet of 37 years to head the No. 2 oil company in the U.S. Wirth, a former engineer and operator, is known as a “get things done” kind of guy—qualities that Chevron is looking for as it adapts to the new normal of oil prices hovering around $50 a barrel. He’ll replace John Watson, who will head into an easy retirement knowing his company doubled up ExxonMobil in total shareholder returns since 2010.

You and 38 million others spent 6.7 billion hours binging on Roku’s streaming devices so far this year. Now, it’s taking that momentum to the public markets at $14 a share. Roku (or ROKU for all you investing enthusiasts) raised $219 million and IPO’d at a $1.3 billion valuation, quickly running up 68% its first day on the Nasdaq. But before you hit SUBMIT on that $10,000 market order, remember Roku took a page out of Snap’s book with a dual-class stock structure. Class A shareholders (you) will get one vote per share, while Class B shareholders (company insiders) will get 10 votes per share. It’ll leave CEO Anthony Wood and other execs with 98% voting po…

No actually. You will be able to buy stock in Eminem classics. The production company Bass Brothers (Jeff and Mark) filed with the SEC to “mini-IPO” 25% of its royalty rights to Eminem’s music catalog. The duo helped propel Eminem to stardom beginning with 1999’s Slim Shady LP—you know, the album that inspired your 5th grade do-rag. And if opening royalty rights on a discography to public investors seems novel…it is. So to all real investors: please stand up.

In just a few years you might be taking your vacuum for a spin around the block. That’s because Dyson, the company that’s giving your shag rug the attention it deserves, announced it’s going to build an electric car to be road-ready by 2020. Producing an electric vehicle has always been on the mind of CEO James Dyson, who is a major advocate of curbing auto emissions. Quite the leap for a vacuum company to go into…car production…but we knew something was up when it hired all those directors from Aston Martin and Tesla. At the very least it’ll have a clean interior.

Apple (-0.62%) is facing production issues with the iPhone X—and that spells trouble as it races to satisfy the Genius Bar wannabes already lining up around the block. It’s (actually) a Shakespearean tragedy There’s a bottleneck involving the parts that comprise the much-anticipated facial recognition technology. But Apple has managed to keep things romantic by naming these modules Romeo and Juliet. Romeo is the one shooting red beams to map your facial structure, while Juliet’s the one interpreting the data. The problem? Romeo parts (produced by LG Innotek and Sharp) are taking longer to build than the Juliets…forcing Tim Cook to asketh: wherefore art tho…

In a truly jaw-dropping tour-de-force of confidence and detail, Elon Musk has provided a presentation with the ultimate goal of refining and optimizing the Interplanetary Transport System revealed just over a year ago to date. Now generally named the BFR, or Big Falcon Rocket, it is plainly clear that this new and improved launch vehicle is a vastly more useful spacecraft. BFR’s bosoter and spaceship. (SpaceX) In the midst of a dizzying amount of technical details, Musk also offered a serious look into SpaceX’s strategy behind funding the development of BFR. Incredibly, Musk said that he and the company believe it will be possible to fund this development by replaci…

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In a major divergence from SpaceX’s original strategy for colonizing Mars, Elon Musk has begun to release teasers suggesting that SpaceX will pursue the creation of a base or city on the Moon, likely before any serious pursuit of Mars. While completely void of specifics, the teaser photos that have been published portray cities on other planets, with SpaceX’s partially downsized Big Falcon Spaceship (BFS) the main focus in both. Multiple BFS’ can be seen in each picture, suggesting that SpaceX has chosen to miniaturize its planetary colonization booster and ship, but accounted for this change by simply producing more of them. A SpaceX-built “Moon Base Alpha”. (SpaceX…

A “catastrophic sleep-loss epidemic” is causing a host of potentially fatal diseases, a leading expert says. In an interview with the Guardian, Professor Matthew Walker, director of the Centre for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, said that sleep deprivation affected “every aspect of our biology” and was widespread in modern society. And yet the problem was not being taken seriously by politicians and employers, with a desire to get a decent night’s sleep often stigmatised as a sign of laziness, he said. Electric lights, television and computer screens, longer commutes, the blurring of the line between work and personal time, an…

As relief efforts continue to take place in Puerto Rico after a Category 4 storm Hurricane Maria caused widespread devastation and created an island-wide black out, California-based Tesla is shipping hundreds of Powerwall battery systems to the unincorporated U.S. territory and restoring electricity to some 3.5 million residents left without power. Tesla’s Powerwall battery system, first introduced in 2015, is designed to be a residential stationary energy storage unit that can be charged through solar panels. Tesla continues to send shipments of Powerwall systems into the region and working with local organizations on restoring electrical power back to the island. Tes…

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Tesla has updated its popular referral program to include customers who have purchased either a solar product or the companyÂ’s home battery unit, Powerwall. The update is effective September 28, 2017. Model S and Model X owners are also impacted by the new update and can now refer friends to purchase Tesla solar products. Likewise, Tesla solar customers can refer friends to purchase solar panels or a Model S/X with free unlimited Supercharging. The referral program update that incorporates TeslaÂ’s solar offerings will phase out SolarCityÂ’s referral program. Tesla has also recently updated its mobile app to include a feature that allows users to see how much CO2 e…

Teslarati has obtained a rare photo shot in black and white of a Tesla Model 3 on the Fremont factory production line. The Model 3 is seen with a handwritten timestamp of “9-26” on a portion of the bumper below the front trunk, which suggests that the vehicle was produced just days ago. The Model 3 appears to be in its final stages of production inside of what CEO Elon Musk calls TeslaÂ’s “alien dreadnaught” factory. The first sighting of TeslaÂ’s robot army to be used on the Model 3 production line took place in April of this year after a Field Service Engineer for Kuka Robotics – maker of TeslaÂ’s “X-Men superhero robots” – revealed an army of 467 new rob…