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Tech NewsElon Musk Dances Like Nobody’s Watching at Tesla Event in China
Billionaire tech founder Elon Musk made quite a splash in China today, where he took the stage to show off the Tesla Model 3 that’s made at the company’s new multibillion-dollar plant near Shanghai—the first outside of the U.S. The Tesla CEO was so happy, he started to dance. Or, at least we think that’s … Continued
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Tech NewsTech Ghouls, Yoda Theories, and One Dumb Wikipedia War: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
This is it, everyone. 2020 begins this week. A new year, a new decade, a new physical form to inhabit . . . Anywho, let’s see what the Gizmodo team got up to this past week. We talked about how Apple’s iPad needs some time to really find itself, the dumbest Wikipedia editing face-off of … Continued
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Tech NewsStarlink Satellites Produce Wave of UFO Sightings in the US
Residents in northern Montana reported a string of strange lights dotting the sky. What looked like UFOs from an alien invasion has turned out to be another consequence of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation. SpaceX launched 60 satellites into orbit back in May and another 60 in November 11 as part of the Starlink satellite constellation, … Continued
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Tech NewsTransportationThis Cybertruck Knock-Off Can Be Yours For Just $10,800
You can’t buy Tesla’s electric Cybertruck yet, but you can get a vehicle that looks pretty close. All you need is 666,666 rubles ($10,800) and a laidback attitude. Why a laidback attitude? The fake Tesla-branded hubcaps are probably going to fall off, judging by a new video of the thing tearing through a parking lot … Continued
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Tech NewsElon Musk Hits Traffic Pylon With New Cybertruck After Dinner in Malibu
Billionaire tech icon Elon Musk turned a lot of heads in Malibu, California on Saturday night when he showed up to a swanky restaurant in his new Tesla Cybertruck. But Musk’s night on the town included at least one embarrassing hiccup. The founder of Tesla and SpaceX hit a traffic pylon with his shiny new … Continued
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Tech NewsJury Rules You Can Call Elon Musk a Pedo Guy
It took a federal jury in Los Angeles less than an hour to throw out a $190 million defamation case against Elon Musk. Calling someone a “pedo guy” to an audience of millions of Twitter followers isn’t an accusation, the jury decided, because words are tricky little devils that can mean a lot of things … Continued
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Tech NewsCrimeCybertruck Is a Cop Now
The Cybertruck had a good run. Since Elon Musk introduced Tesla’s dystopian play-tank last week, the vehicle has likely garnered more publicity than virtually any car announced in the last decade—and even the trove of critics dunking on the Minecraftian block-wagon seem at least a little bit intrigued by what it will look like on roadways. … Continued
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Tech NewsIs This Tesla’s Best Electric Carb?
More people seem to like Tesla’s divisive Cybertruck design when it’s a pile of mashed potatoes instead of some low-poly, PlayStation 2 game asset brought to life. More than a million Twitter users have watched a video shared by NowThisNews producer Dan Milano showing his brother and noted spud artisan Greg Milano sculpting the vehicle … Continued
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Tech NewsMusk to Testify He Didn’t Do the Thing and Furthermore, He Deleted the Thing That He Did
Elon Musk, who called a British national “pedo guy” for publicly flogging his fragile ego over the Thai cave submarine fiasco last year, will evidently defend himself during his testimony in court by claiming that he didn’t call Unsworth a pedophile. British diver Vernon Unsworth—who aided in the effort to rescue a group of young … Continued
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Tech NewsTransportationThis Is the Dumb Ford v Ferrari That We Deserve
Ford v Ferrari dramatizes the story of an engineer team’s quest to build a Ford car that can beat Ferrari at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans race so the American company can boost lagging car sales. The film, released earlier this month, has raised eyebrows and pumped fists alike, with reviews deeming it … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle Stadia Woes, Disney+ Hacks, WoW Puppers, and Half Earth: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Another week in the bag, folks! And we’re going into a holiday week, which I’m hoping for most of our readers means at least some reprieve from the daily grind. Stop and treat yourself to a turkey sandwich, at least! Though you can skip all the ungodly foods in this weird Thanksgiving dish Twitter thread … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeThe Cybertruck Is a Vision for a Dystopian Climate Future
Elon Musk’s Cybertruck is visionary. The “brutal, angular beast,” as our pals at Jalopnik called it, was a moment of genius for Tesla fanboys and Blade Runner-inspired-design aficionados. It’s alleged specs showed an electric car can bean aggressive speed demon that could body wimpy Priuses off the road. But look deeper and the real vision … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThe Cybertruck Is Good, Fight Me (Update: Sorry, Sorry, I’m Trying to Delete)
On Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company’s latest electric vehicle, the aptly named Cybertruck, in the process snapping every neuron in my brain that has braved the long march of the past few years. The Cybertruck supposedly has great specs like a 3,500-pound payload, up to 14,000-pound towing, an adaptive air suspension, and … Continued
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Tech NewsWill Elon Musk’s Cybertruck Arrive Before the Flying Car?
Building the future is hard. And nowhere was that more evident than at Tesla’s grand unveiling of the Cybertruck in Los Angeles last night. But if anyone can do it, Elon Musk can, right? Right? Unconventional design choices aside, the Tesla presentation had some really embarrassing gaffes, like when Tesla’s lead designer, Franz von Holzhausen, … Continued
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Tech NewsTurns Out Elon Musk-Backed OpenAI’s Text Generator Is More Funny Than Dangerous, For Now
Elon Musk-backed non-profit OpenAI, which claimed to have developed a machine learning-powered text generation software so powerful that it couldn’t be ethically released to the public, has… done just that. OpenAI previously said that the text generator, using the GPT-2 software and trained on some 40 gigabytes of data yanked from eight million websites, was … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightElon Musk on His Space Internet: ‘Whoa, It Worked’
It’ll require a few more years—and thousands of more satellites—before SpaceX’s Starlink internet constellation achieves full functionality, but that didn’t stop Elon Musk from participating in an early test of the system, which apparently worked. Late last night, Elon Musk announced on Twitter that he was sending a “tweet through space via Starlink satellite.” A … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightElon Musk Smoking Joe Rogan’s Weed Somehow Ended Up Costing Taxpayers $5 Million
Last year, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk went on YouTube host Joe Rogan’s show and smoked some weed. That was unfortunate, because SpaceX happens to be a U.S. military contractor with security clearances, and the U.S. government does not like marijuana—and in this instance, it disliked it so much it spent $5 million to … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightElon Musk: NASA Can Share SpaceX’s IP With Literally Anybody, ‘No Charge’
During an event with NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine on Thursday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk publicly stated that the agency can share SpaceX’s intellectual property with whomever it wants—not that NASA seems especially eager to. Bridenstine and Musk met at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, in an effort to ease growing tension between the aerospace … Continued
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Tech NewsElon Musk: ‘I’m a Fucking Idiot’
Elon Musk admitted he is a “fucking idiot” for smearing a British cave diver that helped save a dozen kids as a “child rapist” in an email to a BuzzFeed reporter, court documents in the ensuing defamation trial show. A refresher: Last year, 12 kids and their soccer team coach were trapped in a cave … Continued
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Tech NewsFederal Safety Regulators Say They’re Looking Into Reports of Tesla Smart Summon Crashes
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) isn’t so thrilled with Tesla’s rollout of a feature that automatically summons the company’s vehicles in parking lots, telling Reuters they are investigating resulting crashes. The smart summon feature, launched last week as part of Tesla’s optional $6,000 “Full Self Driving” package, allow a user to use an … Continued
By Tom McKay