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Elon Musk’s Pledge To Fix South Australia’s Energy Issues Prompts Ukrainian Pm To Get In Touch

... be possible within 100 days. Mike Cannon-Brookes, the Australian founder of Nasdaq-listed tech firm Atlassian asked Musk on Twitter if this was a real bet. Musk replied that it was, adding that if the company couldn't do it within 100 days, the contract would be free. Solar City makes solar solutions for areas which can store up energy during the day and feed that back into an area's grid. The promise was applauded by Australians including Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who thanked Musk on Twitter for an "in-depth discussion". Now citizens from other countries have taken to social media to ask Musk to bring his technology to their countries. A user by the name of @5 Allan Le Vito urged Musk to bring a similar project to Ukraine. Musk replied "sure", and laid out the cost. The price Musk quoted was the same figure he had told Cannon-Brooks for the South Australia project - $250 per k Wh (kilowatt-hour) for 100 MWh-plus (megawatt-hour) systems. Musk's response prompted Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman to ask for Musk to talk the proposal "over in details". And Matthew Warner, a co-founder at agricultural technology firm ...

Reusable Falcon 9 Rocket Is A Triumph For Spacex's Elon Musk

... Photo. 47 CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN COMMENTEMAILMORE. To outside observers, Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket launch Thursday evening might not have looked particularly remarkable — no streaking contrail through the sky, the rumble muffled a bit by gusty winds. But after the first stage completed its work and descended to a landing on an ocean platform, Elon Musk said he was rendered nearly speechless. “This is a huge day,” the Space X founder and CEO said after the launch from Kennedy Space Center, joined by his five boys at a celebratory press conference. “My mind is blown, frankly.”. The launch of the SES-10 commercial satellite marked the first time Space X had re-flown a Falcon booster, culminating 15 years of work to prove that large, orbital rockets can be reused. It was a triumphant moment for Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who since starting Space X in 2002 has faced doubters of his unconventional approach to spaceflight and grandiose ambitions to establish a city on Mars. [ Space X launches, lands used Falcon 9 rocket ...

Elon Musk Has Launched A Company That Hopes To Link Your Brain To A Computer

... consider it wise for CEO Elon Musk to have a seat at the table. “Elon is being pragmatic,” says Joe Dennison, associate portfolio manager of Zevenbergen Capital Investments in Seattle. less. Policy differences aside, Tesla’s recent stock surge suggests investors consider it wise for CEO Elon Musk to have a seat at the table. “Elon is being pragmatic,” says Joe Dennison, associate portfolio. more. Photo: Associated Press /File Photo. Image 2 of 31. Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., left, speaks with Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Inc., during the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California, U. S., on Tuesday, March 17, 2015.  less. Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., left, speaks with Elon Musk, co-founder and chief ...

Five Things We Learned This Week

... Customer Support. Elon Musk’s Real Moonshot: Five Things We Learned This Week. Colonizing Mars is probably easier than his goal for Tesla next year. Five Things We Learned This Week (03/31). 1) Elon Musk Is Setting Himself Up for a Fall. Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk says he can make 500,000 cars next year. That’s a dramatic increase for the electric-car company, which made a little more than 76,000 in 2016. The key is his new Model 3, a $35,000 sedan—about half the price of its current line—scheduled to start deliveries sometime next year. At his target, Musk would have to sell more vehicles than the BMW 3 Series and the Mercedes C class combined.  Wall Street analysts say that’s not likely , Bloomberg’s Tom Randall reports. And Musk has a history of blowing self-imposed deadlines. “It could happen,” said Salim Morsy, electric car analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance. “I’m pretty sure it won’t.”. 2) Robots Are Even Threatening the Pizza Delivery Guy. In the future, will there be any jobs that robots can’t do? A Domino’s Pizza franchisee is turning to robots to deliver pizzas in Germany and the Netherlands. ...

Elon Musk On Brink Of Wright Brothers Moment With Reused Rocket

... of production, previously spent more than a decade at BMW. Space X has a $1.6 billion contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to resupply the International Space Station and a second pact valued at as much as $2.6 billion to transport crews to the orbiting lab. The company was recently awarded its second contract to fly missions for the U. S. Air Force and plans to send two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. The reused rocket was first flown on April 8 with the CRS-8 mission, a cargo resupply mission to the space station. If the launch goes off without a hitch — and the rocket booster is once again recovered on the drone ship — SES will get its own piece of space flight history as a memento. “Gwynne has promised us parts of the rocket,” Halliwell said. “We want them for the SES board room.”. Colorado incomes rise, but start to look more average. March 28, 2017, 6:28 pm. Personal incomes in Colorado rose from $277.7 billion in 2015 to $288.4 billion in 2016, a 3.9 percent increase, ...

The Surprising People Ceos Worship

... Piper Jaffray. And at the same time, it's becoming more global. This week Amazon announced it had acquired the Middle East's largest online retailer, Souq , for $800 million. Shipping economics have never been more important to Amazon. A big reason for its current vicious price war with consumer brands and Wal-Mart is difficulty moving lots of packages at a profit. Ted S. Warren | AP. Ajit Pai: The new gatekeeper of the internet. Regulators may seem like the boring people of technology, seeking to limit its reach rather than lead innovation, but this week new Federal Communications Commission chair Ajit Pai demonstrated a little bit of his power to influence, if not inspire, every single move made online. Congress voted to reverse an Obama-era rule that limited the ability of the telecommunications companies that provide broadband access to sell private-user data without consent. It is a decision that Pai supports (he voted against the Obama-era rule when he was in the minority among FCC members). Pai is also expected to revisit net neutrality rules enacted during the Obama era, which was designed ...

Elon Musk's Openai Develops Bots That Can Create Their Own Language

... by lead authors Igor Mordatch and Pieter Abbeel, the researchers describe how the bots used reinforcement learning to accomplish simple goals. Using a plain white box, the bots were depicted as a red, green, or blue circle. Two bots were instructed to move the third bot to a different location within the box but not told how to accomplish that task. They were given clues such as “Go to” or “Look at” by the researchers, but they were required to create their own machine language to communicate with each other. The researchers then assigned English words to the numerical strings the bots came up with. Through trial and error, the bots were able to learn what worked and what didn’t as they attempted to accomplish the assigned goals. “We think that if we slowly increase the complexity of their environment, and the range of actions the agents themselves are allowed to take, it’s possible they’ll create an expressive language which contains concepts beyond the basic verbs and nouns that ...

Why Elon Musk Worries About Artificial Intelligence

... next month. One thing you won't hear him championing is the unfettered rise of artificial intelligence, which he once described as the "biggest existential threat" to humankind. Musk's prejudice prompted him to donate millions to the ethics think tank Open AI —and it's why he's urging other billionaire techies like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet's Larry Page to proceed with caution on their myriad of machine learning and robotics experiments. Open AI is both an ethics and a research institution. Its mandate (plucked from its website ): "Because of AI's surprising history, it's hard to predict when human-level AI might come within reach. When it does, it'll be important to have a leading research institution which can prioritize a good outcome for all over its own self-interest.". For more insight into Musk's ...

Elon Musk Seen Targeting Human-computer Link In New Venture

... In the future, it seems, he'll try to build that device through a new company, Neuralink. Musk, whose name is also tied to ambitious projects in space and electric cars, confirmed the new venture early Tuesday, after it was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. "He hasn't made an announcement, but Neuralink registered in California as a 'medical research' company last July," the Journal said. Hours later, Musk confirmed the company's name — but little else — in a tweet. More details, he said, would come in a post on the Wait But Why site, which specializes in long-form, visually rich explainers. Long Neuralink piece coming out on @waitbutwhy in about a week. Difficult to dedicate the time, but existential risk is too high not to. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 28, 2017. With few details made public, speculation about Neuralink centers on the name and how it might correspond to Musk's previous statements about incorporating artificial intelligence, or AI, into human brains. The idea of a brain-computer link has been a theme in Musk's tweets, ...

I Can Fix South Australia Power Network In 100 Days Or It's Free

... energy debate by issuing a challenge to the state’s government. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters. Elon Musk. Elon Musk: I can fix South Australia power network in 100 days or it's free. The Tesla founder says he can build a 100 MW battery storage farm within 100 days or provide the system free of charge. Friday 10 March 2017 05.04 GMT. Last modified on Tuesday 14 March 2017 05.22 GMT. Elon Musk , the billionaire co-founder of electric car giant Tesla, has thrown down a challenge to the South Australian and federal governments, saying he can solve the state’s energy woes within 100 days – or he’ll deliver the 100 MW battery storage system for free. On Thursday, Lyndon Rive, Tesla’s vice-president for energy products, told the AFR the company could install the 100-300 megawatt hours of battery storage that would be required to prevent the power shortages ...