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We have a winner for Tesla’s Next Gen Roadster. Model S owner and host of Teslanomics, Ben Sullins, has referred over 50 Model S and X sales in TeslaÂ’s latest referral program, giving him the opportunity to “buy” a FounderÂ’s Series next generation Roadster at a 100% discount. Simply put, itÂ’s free. Referral program participants that gifted 5 or more Model S and X buyers with $1,000 discounts and free Supercharging first got wind of a Next Gen Roadster in July, after receiving a notification in their Tesla app that a new Secret Level had been unlocked. “YouÂ’ve unlocked the first secret level. Refer 5 more friends for the ability to purchase a FounderÂ’s Series n…

SpaceX is deep into preparations for its 16th launch of 2017 and is scheduled to carry KT Sat’s Koreasat 5A communications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) at 3:34 p.m. EDT October 30. As is routine for SpaceX, the Falcon 9 booster performed a brief ~3 second static fire of its 9 Merlin 1D engines at its LC-39A pad on Thursday, Oct. 26. However, SpaceX’s static fire procedure is better described as a complete launch rehearsal that includes everything except the rocket’s liftoff. This serves to thoroughly test Falcon 9’s mission-critical avionics and hardware and thus catch any latent bugs that managed to slip through quality assurance checks in the Hawth…

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  I've had a lot of big dreams I've made a lot of bad moves I know you could walk away But you never do I've met a lot of cold hearts I've learned to smile and deceive I know I'm hard to be around But you never leave I'm not easy to understand But you hold out your hand And you say you love me Just as I am You always treat me The best that you can You say you want me, need me Love me baby Just as I am, just as I am I've made a lot of heartaches I've found a lot of closed doors When all the others turn away You love me more You love me more I'm not easy to understand But you hold out your hand And you say …

Accountant - Someone who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. Auditor - Someone who arrives after the battle and bayonets all the wounded. Banker - The fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. (Mark Twain) Economist - An expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. Statistician - Someone who is good with numbers but lacks the personality to be an accountant. Actuary - Someone who brings a fake bomb on a plane, because that decreases the chances that there will be another bomb on the plane. Programmer - Someone who solves a problem you didn't kn…

The Spanish government has stripped Catalonia of its autonomy and taken charge of its government. The measures came early on Saturday after the Catalan parliament voted to declare independence on Friday. An official state bulletin dismissed Catalan leaders and handed control of Catalonia to Spain's Deputy Prime Minister, Soraya Saenz de Santamaria. Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has called for "democratic opposition" to the takeover. He made the call in a TV address broadcast from an undisclosed location. Earlier, Spain's interior ministry took charge of Catalonia's police after firing senior Catalan police officials. On Friday, PM Mariano …

Date: October 19, 2017 Source: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Summary: Snakes and spiders evoke fear and disgust in many people, even in developed countries where hardly anybody comes into contact with them. Until now, there has been debate about whether this aversion is innate or learnt. Scientists have recently discovered that it is hereditary: Even babies feel stressed when seeing these creatures - long before they could have learnt this reaction. Read more: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171019110953.htm

The Tesla community is known to be one of the most passionate groups of owners and enthusiasts of all car brands on the market. Having a knack for seemingly all things related to the Silicon Valley-based electric car maker, the community has assimilated into a new culture that isn’t shy of sharing their devout commitment to chief Elon MuskÂ’s mission to “accelerate the worldÂ’s transition to sustainable energy”. Whether itÂ’s building an enormous Tesla logo out of thousands of LEGO pieces, or 3D-printing a mini Tesla Supercharger that doubles as a phone charger, the penchant to share the companyÂ’s brand name and integrate it into oneÂ’s lifestyle isnÂ’t foreign. One c…

The two notes sold for $1.56m and $240,000 - way higher than their estimates A note written by Albert Einstein containing advice on happy living has sold at an auction house in Jerusalem for $1.56m (£1.19m). Einstein gave the note to a courier in Tokyo in 1922 instead of a tip. He had just heard that he had won the coveted Nobel prize for physics and told the messenger that, if he was lucky, the notes would become valuable. Einstein suggested in the note that achieving a long-dreamt goal did not necessarily guarantee happiness. The German-born physicist had won the Nobel and was in Japan on a lecture tour. When the courier came to his room to…

Electronic cigarettes, the popular vapor substitute to traditional tobacco cigarettes, will soon be banned from public indoor spaces in New York State — just like the real thing. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday signed a bill to ban vaping anywhere cigarettes are already prohibited, like workplaces, restaurants and bars. The ban goes into effect in 30 days. E-cigs, as the products that vaporize a variety of oils into an inhalant are generally known, were added to the state’s Clean Indoor Air Act this summer by the State Assembly, and the measure was approved by the Senate. The original act has been around since 2003, when smoking tobacco products in public indoor …

A team of researchers at SISSA have conducted a series of olfactory tests on alexithymia, a condition marked by reduced emotional awareness and the inability to describe experienced emotions Do you express your emotions? Are you able to name them, talk about them, relate to your feelings? If your answer is not an unqualified yes, you might be among the 10 percent of the healthy population who has difficulty processing the emotions they experience: a psychological condition known as alexithymia. An alexithymic individual has difficulty, to a greater or lesser degree, in relating to the sensations - ranging from joy to fear, from disgust to anger - which make up our ex…

It was a transaction concocted on Twitter — and in a few short weeks, declared official: Tesla is helping to bring power back to Puerto Rico. Early this month, Elon Musk touted his companyÂ’s work building solar-plus-battery systems for small islands like Kauai in Hawaii and TaÂ’u in American Samoa. He suggested a similar setup could work for Puerto Rico. The U.S. territoryÂ’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló, tweeted that he was game. Musk replied quickly: “Hopefully, Tesla can be helpful.” After earlier reports of the companyÂ’s batteries arriving at San JuanÂ’s port, Tesla announced today that it has started constructing its first microgrid installation, l…

The Boring Company’s test tunnel that adjoins SpaceX and TeslaÂ’s Design Center in Hawthorne, CA is really starting to take shape. Serial tech entrepreneur Elon Musk posted an image on Saturday that shows a long run of track, pipes and reinforcement inside a tunnel. In addition to providing a first look at a 500 feet stretch of The Boring CompanyÂ’s test tunnel, Musk also revealed plans for the companyÂ’s first route thatÂ’s expected to begin from LAX airport and run parallel to major Los Angeles corridor, Interstate 405, and north to U.S. Route 101. It doesnÂ’t come as much of a surprise that Musk would choose this section as the companyÂ’s first project. After all, his…

I admire him for continue doing what he likes at his age Although what he does is too dangerous in my opinion

IS THERE PREPARING THE THIRD WORLD WAR? The United States has just taken a unique step in the history of humanity by launching this afternoon the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan. It is not a nuclear bomb, but it is a step to show that you can survive a nuclear war. For the first time in history, the United States has used the GBU-43 Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb, a gigantic projectile weighing 10 tons, designed to destroy cave complexes and underground tunnels. The United States had lost years of world influence, being surpassed by Russia and China militarily and economically. The biblical King of the South was no longer the empire of years ago. …

This year could start the beginning of the end for the internal combustion engine. Heck, The Economist gave the internal combustion engine an obituary this year in a recent cover story. And, according to Peter Holley at the Washington Post, “when future auto historians look back, they may pinpoint 2017 as the year electric vehicles went from a promising progressive fad to an industry-wide inevitability.” Holley points out a number of signposts surfacing this year that pose a threat to the diesel and gas-powered automobile. The internal combustion engine (ICE) may be onÂ… ummm, thin ice. So, as we look at the events unfolding this year, what indictors are contributing to…

The premier destination for Model 3 owners and enthusiasts, Model 3 Owners Club, left no stone unturned in their latest in-depth review of TeslaÂ’s mass market all-electric sedan. Co-hosts Trevor Page and Kenneth Bokor had the opportunity to spend a couple of days with a gorgeous Long Range Model 3 and out it through its paces, taking a deep look at virtually all of the vehicleÂ’s interior and exterior features. Details ranging from the mounting points for a Model 3 roof rack system and front license plate bracket, to a full interior tour that covers everything from Model 3Â’s window switches to speakers, the duo leaves nothing to the imagination. Page and Bokor go as fa…

Hota Industrial Manufacturing Co, a Taiwanese automotive components maker and long time parts supplier for Tesla, has reportedly been told to dial back its production of Model 3 components from 5,000 units per week in December to 3,000 per week. According to Taiwan’s Economic Daily, Hota Chairman Shen Kuo-jung said that the company has received a notice from Tesla indicating that it will temporarily reduce its December order quantity due to a “bottleneck” in production of Model 3. Hota has been a supplier of parts for Tesla’s Model S and Model X, but also began to supply components that are reported to be gears for Model 3 in May of this year. Though December orders have…

With all eyes on Model 3 production numbers ahead of Tesla’s third quarter earnings report thatÂ’s scheduled to be released on November 1, CEO Elon Musk is seemingly in celebration as he camps on the rooftop of the Gigafactory. Musk took to Twitter in the predawn hours of Thursday morning to share an Instagram photo of a “Campfire on the Gigafactory roof”. Garbed in his usual dark sports coat that covers a matching crewneck tee, Musk cheers his glass of whiskey while lip-synching to the lyrics of Johnny CashÂ’s “Ring of Fire” thatÂ’s heard playing in the background. “Whiskey, fire, sÂ’mores and JC” reads the caption to MuskÂ’s Instagram video posted at nearly 3 a.…

New York Times columnist and co-anchor of CNBC “Squawk Box”, Andrew Ross Sorkin, had an interesting yet borderline creepy exchange with a humanoid robot name Sophia. Capable of socializing with humans through artificial intelligence and augmented by the ability to make lifelike human facial expressions, Sophia demonstrated her abilities at the Future Investment Initiative in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday during a live interview with Sorkin. “I want to live and work with humans so I need to express the emotions to understand humans and build trust with people,” said Sophia when asked why it was so important to have an expressive face given that she was a robot. The Ha…

It didn’t come as a surprise when we found a job listing for a Barista on TeslaÂ’s careers page. CEO Elon Musk has long been a fan of caffeinated beverages, having once revealed in an interview that he consumed eight cans of Diet Coke each day, as well as several large cups of coffee at one point in his career. “I got so freaking jacked that I seriously started to feel like I was losing my peripheral vision,” said Musk in a 2007 interview with Inc. With a legion of mission-statement devout workers that are blind to the idea of a 40-hour work week, having a top notch Coffee Bar in the workplace almost seems like a must – and it is. Tesla posted a job opening for a …

The mass firing taking place at Tesla has reportedly spread into the solar-side of its business, with former and current SolarCity employees citing surprise dismissals taking place across U.S. offices. According to a report by CNBC, former employees of SolarCity speaking under condition of anonymity said they were let go because of performance reasons, but allege Tesla never conducted performance reviews since the company’s acquisition of the solar business in November 2016. Claims of performance-based dismissals without actual performance reviews being conducted echoes reports from earlier this month when ex-Tesla employees that were let go said the company was disguisi…

Patricia Cooper, SpaceX’s VP of Satellite Government Affairs, provided a statement to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation regarding SpaceXÂ’s broadband satellite constellation ambitions. Of note, Cooper reiterated on Wednesday that SpaceX intends to launch two prototype satellites into orbit within the next few months, and further suggested that an operational Starlink launch campaign is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2019. She also noted that the companyÂ’s initial ~4000 satellite constellation is meant to be launched over a space of five years, with limited service beginning in 2020 or 2021 once ~800 satellites have been placed in Low Ear…

Batteries power cell phones, laptops, and electric cars. Now, according to the Wall Street Journal, “Your next home could run on batteries. A combination of solar power and the rise of residential energy storage paves the way for a new kind of cable cutting” and Tesla could play a major role in it. It turns out that batteries coupled with solar power could completely transform the energy sector. ItÂ’s a bet Elon Musk is willing to make and itÂ’s one reason Tesla is changing the way we think about energy. TeslaÂ’s battery-powered cars get all the press. But TeslaÂ’s battery-powered homes can be a real game changer. “ThereÂ’s something ruggedly individualistic and inhere…

Tesla has revealed first photos of its solar and battery solution in Puerto Rico that’s being used to restore power to a childrenÂ’s hospital in San Juan. As Puerto Rico continues to recover from Hurricane Maria after the Category 4 storm destroyed nearly all of the islandÂ’s electrical infrastructure, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has pledged to work with officials on building microgrids aimed at solving Puerto RicoÂ’s energy crisis through the use of solar panels and the companyÂ’s Powerpack battery system. “The Tesla team has done this for many smaller islands around the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too.” said Musk earlier thi…

Tesla has reportedly signed a lease for a massive 131,000 square feet creative office facility that’s located in an area of Los Angeles best known as Silicon Beach. Surrounded by the tech hub of Playa Vista where technology giants including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, among a slew of emerging startups that have made Southern California their home, and Venice Beach that has given birth to unicorns like Tinder, The Honest Company, and Snapchat; TeslaÂ’s new location at 4755 Alla Road in Marina Del Rey gives the company presence in one of the hottest real estate markets on the westside. But itÂ’s not the locationÂ’s proximity to Silicon Beach that Tesla finds value in. …

With so much recent buzz about electric vehicle developments in China, one might have forgotten about the tremendous potential for EVs in Europe. European August year-over-year “EV sales grew by roughly 68%Â… [and] after eight months of the year, sales have now crossed the 180,000 mark.” according to InsideEVs. Furthermore, “Compared to the U.S., sales in Europe are around 34% higher, and have also been gaining at a higher rate of late.” Sales have also been helped along by a myriad of European government incentives. But what does this all mean for TeslaÂ’s future in the region? Although Tesla is the leading automaker for EVs in the US, thereÂ’s still ample opportunit…

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