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First space tourist, japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa

First rocket tourist named

The first private tourist to travel on the SpaceX trip around the moon has been named as Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa.

Thai cave diver sues Musk

Diver who helped rescue 12 youth soccer players from a Thai cave sues Elon Musk for $104,000 for calling him a ’pedo’ on Twitter.

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The launch of Telesat's Telstar 18 Vantage communications satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launched from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, is viewed from Minutemen Causeway in Cocoa Beach, early Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. Photo is a 145-second time exposure of the launch with life guard station in the foreground. (Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today via AP)

Musk signs up first moon tourist

Elon Musk’s SpaceX says it has booked its first private round-the-moon passenger but provided no countdown to lift-off.

Andy Pasztor

Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared to smoke marijuana during a lengthy interview with comedian Joe Rogan that covered topics ranging from the dangers of artificial intelligence to the CEO's use of Twitter. PHOTO: THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE

Can CEOs survive smoking pot?

Elon Musk isn’t the first CEO to smoke weed. Whether or not it’s bad for business and reputation depends largely on their company culture.

Vanessa Fuhrmans

Shares tumbled after the interview was broadcast.

Musk ‘smokes weed’, shares fall

Tesla CEO appears to smoke marijuana during rambling live interview as friends ask him: ‘What the hell are you doing?’

Tim Higgins

Markets

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 19, 2017 Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, speaks during the International Space Station Research and Development Conference in Washington, DC. Musk will only get paid if the company's stock soars but would receive a stunning sum if it does, according to a plan approved by shareholders on march 21, 2018. A Tesla spokesperson confirmed that shareholders voted to approve the proposal for a multi-billion-dollar, 10-year performance stock award

‘Textbook case of fraud’

Lawsuit alleges Elon Musk tried to manipulate the price of Tesla shares to hurt the short-sellers he rails against.

The Times

FILE- In this June 24, 2018, file photo Tesla CEO and founder of the Boring Company Elon Musk speaks at a news conference in Chicago. While Tesla grapples with internal issues like production delays, a sometimes-erratic CEO and a recent about-face on whether to go private, its rivals are moving aggressively into the luxury electric vehicle space. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Musk’s Tesla and Twitter troubles

Belligerence on social media is just one example of the increasingly erratic behaviour of electric car billionaire Elon Musk.

Simon Duke

Tesla workers assembled cars at the company’s factory in Fremont, Calif., last year. Tesla has sold about 140,000 cars since 2008 and is aiming to churn out a million a year by the end of 2020. PHOTO: DAVID BUTOW/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES

Tesla’s problem back in spotlight

It’s back to ‘manufacturing hell’ for Elon Musk.

Tim Higgins

(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 23, 2017 CEO Elon Musk listens to US President Donald Trump speak during a meeting with business leaders in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC. - Tesla Motors dropped in early trading on August 20, 2018 due to rising doubts about Chief Executive Elon Musk's plans to take the electric carmaker private. Shares fell 2.6 percent to $297.55 about 20 minutes into trading, continuing the company's downward trajectory after Musk surprised markets on August 7 by announcing on Twitter he wanted to take Tesla private. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP)

Backflip dents Musk credibility

Tesla shares slipped and analysts pondered the damage to Elon Musk after he dropped plans to take the carmaker private.

Tim Higgins

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 22, 2018 SpaceX, Tesla and The Boring Company founder Elon Musk speaks at the 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition, in Hawthorne, California. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk said August 7, 2018 he would remain CEO of the electric automaker even if it ceases to be publicly traded. Trading in the company's shares were suspended mid-afternoon following Musk's suggestion that it could go private. Before that, they had surged by more than seven percent.

Public bravado, private doubts

What happened after one Elon Musk tweet lit the fuse on an abortive, $US70bn scramble to take Tesla private.

Liz Hoffman and Tim Higgins

In this Friday, July 6, 2018, photograph, prospective customers confer with sales associates as a Model 3 sits on display in a Tesla showroom in the Cherry Creek Mall in Denver. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, in a paper titled â€œReality Check,â€ issued the warning Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, after testing five of the systems from Tesla, Mercedes, BMW and Volvo on a track and public roads. The systems tested, in the Tesla Model 3 and Model S, BMWâ€™s 5-Series, the Volvo S-90 and the Mercedes E-Class, are among the best in the business right now and have been rated â€œsuperiorâ€ in previous IIHS tests. David Zuby, the instituteâ€™s chief research officer, said the systems do increase safety but the tests show they are not 100 percent reliable. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Why Elon Musk changed his mind

As days passed, Elon Musk’s misgivings about taking Tesla private grew.

Liz Hoffman and Tim Higgins

Inquirer

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk reveals the Tesla Energy Powerwall Home Battery during an event in Hawthorne, California April 30, 2015. Tesla Motors Inc unveiled Tesla Energy - a suite of batteries for homes, businesses and utilities - a highly-anticipated plan to expand its business beyond electric vehicles. REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon - GF10000079519

Musk’s dive into PR disaster

A nouveau-riche ideas man with a warm heart but thin skin, Elon Musk has a big reputation for burning other people’s money.

Graham Lloyd

Elon Musk has called a British rescuer a pedo.

‘He’s just a PR stunt merchant’

The British cave diver at the centre of a bizarre attack says he hasn’t ruled out taking legal action against Elon Musk.

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A picture created to go with Overington's piece on Elon Musk.

Stick it where it hurts, Musk told

British diver involved in Thai cave rescue tips a bucket on Elon Musk’s mini submarine, saying he had no idea what he was doing.

(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 29, 2017 Billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the 68th International Astronautical Congress 2017 in Adelaide. Bases on the moon and Mars could help preserve human civilization and hasten its regeneration on earth in the event of a third world war, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, said on March 11, 2018. Musk, the founder of rocket and spacecraft company SpaceX, said the company's interplanetary ship could begin test flights as soon as next year. There is

It’s Elon Musk who needs help

He swoops into global crises like a real-life Tony Stark, but in the place where it really counts, Elon Musk is spread alarmingly thin.

John D. Stoll

CommentOpinion

Go home, Elon Musk

Isn’t there something a little stinky about a man who uses the plight of trapped children to market his rockety devices?

Caroline Overington

Divers test the device in a pool in Los Angeles. Picture: Elon Musk/ Supplied

Musk offers to fly in sub

Elon Musk has shown the world images of a rigid cylindrical “mini-sub” he hoped could still be useful in the cave rescue.

Paige Taylor

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FILE- In this June 14, 2018, file photo, Tesla CEO and founder of the Boring Company Elon Musk speaks at a news conference in Chicago. Tesla is suing a former employee at its Nevada battery factory alleging that he hacked into the manufacturing computers and disclosed confidential trade secrets. The federal lawsuit filed Wednesday, June 20, contends that Martin Tripp of Sparks, Nev., also made false claims to the media about information he stole, including claims that the company used punctured battery cells in the Model 3 electric car. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Musk touts his micro-sub

Elon Musk has released footage of tests in a swimming pool for a small submarine he says could save the boys trapped in a cave.

Paige Taylor

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Musk’s offer to save boys

Elon Musk has offered to help Thai authorities rescue the soccer team stuck deep inside a cave using his water pump and battery technology.

Charlie Peel

TOPSHOT - The NASA/German Research Centre for Geosciences GRACE Follow-On spacecraft launch onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Tuesday, May 22, 2018, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The mission will measure changes in how mass is redistributed within and among Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land and ice sheets, as well as within Earth itself. GRACE-FO is sharing its ride to orbit with five Iridium NEXT communications satellites as part of a commercial rideshare agreement. / AFP PHOTO / NASA / Bill INGALLS / == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT:

Planetary pit-stop for Musk

SpaceX has indicated it won’t launch a pair of space tourists to loop around the moon this year as previously announced.

Andy Pasztor

Too much stupidity for rule by AI

Elon Musk can’t be wrong about artificial intelligence, can he?

Allan Waddell

Motoring

Elon Musk has released new pricing for the Telsa Model 3

‘Do not buy this car’

Why did influential US magazine Consumer Reports decline to give Elon Musk’s Tesla Model 3 a recommended buy rating?

Harvard Business ReviewOpinion

Workers assemble a vehicle at a Changan Ford plant in Harbin China. Ford Motor Co. joined with Changan Automobile to operate the plant in China, as Beijing requires foreign companies to form joint ventures with domestic firms within the country. China’s rules requiring foreign companies to form joint ventures with domestic partners are among the chief targets of the Trump administration’s looming tariffs against Chinese imports. jpg

The factory of the future

Tomorrow’s factories will need better processes, not just better robots.

Ron Harbour and Jim Schmidt

News

Billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the 68th International Astronautical Congress 2017 in Adelaide on September 29, 2017. Musk said his company SpaceX has begun serious work on the BFR Rocket as he plans an Interplanetary Transport System. / AFP PHOTO / PETER PARKS

‘Your questions are killing me’

Grilled on Tesla, a testy Elon Musk complained of “boring, bonehead questions”, sending its shares tumbling | LISTEN

Tim Higgins

Tesla posts loss, burns cash

Elon Musk’s Tesla, struggling to ramp up production of its Model 3 sedan, burned through cash at a greater rate than expected.

Tim Higgins

CUT & PASTECut & Paste

Turnbull still has that glow

And SpaceX’s Elon Musk lays out the vision for his Mars colony. It looks like Switzerland.

Life

This image from video provided by SpaceX shows the company's spacesuit in Elon Musk's red Tesla sports car which was launched into space during the first test flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. (SpaceX via AP)

Worthy ambitions

There is both celebration and concern over the mega-rich’s audacious ventures to improve the world.

THE ECONOMIST

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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, February 8, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

‘Libs as sullied as Barnaby’

What our readers had to say on Barnaby’s baby-mama, the Albo ascension and Elon Musk’s space oddity.

Jason Gagliardi