Before there was TikTok, there was Vine. In 2012, Twitter purchased the prototype short-form video sharing platform for $30 million. Five years later, the app that launched a thousand memes was shut down. Now, Elon Musk—who purchased and rebranded Twitter in 2022—has announced that the Vine video archive will be restored after staff at the…
Elon Musk made donations totaling $15 million to three super PACs supporting Donald Trump and the Republicans after his very public falling out with the president, but all before he announced his plans for the new “America Party.” Newsweek reached out to the White House and Musk via X, SpaceX, and Tesla for comment by…
India has officially cleared the way for Elon Musk’s Starlink to beam internet from space. The satellite broadband arm of SpaceX has been granted a licence to launch services in the country, a move that claims to connect some of India’s most remote regions. According to a Press Trust of India (PTI) report, Starlink’s highspeed…
Elon Musk-led Tesla to pay $243 mn in Florida crash case A federal jury in Miami has ruled that Tesla must pay over $200 million in damages after finding its Autopilot driver-assist technology was partly responsible for a fatal 2019 crash that killed 22-year-old Naibel Benavides Leon and severely injured Dillon Angulo in Florida.The jury…
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, donated $15 million to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, days before he called for the formation of a third party. Musk made the donations in late June. The donations were disclosed in the campaign finance reports of the pro-Trump MAGA Inc., Senate Leadership Fund, and Congressional Leadership…
Elon Musk has so many Starlink satellites circling the planet China’s military thinks it’s time to fight fire — with lasers. Literally. Chinese scientists floated a long list of Starlink countermeasures in publicly available research papers. One of the more dramatic suggestions? Equipping stealth submarines with space-firing lasers to shoot down Musk’s low-orbit satellite network….
Billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump tried to take a chainsaw to federal government spending, but it turns out they actually wasted tens of billions of taxpayer dollars. The Department of Government Efficiency generated some $21.7 billion in waste across the federal government in the first six months of the year, according to a…
The Simpsons’ creator, Matt Groening, hinted that the longest-running animated sitcom will continue well beyond its upcoming 37th season. Appearing at San Diego Comic-Con, the 71-year-old cartoonist said, “I really thought 36 was where we were going to stop it. But there’s no ending in sight. We’re going to keep going until someone dies.” According…
Published on August 1, 2025 Booming tech stocks lifted the fortunes of eight of the world’s top 10 wealthiest. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang hit a high mark. Here are the richest people in the world, right now. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is now the xxxx Key Takeaways Elon Musk is the richest person in the world,…
The White House is reportedly working to remove traces of Elon Musk’s influence from the government agency that housed DOGE. President Donald Trump appointed a new leader, Mike Rigas, at the General Services Administration earlier this month, stacking him above the former acting administrator, Musk-aligned tech entrepreneur Stephen Ehikian. That move was reportedly part of…