WASHINGTON (TNND) — From U.S. fighter jets to submarines to cell phones to electric cars, the uses for rare earth minerals are widespread, which means the demand for them is as well. China’s announcement last week that it would impose severe restrictions on its rare earth minerals beginning Dec. 1 came as a shock, including…
Oct. 13 (UPI) — SpaceX on Monday launched the 11th flight test of its Starship, the two-stage, heavy-lift launch vehicle designed to take humans back to the moon and eventually to Mars. Liftoff was at 6:23 p.m. CT at the company’s Starbase compound in Texas near the Gulf of Mexico and about 20 miles from…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., in September. Kennedy said Thursday a link between circumcision and autism is “highly likely.” File Photo by Francis Chungg/UPI | License Photo Oct. 9 (UPI) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert, F. Kennedy…
Oct. 8 (UPI) — Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by four former Twitter executives, whom he fired after taking ownership of the social media site. The four executives were fired in 2022 after Musk purchased Twitter, which he renamed X, but they did not receive more than $128 million…
Oct. 8 (UPI) — Mike Bezos, father of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has appointed Chilean executive Valeria Alberola as the new CEO of his family office, Aurora Borealis, a Miami-based firm created in 2020 to manage the family’s estimated $40 million fortune. Alberola holds a degree in economics and business from the School of Economics…
A Tesla Model Y car is on display inside a new Tesla car showroom in Mumbai, India, in July. Some Elon Musk teasers on X seem to announce a new vehicle for Tuesday. File Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA Oct. 6 (UPI) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk made two posts on X that appear to tease…
Soybean farmers, such as the owners of the soybean field pictured in rural Iowa in 2019, may be in line for federal subsidies as a result of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on China. File Photo by Mike Theiler/UPI. | License Photo Oct. 5 (UPI) — Soybean farmers could be the recipients of between $10 billion…
Oct. 2 (UPI) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk‘s net worth reached $500 billion Wednesday, making him the first person to be worth half a trillion dollars. Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires list ranks him at No. 1, followed by Larry Ellison of Oracle, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Jeff Bezos of Amazon. Musk had a net worth…
Sept. 30 (UPI) — Elon Musk-owned xAI plans to launch a challenger to Wikipedia called “Grokipedia” that he said will be a big improvement over the popular open-source website. The site will be powered by the Grok AI chatbot and help xAI to better understand the world and the universe, Mint reported on Tuesday. Musk…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is renewing a push for the U.S. to change a decades-old phrase describing its stance on Taiwan independence, a concession that would be a major diplomatic win for Beijing. China has asked the Trump administration to officially declare that it “opposes” Taiwan independence, according to a person familiar with the matter,…