(Reuters) – Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) board named a special committee of three directors on Tuesday to decide what to do about Chief Executive Elon Musk’s potential offer to take the electric carmaker private, although Musk has yet to make a… Continue Reading
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Major Tesla Inc shareholder, Fidelity Investments, cut its stake in the electric automaker by 21 percent during the second quarter, before Chief Executive Elon Musk announced his plan to take the company private earlier this month.… Continue Reading
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Spain’s top flight soccer division La Liga announced on Tuesday a landmark deal with Facebook which will allow viewers in the Indian sub-continent to watch every game over the next three seasons for free on the social… Continue Reading
Late Sunday night to early Monday morning will mark the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower, arguably the most popular and dramatic meteor shower around. An average 60 meteors per hour are expected to streak across the sky, a… Continue Reading
Early this month, news broke that Google was developing a mobile version of its search tool intended to comply with Chinese censorship rules. Senators and Google’s own staffers responded with anger at what some said was a betrayal of the… Continue Reading
David Marcus, the former head of Facebook’s Messenger team who now leads a blockchain-focused group within the social media giant, announced Friday that he would step down from his seat on the board of cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase. The move,… Continue Reading
When Samsung first launched its line of Galaxy Note smartphones, they were differentiated by their large size, their high performance, and their stylus pens. Now, as high-end smartphones all start to look, well, kind of the same, it’s harder for… Continue Reading
The distant future of designer babies might not seem so distant after all. The last year has been full of news about genetic engineering—much of it driven by the the cut-and-paste technique called Crispr. And at the top of the… Continue Reading
On June 15, 1991, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines blew its top in an eruption of staggering proportions. It sent an ash cloud 28 miles high, filling surrounding valleys with deposits 660 feet thick and destroying almost every bridge within… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Elon Musk is considering taking Tesla Inc private, the chief executive officer of the electric car maker tweeted on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk listens at a press conference following the first launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy… Continue Reading