5 h. ago Why does Elon Musk want to colonise Mars as SpaceX Starship completes launch?

Musk's huge Starship rocket has completed its 11th test launch.

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6 h. ago Be sure of this: many of the horrors the west allowed in Gaza will come closer to home | Owen Jones

History shows the crimes of empire were later mirrored on European soil. Dehumanisation and militarised terror both seem normalised nowIt’s clear what Israel’s western-facilitated genocide has done to Gaza. But what has it done to us? Palestinians are the “canaries in a coalmine”, the Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada tells me. “We’re screaming of a major warning of what’s about to come your way. When you have a media-political class that’s relishing, delighting in the murder of our children, do you think they’re going to care about yours?”There is a warning from our recent, terrifying past that we should heed. Colonialism, warned Martinican author Aimé Césaire, “works to decivilise the coloniser, to brutalise him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism”. The horrors of western imperialism – with its dehumanisation and violence – were, he argued, ultimately redirected into Europ...

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9 h. ago Watch: SpaceX sends 11th Starship rocket into space in successful test flight

Watch as SpaceX successfully sends its 11th Starship rocket into space from Texas.

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17 h. ago SpaceX launches 11th test flight of Elon Musk’s giant Starship rocket

Musk’s aerospace company wanted the rocket to make it halfway around the world while releasing mock satellites like last time

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25 h. ago Elon Musk demands Trump send US troops to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk said downtown San Francisco is ‘a drug zombie apocalypse’ as he called for the deployment of federal troops

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25 h. ago What do Musk, Microsoft’s CEO and the head of Zoom all have in common? The H

From Elon Musk and Satya Nadella to the co-founder of Moderna, it’s not just tycoons in Silicon Valley who have benefited from the controversial work visa now in Donald Trump’s crosshairs, writes Io Dodds

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25 h. ago Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Robinson allegedly failed to comply with officers who ‘became concerned’ by his behaviour at Channel TunnelTommy Robinson claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs, as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counter-terrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year.The far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon, refused to give police the pin for his phone because it had “journalistic material on it” after they stopped him at the Channel tunnel on 28 July 2024, a court heard. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Tommy Robinson ‘stopped by police at border in Bentley with thousands in cash’

He told police he would not give up the Pin for his phone because he did not want them to see his ‘journalist material’, a court heard.

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32 h. ago SpaceX to launch Starship today in crucial test of Elon Musk’s Mars plans

Starship Flight 11 follows several setbacks in 2025 that have delayed Nasa’s Moon mission

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51 h. ago Trump axes chief saboteur of Musk relationship in White House shakeup

Donald Trump has pushed out the chief saboteur of his relationship with Elon Musk from the White House.

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54 h. ago From the Dogefather to the Zoom founder: These are the US tech and business titans who came here on H

From Elon Musk and Satya Nadella to the co-founder of Moderna, it’s not just tycoons in Silicon Valley who have benefited from the controversial work visa now in Donald Trump’s crosshairs, writes Io Dodds

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3 d. ago Bari Weiss goes full Elon Musk, demands CBS News staffers tell her ‘how you spend your working hours’

‘We’re all being DOGE’d,’ a CBS News journalist told The Independent. ‘And she’s also looking out to see who will kiss up to her.’

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4 d. ago Elon Musk’s Neuralink says 10,000 patients have signed up for its brain chip

Tech billionaire wants to use implants to ‘achieve a sort of symbiosis with artificial intelligence’

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4 d. ago Tesla investigated after crashes involving feature that Musk has boasted about

There were several reports of injuries from crashes involving the full self-driving function on Teslas

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5 d. ago Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are falling to Earth at an alarming rate

An average of one to two Starlink satellites are deorbiting each day in 2025

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5 d. ago Elon Musk reaches settlement with fired Twitter executives over multi

Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and other ex-executives sued Musk in March 2024 for the severance they believed they were owed

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6 d. ago Elon Musk's 'space train' of Starlink satellites shown in 'coolest' clip

The richest man in world's Starlink satellites were captured by astronaut Don Pettit from the International Space Station 257 miles above the Earth. It dubbed one of the 'coolest' space clips

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6 d. ago Tesla unveils 'Standard' Model Y and Model 3 that are $5k cheaper in bid to revive dwindling sales

It comes following years of promises from Elon Musk to debut a cheaper car to appeal to more cost-conscious customers.

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6 d. ago Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous creator reacts to outrage over same

Old episode of Netflix’s animated series left conservatives, including Elon Musk, furious

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7 d. ago Jane Goodall’s biting ‘Last Words’ wish before dying would send Musk, Trump and Netanyahu on a SpaceX flight out of here

Goodall said she wished to put people she didn’t like on one of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s spaceships and ‘send them all off to the planet he’s sure he’s going to discover’

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