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TLDR: Microsoft vs. Slack, high-tech Nike store, Elon Musk wants to help Flint

Today’s featured stories Microsoft unveils free version of Teams productivity tool, upping the ante against rival Slack ‘Not like Amazon… Read More

Elon Musk, Semi and Roadster

Elon Musk announces 9 percent job cut at Tesla in ‘difficult’ drive for profitability

Just days after promising he’d make Tesla profitable within months, CEO Elon Musk announced today that 9 percent of the… Read More

TLDR: Elon Musk gets emotional at Tesla’s shareholder meeting, Microsoft’s underwater data center, Amazon’s $200 Echo Look

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check… Read More

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Tesla turns back challenges at annual meeting, and Elon Musk bares his soul

Tesla shareholders at today’s annual meeting swatted down challenges to billionaire CEO Elon Musk, who laid out an admittedly optimistic… Read More

Starman game

Control Elon Musk’s SpaceX ‘Starman’ in quest to blow up Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos in video game

It’s the Friday before a three-day weekend, and your head is probably already in the clouds, so here’s something to… Read More

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Geared Up Podcast: Mysterious new smartphone from camera maker Red and getting hyped for the Tesla Model 3

The Geared Up Giveaway is back! We’re giving Geared Up subscribers the chance to win an Oculus Go headset. See… Read More

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Elon Musk berates media critics and vows to create ‘Pravda’ news rating website

Elon Musk’s Tesla electric-car and power company has been getting some bad press lately, and today the tech billionaire pushed… Read More

Elon Musk and Tesla

Tesla stock goes through twists and turns as analysts focus on Model 3 car outlook

Tesla’s share price took a weird turn today after the company reported its first-quarter financial results and billionaire CEO Elon… Read More

Elon Musk, "bankwupt."

Elon Musk turns Tesla’s troubles into April Fools’ joke — but flamethrowers are real

Between Model S recalls and Model 3 production snags, Tesla has been having a hard time lately — but not as… Read More

Elon Musk axes Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX (after finding out they’re there)

Facebook suffered another blow today: Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, had those two companies’ official pages… Read More

Amazon HQ

Amazon holds top spot in brand reputation survey for third straight year; Apple, Google see big drops

At least one tech giant is keeping customers happy. Amazon maintained the top spot for the third consecutive year in… Read More

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Elon Musk Q&A: First Mars spaceship is being built, with flight tests set for 2019

SpaceX is building its first Mars transport vehicle, also known as the BFR, and “making good progress” toward short-hop test… Read More

Tesla Semi trucks

Elon Musk enlists Tesla’s all-electric Semi trucks to ship Tesla’s battery packs

“Eat Your Own Dog Food” is an aphorism referring to the Microsoft tradition of using its own software products, but it… Read More

Former Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid on the rise of ‘invisible’ tech, robotics, AI, and Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH — So much has changed, in this city and in the technology world, since Rick Rashid arrived in 1979… Read More

Starman

Watch ‘Starman’ drift: SpaceX’s Tesla reaches the ultimate cruising altitude and rides off into space

This might be the ultimate space oddity. High above his home planet, where millions of people are no doubt sitting… Read More

Tesla Roadster

A car for Mars: Elon Musk shows Tesla Roadster revving up for Falcon Heavy liftoff

After a flurry of speculation, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is showing off his midnight cherry-red Tesla Roadster sports car as… Read More

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Podcast

Week in Geek Podcast: Elon Musk’s race to Mars takes some unexpected turns

Depending on how you see it, Elon Musk is either an innovative genius building the future of mankind or a… Read More

Falcon Heavy launch

Yes, Elon Musk will launch Tesla Roadster to Mars orbit on SpaceX Falcon Heavy

Update: After a bit of back and forth, SpaceX is confirming that the Roadster to Mars is a real payload, and that it… Read More

Tesla battery bank

Australia powers up Tesla’s monster battery, with bigger boosts to come

South Australia’s state government turned on the switch for the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery today, marking a signal achievement for… Read More

Tesla Powerpacks

Tesla’s Elon Musk is thankful for beating deadline to build Australian mega-battery

It’s a rare day when Tesla CEO Elon Musk actually finishes a job before the deadline, but that’s what happened… Read More

Elon Musk, Semi and Roadster

Surprise! Elon Musk unveils Tesla Semi truck – plus a remade Roadster that’s beyond ludicrous

Tesla CEO Elon Musk rode in with revelations about his company’s all-electric Semi truck, but walked off with an even… Read More

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Elon Musk frets about love life (and sheds a few tears) in Rolling Stone interview

Elon Musk may know how to get to Mars with SpaceX, and how to revolutionize the transportation industry with Tesla… Read More

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Tesla stock drops amid reports of bigger losses and Model 3 production snags

Tesla share prices declined 5 percent in after-hours trading today, due to a grimmer-than-expected quarterly report that highlighted snags in… Read More

Elon Musk’s tweets about a solar rescue plan spark interest from Puerto Rico

A Twitter conversation about beefing up Puerto Rico’s hurricane-hit power grid with solar power and heavy-duty batteries is turning into… Read More

Elon Musk and Tesla

Tesla posts better-than-expected quarterly results with Model 3 car in the spotlight

Tesla’s Model 3 electric car was the focus of today’s chatter in the wake of the company’s quarterly earnings report,… Read More

Elon Musk and Tesla Model 3

Elon Musk kicks off deliveries of Tesla Model 3 cars and vows to pick up the pace

As thousands of employees and fans cheered, Tesla CEO Elon Musk drove a red Model 3 electric car onto the… Read More

Elon Musk on how our cars will drive us – and how AI could threaten us – by 2037

In the year 2037, non-autonomous vehicles will be as much of a curiosity as riding a horse is today, tech… Read More

Tesla Model 3 car

Elon Musk shows off the first official Tesla Model 3 car in a tweet – and it’s his

The hundreds of thousands of customers who have plunked down deposits for the mass-market Tesla Model 3 electric car are… Read More

Tesla battery system and wind farm

Elon Musk touts Tesla’s plan to build the world’s biggest battery in just 100 days

One hundred megawatts. That’s how much electrical power the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery system will store when Tesla builds it… Read More

Tesla Model 3

Elon Musk says Tesla Model 3 car will debut this week, with quick ramp-up ahead

Tesla’s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk, says the first production model of the company’s anxiously awaited mass-market Model 3 electric car… Read More

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