The #Innovation Daily - Everything Elon Musk @elonmusk

Not a day goes by when the human headline, the purveyor of non-stop brain bombs, gives us something worth sharing. Today's edition of the The Innovation Daily is dedicated to the man, Elon Musk. Here are the big things worth watching and reading. Thanks in advance to Elon Musk @elonmusk

VIDEO: Elon Musk Interview 2017 | TEDTalk

Entrepreneur Elon Musk is a man with many plans. The founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX sit down with TED curator Chris Anderson to share details about his visionary projects, which include a mass-marketed electric car, a solar energy leasing company, and a fully reusable rocket.

If you missed this its worth stopping and watching before reading further...

10 Things We Learned About Tunnels And Tesla From Elon Musk's TED Interview

Elon Musk is the head of a spaceflight company, an electric car manufacturer / solar energy effort, and a brain-computer interface project. Recently, though, he added a tunnel boring company to that already crowded plate. This past weekend he spoke about The Boring Company, as he’s calling it, for the first time in public with Chris Anderson, the curator for TED Talks.

It wasn’t a hard-hitting interview — while Anderson got Musk to share some details about the tunneling project, he also teed up many of the billionaire CEO’s favorite talking points, and his followups were often “whoa” or “wow.” You can watch the full video above, but here are our 10 biggest takeaways from the conversation. Read more...

Tesla’s Solar Roofs Will Be Cheaper Than Regular Roofs & Have “Infinity Warranty”

Elon Musk announced via Twitter that orders would begin today (May 10th, 2017) for his revolutionary solar roof hardware. In another tweet, he promised that ordering would be available in most countries throughout the world. He also clarified that people could expect to see delivery begin in the United States in late 2017, and that deliveries would roll out sometime next year for overseas locations.

But another announcement just came in that’s even more revolutionary: The solar roofs will have an infinity warranty. Read more...

Simple Math Is Why Elon Musk’s Companies Keep Doing What Others Don’t Even Consider Possible

Whether it’s reaching Mars or boring tunnels through the earth, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX loves to talk about basic math. On investor calls and press conferences, Musk often muses on the addition, subtraction and multiplication of what he’s trying to do.

Musk runs the numbers at the TED conference on April 28. (Bret Hartman / TED)

Take The Boring Company, Musk’s latest “hobby” aimed at banishing Los Angeles’ snarled traffic. On Apr 28, at a TED conference, Musk explained his proposal to deploy continuous tunnel-boring machines that link cities through a network of deep underground tunnels. The company’s promotional video shows vehicles zipping along city streets before stopping on car-sized elevators built into the pavement. Underground tracks whisk them off to their destination at speeds of more than 130 miles per hour (200 kilometers per hour) before depositing them back at the surface to finish the last leg of their journey. He wants to do all this for one-tenth of today’s costs compared to the estimated $1 billion per mile price tag for Los Angeles’ new subway extension. Read more...

Brilliant Career Advice From Elon Musk's Latest TED Interview, In One Sentence

Spearheading the sustainable energy movement. Attempting to solve rush hour traffic. Exploring the unknown regions of outer space. Responding to fans (and critics) on social media.

To say billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is keeping busy would surely be an understatement.

Nevertheless, Musk took some time out of his monster schedule to share updates on his latest projects at the most recent TED conference — and in the process he shared some brilliant career advice. Read more...

Apple Doesn't Want To Work With Tesla On A Car

Plentyofpeople have proposed the idea that Apple should buy cash-strapped Tesla and collaborate on an electric car. But no such plans are in the works, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during the company’s first-quarter earnings call Wednesday.

When asked whether Tesla had considered some kind of collaboration with Apple, Musk said Apple isn’t interested.

“Yeah I don’t think they want to have that conversation,” Musk said. “I’ve at least not heard any indication that they do.”

The prospect may be fresh in analysts’ minds now that Apple appears to have made strides in its own car plans. The tech behemoth received an autonomous driving permit from the California DMV in April. Read more...

Elon Musk Can't Stop Throwing Shade At Apple

The billionaire doesn’t seem to think too highly of Tim Cook’s efforts to develop a self-driving car.

Tesla, the electric-car company founded by Elon Musk, may be crushing Detroit and worth nearly $50 billion, but it’s hardly in the same league as Apple, the world’s most valuable public company. Still, that doesn’t mean that Musk is fazed by his bigger tech rival—and he’s decidedly unimpressed by its efforts to develop an autonomous vehicle.

“I don't know what they're doing on the car front,” Musk said on an earnings call Wednesday when an investor asked whether he’d consider partnering with Apple on self-driving cars, or whether he sees the company as a competitor. “It's not clear.” But Musk, who admitted he owns an iPhone, did offer up some faint praise. “It's a cool company,” he added. Read more...

Elon Musk Wants to Connect Your Brain to the Internet. Here's Why That's Both Scary and Brilliant

Elon Musk envisions a world where brain-to-tech interfacing rewrites virtually every rule, and whether that's "bad" or "good" is a big grey area.

Elon Musk didn't get where he is by going after "safe" ideas--his willingness to take on risk and tackle projects that push boundaries is exactly what has made him one of America's leading entrepreneurs and earned him a spot on President Donald Trump's Economic Advisory Council. But Neuralink, Musk's latest venture, might be his most profoundly influential project ever. The company is developing an implantable brain-to-computer interface that would blur the line between humans and tech. Here's why you should be concerned--and unabashedly hopeful. Read more...

Elon Musk And U.S. Tech Giants Tell Trump Not To Ditch The Paris Climate Agreement

Elon Musk and other titans of the U.S. tech sector are urging President Donald Trump not to pull the United States out of a landmark climate change accord.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO signed an open letter expressing "strong support" for keeping the U.S. in the Paris Climate Agreement. The letter, which ran as a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, lists 30 executives from some of the world's biggest and most influential companies, including Virgin Group, General Electric, Walt Disney Co., and Coca-Cola. Read More...

VIDEO: Elon Musk's Boring Company

Elon's "Boring Company" released a concept video of a car bypassing city traffic through a series of underground tunnels he intends to build.

VIDEO: The Future Of Elon Musk's Businesses

Elon Musk - Full interview - Code Conference May 2017