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Elon Musk’s underground tunnel-digging enterprise, officially known as The Boring Company, has faced scrutiny over alleged worker safety violations in Nevada in recent years, according to a new report from Bloomberg Businessweek. And while no Boring Company workers have died in the state, the report highlights a number of issues ranging from long hours and a lack of personal protective equipment to “faulty machinery” and burns.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetThe Bloomberg report focuses heavily on a dig site that would…

Once considered to be the future of transportation, Hyperloop One is packing its bags. According to a report, the high-speed freight transportation company will shut down by the end of this year.Citing people familiar with the matter, a report by Bloomberg says that Hyperloop One has failed to win any contract to build a working hyperloop. The Los-Angeles-based firm completed the world's first passenger ride on a super high-speed levitating pod system in 2020.It will reportedly sell off its remaining assets and terminate…

Bastrop, Texas residents are pushing back against a permit that would allow Elon Musk’s infrastructure construction company, the Boring Co., to dump more than 140,000 gallons of treated wastewater a day into the nearby Colorado River.The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) held a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the company’s operational plans. County residents showed up in force, worried about how the private wastewater dumping will affect their health if something were to go wrong.The Boring Company, a…

The Boring Company’s test tunnel in Hawthorne, California. Image: Robyn Beck-Pool (Getty Images)After Elon Musk’s Boring Company received approval to construct one-lane tunnels in the bowels of Las Vegas last year, the company has recently submitted plans for an expansion that will bring a total of 65 miles (105 kilometers) of criss-crossing tunnels beneath the Nevada city.According to TechCrunch, Boring Company recently submitted a new map of the Las Vegas tunnels to the city government for approval last month. The…

Photo: Win McNamee (Getty Images)Tesla, Twitter, SpaceX, and Boring Company CEO Elon Musk is adding one more title to his resume: town owner. The multi-billionaire is reportedly working on building his own “utopia” in Texas and plans to name it Snailbrook.The Wall Street Journal reports that Musk plans to build the town outside of Austin near his Boring and SpaceX facilities which are currently under construction, according to the outlet. Facebook photos revealed the area already has a collection of modular homes, a…

Amid the continuing layoffs at Twitter, Elon Musk may have zeroed in on its new CEO -- Steve Davis who is a long-time associate of Musk and currently the CEO of The Boring Company.The Boring Company is an infrastructure and tunnel construction services company founded by Musk.According to Platformer, Davis came to Twitter as part of Musk's transition team last year.Musk had tasked Davis with cutting $500 million in costs but he ended up cutting nearly $1 billion.Read Also"His success in bringing costs down by any means…

Elon Musk has been mired in several court cases regarding his continued shepherding of Tesla, but the EV maker’s board still seem to support the billionaire. Photo: Kamran Jebreili (AP)Billionaire Elon Musk may be clutching his pearls a little tighter as a Delaware judge left serious doubt whether his multi-billion Tesla pay package was done without Musk’s intervention. In what was supposed to be the day of final arguments in a multi-year lawsuit at the Delaware Court of Chancery, Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick called for…

It’s not just your Twitter feed that’s suffering at the hands of Elon Musk. At least one of the billionaire’s other companies doesn’t seem to be doing so hot either. Tesla has entered a new hiring freeze, and plans to lay offan unspecified number of staff early in the coming year, according to a report from Electrek, attributed to an unnamed source. Back in June, Tesla announced an earlier “hiring pause” and forecast 10% staff cuts based on Musk’s “super bad feeling” about the economy. Following those reports, the…

Deep in Elon Musk’s Twitter replies are the likely hints of the flailing social media CEO’s next policy change. Twitter Blue subscribers, who pay the minimum $8 a month for the privilege of a “verified” checkmark and nebulous other perks like (maybe) fewer ads, will soon be the only ones allowed to vote in important polls, according to a Monday tweet from Musk. The suggestion came from a user in response to Musk’s poll asking all of Twitter if he should resign. And clearly, Musk liked @Unfilteredboss1's idea better than…

A courtroom sketch of Elon Musk as he worked to defend his $56 billion pay package he received from Tesla back in 2018.Illustration: Elizabeth Williams (AP)Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, Neuralink, and now Twitter, is a very busy man, or so he claims. He’s so busy, it’s hard to believe he can actually keep on top of everything going on at every one of his companies. That time management question is key to a current lawsuit that argues Musk doesn’t deserve the near $56 billion payment package Tesla…