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Elon Musk Has Apparently Been Into Amber Heard For A Long Time
It must be weird being Amber Heard. The 30-year-old Austin native has been in the news a lot lately. Her separation from Johnny Depp—which was accompanied by an emergency restraining order in May—led...
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From the Archives: Can a New Generation of Texans Revive the Dream of Space...
Mission to MarsBy Katy Vine From “The Martian,” originally published in February 2018In a cavernous warehouse behind a strip mall about three miles from the Johnson Space Center, Franklin Chang Díaz...
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When SpaceX Rockets Take Flight (Or Blow Up), LabPadre Is Watching
When Elon Musk’s newest rocket erupted into a fireball last week, just as it returned to Earth from a brief journey into the heavens, Louis Balderas was a few miles away, contending with technical...
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Welcome to Texas, Elon Musk. You Don’t Have to Move to Austin.
Electric vehicle pioneer, aspiring Mars colonist, and part-time Twitter troll Elon Musk announced this month that he’s moving to Texas, and many in the tech world were shocked. Not us. Tesla CEO Musk...
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No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0
On the heels of last month’s remarkable migration of tech industry capital from California’s Bay Area to Austin, including an official relocation by $180 billion software company Oracle Corporation and...
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Californians Could Ruin Texas—But Not the Way You Might Think
Some 16,000 years ago, one theory holds, Homo sapiens crossed the Bering Strait and swiftly migrated down the West Coast of North America. Eventually, descendants of those early humans found their way...
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Is Randy Quaid Serious About Running for California Governor? His Tweet...
Although he was born and raised around Houston, Randy Quaid isn’t often mentioned in the pantheon of beloved Texas stars. That’s no reflection on his work: Quaid long ago cemented his Texan bona fides...
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Elon Musk Is Turning Boca Chica Into a Space-Travel Hub. Not Everyone Is...
Perhaps in the distant future historians in far-flung corners of the solar system will note that the twenty-first-century Texas space program did not get off to a particularly strong start. The first...
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Elon Musk Wants to Sell Texans Electricity
Elon Musk is about to become a Texas power broker—literally.The idiosyncratic serial entrepreneur who reinvented rocketry and juiced up the electric-car business has established a new subsidiary of...
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Why Tesla Is Moving to Texas
Elon Musk seemed strangely casual in dropping the biggest news to come out of Tesla’s virtual shareholder meeting on Thursday afternoon. Streaming from inside the so-called Gigafactory the company is...
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Everything We Know About Elon Musk’s Tesla Beer
Elon Musk has had a busy year so far: multiple SpaceX launches from Boca Chica, announcing Tesla headquarters’ move to Texas, hosting Saturday Night Live, and pumping up Dogecoin not quite to the moon....
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No Signs Yet of a Tech Texodus
In the ultra-competitive world of tech hiring, some employers are trying to recruit with this offer: Work for us, and you won’t have to work in Texas. That’s the idea behind a just-announced virtual...
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Will Elon Musk Austin-ify Brownsville?
The mural on the side of the old Capitol Theater building on the corner of Levee and Eleventh streets in downtown Brownsville isn’t exactly the sort of art that tends to court controversy. It’s pink,...
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This Elon Musk Superfan Keeps Eyes in the Sky Over Tesla’s New Texas Factory
Three days a week, Joe Tegtmeyer wakes up well before dawn, boots up his Tesla Model S, and makes a ninety-minute commute from his home in Bulverde, just north of San Antonio, to a dusty, windblown...
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Lucifer on the Sofa With Diamonds
There have been two moments in recent months in which images of cowboy hats appeared unannounced on my laptop screen atop decidedly unexpected heads. The first was last summer, after Jeff Bezos’s first...
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An Author Believed Elon Musk Would Benefit Brownsville. Not Anymore.
When I visited Brownsville on a breezy day back in February 2022, I drove to the SpaceX launchpad site, just meters from the Gulf of Mexico at Boca Chica, a beach on the city’s outskirts. I was shocked...
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Elon Musk Came to Texas to End the Oil Age
Beside a horseshoe bend in the Colorado River where ospreys and egrets hunt for fish, a few miles northeast of Austin’s airport, the largest factory in the world stretches the equivalent of fifteen...
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Can SpaceX Rocket Past Mattress Mack in Our Brand Bracket?
One is a self-promoting narcissist who pals around with far-right extremists, picks feuds with public officials, and has a cultlike following. The other owns Twitter and much of Tesla. Meet Jim...
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Two Texas Indie Developers Made It Big on Twitter a Decade Ago. Now They’re...
When Paul Haddad unfolded his laptop to start working after dinner on a Thursday evening in mid-January, he didn’t realize his life was about to be turned upside down. Haddad, the brainy cofounder of...
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The Texas Billionaire’s Guide to Befriending Clarence Thomas
Like many who grow up poor and achieve professional success, Clarence Thomas has cultivated a taste for the finer things in life—especially when gifted to him by the sort of folks to whom the Supreme...
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Texas Is Number One in Business! (Or Are We?)
On a recent Tuesday morning, as he presided over the ribbon cutting for a new golf resort in Frisco, Governor Greg Abbott sat on a dais behind a sign that read “CREATING JOBS.” Chief Executive magazine...
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Why Rich Guys Love Dressing Like Cartoon Cowboys
The humble cowboy hat, iconic though it may be, had simple origins. Philadelphia-based hatmaker John Batterson Stetson—that last name ought to be familiar—released, back in 1865, the “Boss of the...
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Has SXSW Lost Its Cool?
The music portion of South by Southwest has endured a tumultuous week. The festival, once an exemplar of cool, has seen artists pull out of their official showcase performances over the past few...
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Their Dream Was to Build an Organic Farm. Then Elon Musk Moved Into the...
When they learned that Elon Musk had purchased 280 acres of land a short drive from their organic farm, it seemed like a miracle. For more than a decade, husband and wife Skip Connett and Erin Flynn...
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At the World’s First Cybertruck Rodeo, Flamethrowers Are Toys and Winning Is...
They know you think they’re members of a personality cult and that their $100,000 truck looks like it was designed by a drunk toddler. They’ve seen the stories about their vehicles getting coal rolled...
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