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Elon Musk Hosts AI Fashion Show Featuring World Leaders—Putin’s Outfit Will Have You Laughing | ABP LIVE

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently shared a video on the social media platform X, captioned as "AI Fashion Show." The video features an AI-generated fashion show showcasing several world leaders, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The footage humorously depicts these prominent figures in a variety of unusual and extravagant outfits, highlighting the creative and often amusing possibilities of artificial intelligence in fashion. Musk's post has generated significant buzz online, with viewers reacting to the humorous portrayal of global leaders in a new and unexpected light. The video underscores AI's potential for creativity and entertainment. Source link
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China comes up with attack plan for Elon Musk’s Starlink-like satellites – Times of India

China's People Liberation Army has deployed its submarine with a laser weapon installed in its midsection to counter military threats to Beijing including Elon Musk's Starlink which has been covering the space above the Earth with its satellites.According to the South China Morning Post, China can destroy SpaceX’s Starlink satellites if China’s security is at risk.In a study by People’s Liberation Army (PLA) scientists led by Wang Dan, a professor with the Naval Submarine Academy, said that for anti-satellite missions, the biggest challenge was not hitting the satellite, but hiding the attack as missile launches are often accompanied by long trails of smoke.“Taking the satellites launched by the Starlink programme as an example, they are numerous, densely packed, and small in size, maki...
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Kamala Harris Faces Flak From Elon Musk, Billionaire Vinod Khosla Calls For ‘Open Convention’

Joe Biden, the 81-year-old US president and a leading Democratic contender, on Monday announced his withdrawal from the upcoming November elections. This has made way for Vice President Kamala Harris to be the top contender for the top job. Elon Musk, who is a vocal supporter of Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump, went all out on his criticism of Harris, trolling the 59-year-old attorney with jokes in his signature goofy style with tweets and retweets on X.  Imagine 4 years of this … https://t.co/gFwWAv15Qx — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 22, 2024 𝕏 is a meme goldmine rn https://t.co/b7D94HkajZ — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 21, 2024 What Did Vinod Khosla Post? A public dispute also erupted between Indian-American b...
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Watch: Obama, Biden, Putin, PM Modi walking the ramp in AI fashion show shared by Elon Musk – Times of India

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday shared an AI-generated video that featured a virtual fashion show with prominent political figures including US President Joe Biden, former US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and US Vice President Kamala Harris. The video showcased each leader in unique, futuristic attire as they walked down a digital runway.In the post sharing the video, Musk said, "high time for an AI fashion show."The video began with Pope Francis dressed in a white puffer coat that resembled a luxurious winter garment, cinched at the waist with a gold belt.He carried a large, ornate cross in one hand and a holy water sprinkler in the other. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was featured in the AI fashion video wearing a vibrant, multi-colored ensemble. The outfit includ...
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X Chief Elon Musk Congratulates PM Modi On Becoming ‘Most Followed World Leader’

Tesla CEO and X chief (formerly known as Twitter) Elon Musk congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on becoming the most followed world leader on microblogging site X.  He tweeted: "Congratulations PM Narendra Modi on being the most followed world leader." Congratulations PM @NarendraModi on being the most followed world leader! — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 19, 2024 This comes after PM Modu crossed 100 million followers on X, becoming the most followed incumbent world leader on the site. Expressing gratitude, the PM posted on X on July 14: "A hundred million on X. Happy to be on this vibrant medium and cherish the discussion, debate, insights, people’s blessings, constructive criticism and more. Looking forward to an equally engaging time ...
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How will Nasa and SpaceX dispose of the retired space station? – Times of India

SpaceX has been tasked with the responsibility of deorbiting the International Space Station once it reaches the end of its operational life. The company, in collaboration with Nasa, announced on Wednesday their strategy to safely dispose of the colossal orbiting laboratory by guiding it into a controlled reentry and ultimately plunging the remnants into the ocean.The target date for this mission is set for early 2031, coinciding with the station's 32nd anniversary in space.After considering various alternatives, such as disassembling the station and returning its components to Earth or transferring ownership to another entity, Nasa determined that the most viable option was to decommission the ISS through a controlled deorbit. To accomplish this complex task, the space agency awarded S...
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How will Nasa and SpaceX dispose of the retired space station? – Times of India

SpaceX has been tasked with the responsibility of deorbiting the International Space Station once it reaches the end of its operational life. The company, in collaboration with Nasa, announced on Wednesday their strategy to safely dispose of the colossal orbiting laboratory by guiding it into a controlled reentry and ultimately plunging the remnants into the ocean.The target date for this mission is set for early 2031, coinciding with the station's 32nd anniversary in space.After considering various alternatives, such as disassembling the station and returning its components to Earth or transferring ownership to another entity, Nasa determined that the most viable option was to decommission the ISS through a controlled deorbit. To accomplish this complex task, the space agency awarded S...
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Elon Musk Slams New York Times, CNN. Claims 2 Assassination Attempts On Himself In Past Months

Former US President and 2024 Republican candidate Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, US on Saturday. The assailant fired three shots, one of which allegedly grazed Trump's right ear. Trump was swiftly transported to a nearby hospital for treatment. The incident occurred just days before Trump is set to accept the Republican Party’s presidential nomination for the upcoming election. In the aftermath, Trump's odds of winning the elections rose to around 70 per cent, as per several analyses. This was particularly bolstered by prominent supporters voicing their endorsement of Trump, including the billionaire boss of X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk. I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rap...
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Elon Musk Fully Endorses ‘President Trump’ After The Assassination Bid On US Presidential Candi

Former US President and the current presidential candidate Donald Trump was attacked while he was addressing a rally in the Butler area of Pennsylvania. Gunshots were heard during the rally and Trump after the assassination attempt said that the bullet 'pierced' the upper part of his right ear. X owner Elon Musk while reacting to this bid said that he fully endorses 'President Trump' and he hopes for Trump's rapid recovery. Musk did not stop there, he went on to praise Trump and compared him with Theodore Roosevelt. In further tweets, he said, "Last time America had a candidate this tough was Theodore Roosevelt." I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery pic.twitter.com/ZdxkF63EqF — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 13, 2024 So...
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Elon Musk Donates ‘Sizable Amount’ To PAC For Donald Trump’s Campaign Ahead Of US Elections: Re

X owner Elon Musk has donated a sizable amount of money to a low-profile group called America PAC that works to elect Donald Trump to the White House in the upcoming US Presidential elections. As per several reports, the people who are close to the matter have said that the donated amount is unclear but it is a significant one. The organisation will be disclosing the list of its donors coming July 15. Musk has probably done this act to make his imprint on the political landscape of the US. This move of Musk is quite interesting because earlier he had said that he wished to stay out of politics. However, even prior to this, it has been observed that Musk's views lean towards the right and he has often been seen assailing the Democrats. Now, this financial...
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Elon Musk makes ‘sizable’ donation to group supporting Trump’s 2024 Presidency bid: Report – Times of India

Elon Musk, the billionaire known for his increasing criticism of President Joe Biden, has made a substantial donation to political group working to elect Biden's rival in the upcoming presidential election Donald Trump, according to a Bloomberg report. The exact amount of the donation was not disclosed, but it was described as "a sizable amount." The political group America PAC is required to reveal its list of donors on July 15.In March, Trump, who is expected to be officially nominated as the Republican Party's candidate for the November 5 election, had a meeting with Musk and other wealthy donors. Following reports of the meeting, Musk posted on X, "Just to be super clear, I am not donating money to either candidate for US President." In May, he also refuted media reports suggesting ...
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‘It’s only going to get better’: Elon Musk moving on to second person to test brain tech – Times of India

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday said that his company, Neuralink, is "moving on" to its second test patient as the technology connecting brains and computers advances. During a live stream on X, Musk and the Neuralink team addressed questions about the company's progress in making brain implants widely available."We're only just moving now to our second Neuralink patient," Musk said."But we hope to have, if things go well, high single digits this year," he added. In January, Neuralink successfully implanted a brain device in Noland Arbaugh, who was paralysed from the shoulders down after a diving accident eight years ago. Since the implantation, Arbaugh has reported playing chess, the video game "Civilisation," and taking Japanese and French lessons by controlling a computer screen cur...
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Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial begins: Witnesses recall chaotic set shooting; actor accused of breaking gun rules | – Times of India

The involuntary manslaughter trial of Alec Baldwin began Wednesday with prosecutors painting him as a headstrong actor who repeatedly shirked his duty to maintain gun safety on the set of the movie "Rust," while the defense argued that the death of the movie's cinematographer was the result of other crew members' failures.A defense attorney told jurors Wednesday that the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was an "unspeakable tragedy" but that " Alec Baldwin committed no crime; he was an actor, acting." Baldwin's lawyer Alex Spiro emphasized in his opening statement in a Santa Fe, New Mexico, courtroom that Baldwin, who is on trial for involuntary manslaughter, did exactly what actors always do on the set of the film "Rust," where Hutchins was killed in October 2021. "I ...
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Elon Musk Confirms Launch Of Grok 2 AI In August, Here’s What He Revealed About Grok 3

Elon Musk has finally revealed the release date for the Grok 2 AI chatbot based on artificial general intelligence (AGI). As per Musk, the will be launched in August 2024. The new Grok versions by xAI will be bundled with advanced AI features including long context and understanding and advanced reasoning. It also has enhanced performance on benchmarks like MATH and HumanEval. If all this is not enough for you then Grok 3 AI chatbot is likely to be released by the end of this year which will be an even better version than the upcoming Grok 2. X Daily News tweeted, "Grok 2 is planned to release in August. The aim is to remove content from other LLMs found on the internet. Grok 3, which will have been trained with much larger compute, is pencilled in for a...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX gets $843m to help discard ISS around 2030 – Times of India

WASHINGTON: Nasa awarded SpaceX $843m to build a vehicle capable of pushing the Internation Space Station into Earth's atmosphere for its planned destruction around 2030, it said on Wednesday, a task originally meant for Russia's thrusters. Under its new Nasa contract, SpaceX will build what the space agency called the US Deorbit Vehicle to deorbit the ISS and avoid risks to populated areas, with Nasa taking ownership of the craft and handling the deorbiting operation. The football field-sized research lab, led primarily by the US and Russia, has been continuously staffed with govt astronauts during its some 24 years of operation, but its aging components have led Nasa and its foreign partners to set 2030 as a planned retirement date. The first segment of the ISS was launched in 1998. W...
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Meet Maye Musk, the woman who raised one of the richest billionaires in the world Elon Musk – Times of India

Elon Musk is much known as the Chief of Tesla and X, and for being one of the richest billionaires in the world. But did you know that his mother Maye Musk is also popular, much before Elon became a billionaire? Yes, you read that right! In fact, Maye Musk is often seen with Elon Musk-- be it at the Met Gala or the Saturday Night Show. Elon Musk's glamourous mother, Maye Musk, is a celebrity in her own right and she is often credited for raising one of the richest persons in the world today.Read on to learn more about her here.Watch: TeslaBot greets with 'Namaste' and performs yoga, Elon Musk shares Humanoid Robot's videoWho is Maye Musk?Maye Halderman (her maiden name) was born on April 19, 1948, in Canada to her entrepreneur parents. She was born as a twin and was one of the five chil...
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Elon Musk’s 12 children: What we know about them – Times of India

Now that Elon Musk has confirmed that he has welcomed his third child with Neuralink director Shivon Zilis earlier this year and there was nothing secret about it, the Tesla CEO is now the father of at least 12 children -- in public knowledge. Justine Wilson, Grimes and Shivon Zilis are the mothers of Elon Musk's children. Elon's first child with Justine Wilson died at just 10 weeks in 2002.He was named Nevada.Details of Elon Musk's 12 childrenGriffin and Vivian (formerly Xavier)Born in 2004, two years after, Elon Musk and Justine Wilson lost Nevada, Griffin and Vivian are twins. Vivian was the name that she chose as she became 18 leaving father's surname and the name Xavier given by the parents. She also came out as a transgender.Kai, Saxon, DamianBorn in 2006, Kai, Saxon, Damian are t...
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Video | Maharashtra Assembly Elections से पहले Shinde और Uddhav गुट का शक्ति प्रदर्शन | City Centre

  Maharashtra Politics: शिवसेना के दोनों धड़ों ने आज पार्टी का 58वां स्थापना दिवस मनाया. उद्धव ठाकरे गुट ने परंपरा के अनुसार मुंबई के शणमुखानंद हॉल में स्थापना दिवस मनाया. जबकि एकनाथ शिंदे गुट का कार्यक्रम वर्ली के नेशनल स्पोर्ट्स क्लब ऑफ इंडिया- NSCI डोम में हुआ. कोशिश खुद को असली शिवसेना साबित करने की है। महाराष्ट्र विधानसभा चुनावों से पहले शिवसेना के दोनों धड़ों ने स्थापना दिवस के ज़रिए शक्ति प्रदर्शन किया। Source link ...
TDP, which had opposed EVMs after 2019 defeat, hits out at Jagan for backing Oppn’s paper ballot push
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TDP, which had opposed EVMs after 2019 defeat, hits out at Jagan for backing Oppn’s paper ballot push

Hyderabad: Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has joined the growing chorus of voices calling for a reversion to voting via ballot papers in elections, raising concerns over the risks of using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).Jagan’s latest take on EVMs is in total contrast to that of the Bharatiya Janata Party, with which he had maintained a friendly equation during the last five years.   The BJP — leader of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is a member of — has been strongly backing the use of electronic machines. But the Opposition, led by the Congress, wants to either do away with EVMs or have 100 percent VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) verification. Show Full Article Two week...
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Ozone layer at risk from Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites? New study shows – Times of India

NEW DELHI: A new study warned that the rapid increase in Starlink satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX could significantly deplete Earth's ozone layer. With 6,000 of the 8,100 objects currently in low Earth orbit belonging to Starlink, the environmental impact of these satellites is raising concerns among scientists.Joseph Wang, a researcher in astronautics at the University of Southern California and the corresponding author of the study, said, "Only in recent years have people started to think this might become a problem.We were one of the first teams to look at what the implication of these facts might be."SpaceX has already received permission to launch an additional 12,000 satellites, with plans for up to 42,000. Other companies, including Amazon, are also planning to launch l...
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Video | Team Thackeray vs Shinde Sena Amid EVM Row On Seat INDIA Lost By 48 Votes

Amid the row over news reports claiming that the phone of a Shiv Sena candidate's aide was connected to an EVM during counting of votes in Mumbai's North West Lok Sabha seat, leaders of NDA and INDIA bloc in Maharashtra are trading barbs. Ravindra Waikar, a leader of Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena won the Mumbai North West seat by a margin of just 48 votes. The runner-up was Amol Kirtikar from Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray). The Thackery-led faction bagged nine Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra, while Mr Shinde's Sena got seven. Soon after the news reports emerged, leaders of Uddhav Thackeray's party demanded that the CCTV footage of counting day be released. Source link
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Dubai Police adds Elon Musk’s Tesla Cybertruck to its elite fleet – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Dubai Police added the Tesla Cybertruck to their fleet, aiming to support ecological sustainability and new technology. Their collection already includes vehicles like the Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S, Ferrari FF, Bugatti Veyron, and Lamborghini Aventador.The Cybertruck, known for its unique design, first appeared while escorting Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai, along with a Mercedes-AMG G63.The Dubai Police shared pictures of the Cybertruck in their green and white colors on social media.The Dubai Police announced on their official X account, formerly known as Twitter, that they have added the Tesla Cybertruck to their tourist police patrol fleet. Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, responded to the post with a brief “Cool” and a sunglasses emoji....
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EVM debate: Rajeev Chandrasekhar doubles down attack on Elon Musk, calls him ‘factually wrong’ | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: In yet another sharp counter to Elon Musk's views on Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar called the Tesla co-founder and CEO "factually wrong." Chandrasekhar, while speaking to news agency ANI, said that Musk's suggestion about 'all EVMs being hackable' was too broad and inaccurate. "To claim that there cannot be a secure digital product in the world is to then say that every Tesla car can be hacked.He is factually wrong," he said."Musk was commenting in the context of some EVMs in the US, specifically in Puerto Rico," Chandrasekhar explained. "He made this sweeping comment that all EVMs can be hacked. I am nobody to get into an argument with somebody like Elon Musk. But that statement or that generalization was far too sweeping for it to be lef...
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Sam Pitroda joins EVM debate, says it is possible to manipulate | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Sam Pitroda on Monday joined the ongoing debate over the possibility of hacking Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and said that the EVMs can be manipulated. "I have spent about 60 years in the forefront of electronics, telecom,IT, software, complex systems and a lot more. I have studied EVM system carefully and believe that it is possible to manipulate.The best approach is the traditional paper ballot to count as casted," he said in a post on X.Sam Pitroda, a renowned figure in the telecommunications industry, tendered his resignation as the chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress, last month. Pitroda's decision to step down followed a controversial statement he made on Wednesday, where he said, "people of the east look like the Chinese and those of the south look like Afric...
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‘Rahul Gandhi’s Jamaat Of Doubters…’: BJP On Opposition’s Claim Of ‘EVM Black Box’

BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla has said that Rahul Gandhi was using the 'EVM black box' claim to hide his black deeds. He said the Congress leader was peddling lies to shift the focus from the rising petrol and diesel prices in Karnataka. "Rahul Gandhi who speaks of the black box wants to hide his black deeds and therefore he wants to use a half-baked story to peddle his lies and fakery. To hide the black deeds of Karnataka where the price of diesel and petrol has been increased, he is using a fake story and peddling half-truths and full lies," Poonawalla told news agency ANI. #WATCH | Delhi: On Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's statement on EVMs, BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla says, "Rahul Gandhi who speaks of black box wants to hide his black ...