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How science fiction shaped Tesla’s Musk

Where does Elon Musk get his ideas from? What is he trying to achieve and who does he want to be? Many of us are desperate to understand the world’s richest man, whose electric vehicle maker Tesla is now, according to the stock market, worth a trillion dollars. Jill Lepore, a historian at Harvard University, suggests Musk was shaped by ...

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Will Big Oil’s ‘Friday feeling’ stay forever?

More than most weeks, Big Oil had reason to cheer the arrival a Friday. The day before, the CEOs of Exxon Mobil Corp, Chevron Corp and other industry bigwigs had been called to Congress (virtually) for one of those hearing/shellacking rituals, where they were accused of hiding the dangers of climate change. The latest UN climate summit kicked off in ...

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Ryanair all set to drop London listing in a first blaming Brexit

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc is considering delisting from the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in the latest setback to the UK’s stock market arising from Brexit. The Irish discount carrier cited compliance headaches tied to Britain’s exit from the European Union as it weighs joining a growing list of firms that are disappearing from the bourse. Dublin-based Ryanair is required to ...

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