Elon Musk’s ‘animal spirits,’ Apple misses out, and SpaceX to the moon: Tech news roundup

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California Governor Gavin Newsom

California Governor Gavin Newsom
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is ruffling a lot of feathers — including Elon Musk’s — with his new proposal for electric vehicle incentives that would exclude Tesla’s (TSLA) popular models.

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When Elon Musk’s SpaceX helps NASA bring a vehicle to the Moon, it most likely won’t be a Tesla (TSLA).

NASA recently awarded Space X and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Original contracts for its Human Landing Systems, tasking them with figuring out how to transport roving vehicles to the moon by 2032 as part of its Artemis program.

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You are most likely contributing to the earth’s shifting rotation tilting, just because you use your sink.

A study by researchers in South Korea found that the earth has rotated 31.5 inches in the past two decades thanks to groundwater pumping, Earth.com reported. “Our study shows that among climate-related causes, the redistribution of groundwater actually has the largest impact on the drift of the rotational pole,” Ki-Weon Seo, a geophysicist at Seoul National University, said.

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President-elect Donald Trump

President-elect Donald Trump
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President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House is expected to be largely negative for the electric vehicle industry, given his years of past opposition and personal distaste for the technology. His team has already started plotting out his anti-EV moves.

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Tesla

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Tesla’s (TSLA) pollution issues have reportedly gone unaddressed at its Texas headquarters, adding another link in Elon Musk’s lengthy chain of environmental problems caused by his companies’ factories.  

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk at a rally for President-elect Donald Trump last month.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk at a rally for President-elect Donald Trump last month.
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Tesla (TSLA) shares have surged on investor optimism that President-elect Donald Trump will bring forward policies that benefit his ally, CEO Elon Musk. But those gains are entirely based on momentum, not any changes to the company’s fundamentals, UBS (UBS) analysts warned on Monday.

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Apple

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Although global smartphone sales are set to grow to 1.24 billion units this year, Apple’s (AAPL) performance has barely improved, according to a new study.

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