Tesla (TSLA -3.20%) went public in 2010 and has crushed broader equities since. The man who has led the company through that entire period, Elon Musk, recently took another one of his companies public: Space Exploration Technologies (SPCX -0.82%). The rocket company has moved sideways (more or less) since its record-breaking IPO in June, but…
Before Elon Musk built Tesla and SpaceX and became one of the world’s most closely watched entrepreneurs, he was a child in South Africa saving money for something he wanted badly, a computer. According to Walter Isaacson’s biography ‘Elon Musk’, Musk saved his allowance for months and persuaded his father to pay the remaining half…
The black-and-silver behemoth, standing more than 120 meters (131 yards) tall, rose through a thick cloud of smoke on an ambitious 14th test flight. The upper stage separated from the Super Heavy booster and reached orbit about 26 minutes into flight. During the test, expected to last about 10 hours, the experimental rocket’s upper stage…
Robert De Niro has spent more than six decades building one of the most celebrated acting careers in American cinema, from Mean Streets and Taxi Driver to Goodfellas, Heat and Joker. Born August 17, 1943, in New York City, De Niro discovered acting as a child and left high school at 16 to pursue it…
Grande Cosmetics has named Lucy Hale its first brand ambassador. Founded in 2008 by Alicia Grande, the beauty line is best known for its cult-favorite Lash and Brow Enhancing Serums, formulated with radish root ferment and vitamin E to visibly condition and strengthen the hair. The lash serum, initially developed as a remedy for postpartum…
Two new giant pandas have arrived at Zoo Atlanta, just days after Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the pair would be coming to the United States. Ping Ping, a male, and Fu Shuang, a female, arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Sunday morning aboard a FedEx “Panda Express” Boeing 777, according to Zoo Atlanta. Their…
Celebrity heights are one of those things that can be weirdly hard to judge. You see someone onscreen a million times and somehow never realize they’re way taller than you imagined.So, naturally, I went down a rabbit hole looking up the heights of famous women — and some of these genuinely surprised me. Here are…