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Evening Standard
Technology
Rachelle Abbott

Tech & Science Daily: Elon Musk’s Twitter poll drives Tesla down

Be careful what you Twitter poll…

Tesla shares have fallen after Elon Musk asked his 62.5 million Twitter followers to vote on whether he should sell 10% of his stake in order to pay tax.

Musk said he was ‘prepared to accept either outcome’ of the poll which was done in response to a “billionaires tax” proposed by US Democrats.

The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope - the James Webb Space Telescope - is set to launch in six weeks... after more than a decade of delays.

In mid-December, a powerful rocket is expected to carry the JWST, the most ambitious space telescope ever built, into space.

Astronaut Wang Yaping has made history by becoming the first Chinese woman to walk in space.

Wang and a fellow astronaut successfully completed the six and a half hour spacewalk in the early hours of Monday morning.

The US government offers bounty of up to $10million for information on a hacking group known as ‘DarkSide’. Plus, has frozen semen from the 1960s repopulated an extinct species of cow? Why SpaceX has had to delay four astronauts’ return to Earth, a mysterious app climbs top of the charts but no one really knows why and a nine-foot-tall joystick breaks records.

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