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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: Elon Musk is Time’s Person of the Year; NSO could shut Pegasus; Apple faces probe; Flipkart again invests in Ninjacart
Description: Elon Musk is Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ for 2021. Musk’s startup rocket company, SpaceX, has blasted past Boeing and others to own America’s spacefaring future. His electric car company, Tesla, controls two-thirds of the multibillion-dollar electric-vehicle market it pioneered. It is valued at $1 trillion, the magazine points out.
That has made Musk, with a net worth of more than $250 billion, the richest private citizen in history. His interests include robots, solar power, cryptocurrency, climate tech, brain-computer implants and underground tunnels to move people and freight at high speeds.
In the future Musk envisi...