Tesla starts offering 84-month car loans as interest rates rise
The company now includes seven-year loans as an option on its U.S. order pages, after previously offering loans as long as 72 months. In Canada, Tesla is offering 96-month loans.
Musk says Twitter to change logo to “X” from the bird. Changes could come as early as Monday.
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO (AP Retail Writer)
NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk said Sunday that he plans to change the logo of Twitter to an “X” from the famous blue bird, marking what would be the latest big change since he bought the social media platform for $44 billion last year.
In a series of posts on his Twitter account starting just after 12 a.m. ET, Twitter’s owner said that he’s looking to make the change worldwide as soon as Monday.
“And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk wrote on his account.
The change isn’t surprising given Musk’s long history with the name “X,” says Allen Adamson, co-founder of marketing consultancy Metaforce. The billionaire Tesla CEO tweeted last October that “buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app.”
Musk’s rocket company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., is commonly known as SpaceX. And in 1999, Musk founded a startup called X.com, an online financial services company now known as PayPal.
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SpaceX aims for launch before sunset from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX looks to send up its next batch of Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday evening.
A Falcon 9 carrying 22 of the broadband satellites has its first target window about 45 minutes before sunset at 7:34 p.m. from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 with three backup options between 9:15-10:56 p.m. Further launch opportunities fall on Sunday from 7:09-10:31 p.m.
Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron predicts only a 40% chance for good conditions for the first launch window, but that improves to 85% by the end of the launch window Saturday. Sunday conditions are similar with 30% chance for good conditions that improve to 80% across the window.
The first-stage booster for the mission is making its sixth flight and will attempt a recovery landing downrange on the droneship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic.
It would be the 36th orbital launch from the Space Coast in 2023, with all but two coming from SpaceX.
Including its California missions, this will be SpaceX’s 49th orbital launch among its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets for the year.