The Verge

APRIL 21, 2022

The Boring Company’s plan to revolutionize transport is best summarized as “Teslas in tunnels.” | Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images. The Boring Company has raised a new round of funding worth $675 million, with Elon Musk’s grand plan to “solve traffic” with tunnels now valued at $5.675 billion.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2021

The Boring Company has been pitching potential clients on a much wider tunnel than any it has built so far, Bloomberg reported , which could be used to transport freight. The company most recently completed 1.7 The Boring Company has claimed such a system could handle roughly 50,000 passengers per hour.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

But advertising is just one form of marketing, and the billionaire CEO sure knows how to market his companies. Musk then suggests Leno drive it through the tunnel The Boring Company dug underground near the SpaceX headquarters. The appearance, which CNBC has spent the last two weeks promoting, is pretty straightforward.

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TechSpot

MAY 14, 2020

The Boring Company has completed the excavation of the second of two tunnels under the streets of Las Vegas, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The first tube was finished back in February. The Las Vegas Convention and Vistors Authority (LVCVA) announced the project in March of last year.

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Gizmodo

JULY 7, 2021

The city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida has accepted a proposal from Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build a transportation tunnel that would bring people from downtown to the beach, according to Mayor Dean J. Trantalis in a tweet late Tuesday. And if Musk’s previous tunnel efforts are any guide, the residents of Fort… Read more.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 12, 2022

It alleges a conspiracy in which highly influential celebrities were discreetly paid to promote the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs to "artificially inflated and distorted prices." Plaintiffs Adonis Real and Adam Titcher filed the suit in California district court on Friday. It's claimed that these misleading promotions did not disclose.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 18, 2023

During the height of the crypto craze when non-fungible tokens were seen as sound investments and people were paying comical amounts of money for them, Sotheby's sold a set of 101 Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs for $24.4 Ars Technica notes that the price was way above the $12. Read Entire Article

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Venture Beast

APRIL 18, 2021

The new Stretch robot from Boston Dynamics doesn't do backflips or dance, but it may become the company's most successful commercial product. Read More.

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CTOvision

JULY 7, 2020

Tired of boring presentations and powerpoint slides? So, Cognilytica recently launched our AI Demo Showcase to give companies an opportunity to demo their products in an interactive […]. So were we!

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CTOvision

JULY 3, 2020

Tired of boring presentations and powerpoint slides? So, Cognilytica recently launched our AI Demo Showcase to give companies an opportunity to demo their products in an interactive […]. So were we!

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TechSpot

JUNE 16, 2022

The transit system will use Tesla Model X and Model Y vehicles to transport passengers directly to their destination without having to stop at other stations along the way. Officials view the network of tunnels as yet another way to connect key destinations throughout the city and ease traffic congestion.

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Venture Beast

JUNE 29, 2020

Short, mobile device-friendly videos are all the rage -- and now they could be the solution to tedious corporate conference calls. Read More.

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Vox

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Elon Musk opened the first Boring Company tunnel in Hawthorne, California in 2018. The billionaire dug himself into a hole with the Boring Company. Thus was launched the Boring Company. Musk’s new company bought a machine and started boring a tunnel under Hawthorne. Robyn Beck via Bloomberg.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Poor performance and even poorer public perception have forced Elon Musk’s Boring Company to largely pivot away from its most ambitious projects and opt instead to prioritize more politically friendly locals. Now, Musk reportedly has his sights set on Texas and Miami for the company’s near future. Read more.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Image: The Boring Company. Elon Musk’s Boring Company’s system of tunnels to shuttle people under the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) may not be able to move as many people as originally promised, according to documents obtained by TechCrunch. The Boring Company completed digging the tunnels for the Loop in May.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Image: The Boring Company. Elon Musk told Miami’s mayor Friday that The Boring Company could dig a two-mile tunnel under the city for as little as $30 million — a fraction of the $1 billion price tag once quoted by local transit officials. The purpose and scope of the tunnels has changed a bit over that time.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2022

Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club, announced today that it had acquired CryptoPunks and Meebits from Larva Labs. Everybody knows CryptoPunks, everybody loves CryptoPunks,” Greg Solano, a Bored Ape Yacht Club co-founder who goes by the pseudonym Gargamel, tells The Verge. The company declined to share the sale price.

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Gizmodo

JULY 7, 2021

Officials from Fort Lauderdale, Florida formally accepted a proposal from Elon Musk’s Boring Company on Tuesday to build an underground transit tunnel. Read more.

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GeekWire

APRIL 15, 2024

“Some of the feedback we got was that it sounded too boring,” Grover said. He later did engineering stints with Seattle startups including Elevator, Poppy, TraceMe, and Mason, and has backed Seattle companies as an angel investor. The firm raised $10 million for its first fund and has invested in more than 25 companies.

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Gizmodo

JULY 29, 2021

If you ride the Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel, known as the Convention Center Loop, you might be tempted to ask your driver about the company’s founder Elon Musk. The company has a script for its drivers and TechCrunch got its hands on what employees are supposed to say. But don’t expect a straight answer.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 9, 2021

But just how futuristic is this technology, which Musk’s Boring Company has dubbed the “Loop”? Local media outlets in Las Vegas were invited for a sneak peek of Elon Musk’s new form of ‘public transit’ on Thursday. That depends how futuristic you think a car being driven slowly by a human inside of a tunnel might be. Read more.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 19, 2021

Back in 2018, Elon Musk’s The Boring Company released a bunch of limited edition flame-throwing devices as a bizarre promotional gimmick for the tunnel-digging startup. Officially dubbed “Not A Flamethrower” on the company’s own website, the devices could not, as CNN pointed out at the time, “spew flames long… Read more.

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2024

I have my doubts that LinkedIn will ever shake off its reputation for being slightly boring, but at a point in time when most other major social media platforms are actively infuriating, maybe “boring” could take it place. LinkedIn generated over $4 billion in Microsoft’s most recent quarter. Pretty cool and fun, in my opinion!

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

An NFT trader from Texas has filed a lawsuit against trading platform OpenSea, saying the company was responsible when his Bored Ape image was stolen from his crypto wallet. The trader is asking for the return of his ape and $1 million in damages. Read more.

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TechSpot

MARCH 4, 2021

It was supposed to resemble one of the company's parcels with a piece of torn tape at the top. Strangely, some people complained that the spikey strip bore a resemblance to. The unlikely-sounding scenario came after Amazon launched its main shopping-app logo in January, replacing the previous shopping trolley icon.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

ETH, which currently equates to about $765, and the company sold 29,620 NFTs (“Adidas and partners” held onto 380 for “future events”), meaning the company earned more than $22 million from the sales in the span of an afternoon. Each NFT cost 0.2 Adidas offered 20,000 NFTs in early access.

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2024

In 2013, Peterson and his former Etsy colleague Nick Galbreath co-founded Signal Sciences, a cybersecurity company acquired by Fastly in 2020. “There’s so much pent-up energy and talent here, especially in the boring areas that I like — B2B enterprise companies, infrastructure software,” Peterson said.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The apparel company is launching a line of NFTs on Friday, called Into the Metaverse , which will offer buyers access to what’s essentially a very exclusive fan club. The company launched digital tokens last month, which will offer holders early access to the NFT drop, and a couple weeks ago, it began tweeting vaguely about the metaverse.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 15, 2017

The company unveils newest outposts in its war on boring data center walls. Read More.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Digital marketplace OpenSea has banned the PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club (or PAYC) collections, both of which are based on the same gimmick: selling NFTs with mirrored but otherwise identical versions of high-priced Bored Ape Yacht Club avatars. million) in sales.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The makers behind the Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC) are no longer a mystery — a BuzzFeed News report reveals them as Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow, two men from Florida. Both Aronow and Solano compare pictures of themselves with Bored Ape NFTs and say they’ve been doxxed. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

JUNE 26, 2020

billion acquisition of Zoox , a venture focusing on self-driving cars that could compete with Tesla, the car company that Musk heads: @JeffBezos is a copy ?? Several auto companies are developing their own sets of autonomous driving capabilities, but for now, Tesla is the industry leader. Next up: Teslaquila and Boring Candy ?

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his company is working on a humanoid robot and that it will build a prototype “sometime next year.” The humanoid robot will leverage Tesla’s experience with automated machines in its factories, as well as some of the hardware and software that powers the company’s Autopilot driver assistance software.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Prenuvo Photo) Prenuvo , the celebrity-endorsed company offering $2,500 full-body MRI scans designed to detect cancer and other diseases early, is planning to open one of its clinics in Seattle in 2024. The company has been generating buzz thanks to some of its high-profile clientele, including Kim Kardashian, who told her 3.6

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ComputerWorld IT Management

OCTOBER 13, 2020

When the COVID-19 crisis bore down in mid-March, the IT team at Enova International diligently fired on all cylinders to convert the company to remote work, including standing up a contact center with nearly 700 employees. Months into the pandemic, enthusiasm began to wane.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 7, 2021

YouTube Rewind — the company’s annual year-end round-up of trends, creators, memes, and the most popular videos on the site — has been canceled for good, the company confirmed to TubeFilter today. The company already took off 2020 , citing the difficulties of the year: “2020 has been different.

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2022

Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT holders can buy new merchandise items from Yuga Labs — but they can only use the newly-launched ApeCoin to do it, according to an announcement in the BAYC Discord server. Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) March 28, 2022. The company has been granted 150 million tokens , but they are locked up for a year.

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