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EXCERPTS: Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has revealed he has Asperger's syndrome while appearing on the US comedy sketch series Saturday Night Live (SNL).

The 49-year-old told viewers he was "the first person with Asperger's" to host the long-running programme - to loud cheers from the audience.

People with Asperger's interpret the environment around them differently to other people. It is thought to be the first time Mr Musk has spoken about his condition.

[...] Mr Musk ... also joked about his use of social media. He has faced criticism and even legal threats over his tweets in the past. "Look, I know I sometimes say or post strange things, but that's just how my brain works," he said. "To anyone who's been offended, I just want to say I reinvented electric cars, and I'm sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?" (MORE - details)

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Jeff Bezos is reportedly very jealous of Elon Musk’s SpaceX
https://futurism.com/the-byte/jeff-bezos...usk-spacex

INTRO: The recent book “Amazon Unbound,” by Brad Stone, details Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ meteoric rise to power and business triumph, but it also includes a striking point of vulnerability: Bezos is reportedly deeply jealous of Elon Musk’s success with SpaceX.

Back in 2016, Bezos was already deeply concerned about how his own spaceflight company, Blue Origin, didn’t seem to be progressing at nearly the same pace as SpaceX. As Ars Technica independently confirmed, Bezos even went as far as trying (and failing) to poach Gwynne Shotwell, the SpaceX COO who’d been with the company since nearly the beginning, and hire her as Blue Origin CEO to try and whip the company into shape.
Diverging Roads

The story only gets worse, as the book goes on to describe how Bezos’ attempts to compete with SpaceX seemed to move the company in the wrong direction... (MORE)