UPDATE 2-Tesla's Musk closes SolarCity deal, more challenges lie ahead and other top stories.

• UPDATE 2-Tesla's Musk closes SolarCity deal, more challenges lie ahead

  

  (Adds details of SolarCity's business, paragraphs 13-14) By Alexandria Sage and Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk won approval on Thursday from the electric luxury automaker's shareholders for an acquisition of SolarCity Corp, the solar energy system installer in which he is the largest shareholder. The stock swap deal, worth about $2 billion, caps a tumultuous year for Musk and Tesla. The proposed acquisition of SolarCity, a money-losing ..

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• SpaceX just asked permission to launch 4425 satellites - more than orbit Earth today

  

  Flickr/SpaceX SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by the Mars-hungry tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, just made a big move to envelop the Earth in high-speed internet coverage. On Tuesday, the company filed a lengthy application with the Federal Communications Commission to launch 4,425 satellites. (We first heard about the filing through the r/SpaceX community on Reddit.) That is a lot of satellites. According to a database compiled by the Union of Concerned ..

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• Amazon is rolling out Alexa-only shopping deals

  

  Amazon has already stoked the holiday consumption fire by rolling out a bunch of deals well ahead of Black Friday, but this weekend’s shopping opportunity comes with a giant catch: starting November 18 and running through the 21st, certain deals are only available if you order through Alexa, the voice-controlled virtual assistant that runs on Amazon’s Echo speakers and Fire TV products. Over the next few days, if you ask Alexa "Alexa, what are your deals?" you’ll be able to order a variety of d..

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• Chinese astronauts return to earth after longest mission

  

  China's Shenzhou-11 spacecraft returned to earth Friday, bringing home two astronauts from the rising power's longest-ever orbital mission in a milestone for its vaulting ambitions. China's state broadcaster CCTV showed the return capsule's separation ...

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• Surgeon general issues landmark report calling addiction a brain disease

  

  Nearly 21 million Americans were directly affected by drug or alcohol addiction last year — roughly the same amount of Americans who have diabetes, according to a new report from US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on addiction.Yet just one in every 10 of those people got treatment."We would never tolerate a situation where only one in 10 people with cancer or diabetes gets treatment, and yet we do that with substance-abuse disorders," Murthy told the Washington Post.RELATED: Opioid addiction reach..

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• U.S. says concerned over Russia blocking access to LinkedIn

  

  By Christian Lowe and Maria KiselyovaMOSCOW (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Friday it was deeply concerned over Russia's decision to block public access to networking site LinkedIn, saying it created a precedent that could be used to justify blocking other sites operating in Russia.LinkedIn (LNKD.N), which has its headquarters in the United States, is the first major social network to be blocked under a new law that requires firms holding Russian citizens' data to store it on servers on ..

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• UPDATE 1-S.Korea rejects Google request to take govt mapping data out of country

  

  * Google rejected suggestions to boost data protection * S.Korea will reconsider if Google removes sensitive images (Adds govt statement, background) By Joyce Lee and Se Young Lee SEOUL, Nov 18 (Reuters) - South Korea said on Friday it has rejected Google's latest request for permission to take government mapping data for use in servers outside the country, citing security issues with North Korea. Google, an Alphabet Inc company, has said it needs to use the data on servers worldwide to enabl..

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• Asteroid strike made 'instant Himalayas'

  

  Media captionThe model animation shows the action in one half of the crater Scientists say they can now describe in detail how the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs produced its huge crater.The reconstruction of the event 66 million years ago was made possible by drilling into the remnant bowl and analysing its rocks.These show how the space impactor made the hard surface of the planet slosh back and forth like a fluid.At one stage, a mountain higher than Everest was thrown up before co..

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• Airbnb, worth $30 billion, takes a first step toward becoming a full-service travel company

  

  Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. Kimberly White/Getty Images for Fortune Airbnb has finally launched a feature that will help transition the company from a website for booking lodgings to a full-service travel company. On Thursday, the company announced it's launching Trips, a feature that was hinted at for months but has actually been in the works for two years under CEO Brian Chesky. According to a new article by Vanity Fair's Katrina Brooker, Chesky pulled away from d..

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• Autonomous cars—"new oil" or "big brother"?

  Just like credit cards, smartphones or search engines, autonomous cars will carry a trove of information about their owners as they make driving more comfortable, raising new concerns about privacy. Automakers are engaged in a fierce race to develop ...

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