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Andrew Nusca

Data Sheet: Drill, maybe, drill

Professor David Haviland, a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, during the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. (Photo: Steffen Trumpf/dpa/Getty Images)

Good morning. I’ve got Elon Musk on my mind, and not for reasons you might suspect.

It’s because of his never-boring Boring Company, which presently has a bit of a trespasser problem in Las Vegas. (Read more below from Fortune’s Jessica Mathews.) 

Only a few years ago Musk promised to alleviate traffic in notoriously clogged Los Angeles; today, he’s relocated to Texas and left a literal tunnel of broken promises. 

And I’m still stuck in, well, you know. —Andrew Nusca

P.S. We goofed the other day by implying that Google did not pay for news in Canada. The company struck a deal with the federal government almost a year ago. Thanks to eagle-eyed reader Benoît for the catch. —Andrew Nusca

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