Elon Musk made some wildly bold claims on the Lex Fridman podcast yesterday. While he’s certainly no stranger to sensationalism, it’s clear now that the line between trolling humanity and getting-high-off-his-own supply is blurrier than ever for the world’s richest man. He’s now claiming thatthe Tesla Robotcould be an “incredible buddy like C3PO or R2D2” and that it will be able to “develop a personality over time that is unique” because, according to Musk, “it’s not like all robots are the same....

Owners of an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Apple TV were yesterday able toupdate their devices to Apple’s new iOS 5 software, providing them with a number of new features and access to the company’s new cloud service iCloud.Update below. Apple experiencedproblems of its own, with many users unable to update their devices because its servers were unable to cope with requests to activate their installs, pulling an “internal error occurred (3200)” message each time they attempted to install the update....

There are many pain points in the conference business, the least of which is a faulty wifi connection. And if you’re not there, you miss out on all of the valuable presentations, the product demonstrations and the unique moments created by the conference organizer. Once it’s gone, it’s as though the event vanished completely. Conferize, which officially launced at DEMO this week, is the product of Martin Ferro-Thompsen a Danish entrepreneur who is also behindIssuu, a gorgeous publishing platform that turns content into Web or tablet magazines....

The stage at theDEMO ’11 Conferencewas the site of many exciting company launches, as well as the reintroduction of some well-known products. Among the companies creating the most excitement wasGust, a Web-based tool that allows any startup to create a professional investor relations website, and connect with accredited investors around the world. Gust was formerly AngelSoft, with more than a new coat of paint. On Gust, a company can upload all of the publicly-available information about their startup, including product specs, business plan and market opportunities, and then communicate privately with interested investors....

A lot of people out there like to shoot videos, but few people think of themselves as video editors. This means that there are countless hours of footage on people’s iPhones, Android devices, Flip Cameras and other digital video recorders that just sit there. WhatWeVideohas set out to do is unchain all of this content and free people to be creative and collaborative. Similar to Web-based photo editor Picnik, WeVideo has most of the tools someone would need to make a well-produced, and well-received video, and to do so collaboratively....