As Bloomberg reports, the once hyped-up transportation startup — which planned to revolutionize travel from city to city by blasting us through vacuum tubes at breakneck speeds — has laid off most of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Virgin Hyperloop One is one of two leading companies working on the hypersonic vacuum transport system (Virgin Hyperloop One) ...

The tech startup’s ambitions suffered from internal strife, regulatory hurdles and more. Bloomberg reporter Sarah McBride covered the twists and turns on its route to failure. While Marketplace’s Lily ...

Hyperloop One had once dreamed of building a high-speed freight link between Europe and China, one that could take cargo from one end to the other in a single day. That will, however, remain one of ...

After years of attempting to reinvent the nature of transit with a futuristic tube-based concept that would bring passengers and freight between locations at high speed, the startup Hyperloop One is ...

It’s been almost ten years since Elon Musk brought hyperloop technology back into modern public consciousness with a 2013 research paper. His Space X sponsored The Hyperloop Pod Competition spawning ...

Elon Musk is very much an ideas man. He regularly comes out with elaborate solutions to the world's problems. His musings have included robotaxis, nuking the Martians, and brain chips capable of ...

Imagine traveling from New York to Los Angeles in less than an hour or from London to Paris in 15 minutes. Sounds impossible, right? Well, not for China’s biggest missile manufacturer, which claims to ...

I have two issues with the Hyperloop: 1) Mechanical failures will be very expensive to resolve. Your pod breaks down between stations? We'll need to re-pressurize the segment of tube, get a crew in ...