Hyperloop One, the futuristic transportation company building tube-encased lines to zip passengers and freight from city to city at airplane-like speeds, is shutting down, according to people familiar ...

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 ...

After raising almost half a billion dollars in funding since being founded in 2014, Hyperloop One is shutting down. As Bloomberg reports, the once hyped-up transportation startup — which planned to ...

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 ...

For those unfamiliar, a hyperloop is a currently experimental form of public transportation originally conceptualized by Elon Musk, in which a passenger capsule is sealed into a borderline ...

CASC designs, develops, and manufactures everything from spacecraft to missiles, but it’s currently working on a hyperloop. The company has built a section of low-vacuum tube that is roughly 1.2 miles ...

A number of different providers have tried and failed to develop hyperloop technology over the years. The futuristic concept – made popular by Elon Musk – is a train-like transport system where ...

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VEENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A 420-meter (quarter-mile) white steel tube running alongside a railway line in the windswept northern Netherlands could usher in a new era in the transportation of people ...

You leave your office in Denver, arrive at Union Station, and hop aboard a podlike car. Once you’ve settled in, the capsule whooshes into a dark tube. A mere hour and a half later, you pop out in San ...