Virgin Hyperloop CTO Josh Giegel (left) and director of passenger experience Sara Luchian prepare for their world-first passenger test run in Nevada. “Hyperloop is for everyone. It’s not for the 1%; ...

Though some efforts continue, the once-promising technology has run up against significant challenges — most notably creating an entirely new transit infrastructure. By Eric A. Taub This article is ...

Virgin Hyperloop carried its first humans in a test run late last year. The project is apace, but it won’t be in service for almost a decade—and likely will be developed in other parts of the world ...

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, 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 ...

Virgin Hyperloop has revealed what a 45-minute trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco is going to look like. Last week, the mass transportation company -- owned by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group -- ...

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

Virgin Hyperloop laid off more than 100 employees on Friday, the Financial Times first reported. The move will allow it to focus on cargo transport instead of passenger travel, the company said. The ...

Hyperloop, a new form of mass transit involving capsules whizzing on magnetic fields through depressurized tubes, has achieved significant liftoff in the northern Netherlands, a company developing the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Virgin Hyperloop has ...

Elon Musk's ambitious Hyperloop transportation concept is now up at JumpStartFund, a collaborative startup platform that hopes to refine the idea and get it paid for. Nick Statt was a staff reporter ...

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 ...