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 ...

Think back to a bygone era of Elon Musk — when he talked less about blue checks on Twitter and more about blue-sky ideas to colonize Mars, reuse rockets, and tackle climate change. One of his ...

Rendering of the winning conceptual design for a Hyperloop pod by a team of MIT students (all images courtesy MIT) In 2013, tech billionaire and “real life Iron Man” Elon Musk first proposed his ...

Elon Musk’s tunnel startup The Boring Company plans to begin “full-scale” testing of hyperloop, a still theoretical transportation system that sends passengers in autonomous electric pods through a ...

Scenes from the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Design Competition Weekend, Friday afternoon, Jan. 29, 2016, at Texas A&M University, in College Station, Texas. (Timothy Hurst/The Eagle) ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk wants to jump-start his Hyperloop high-speed transit system. Musk’s rocket-building company, SpaceX, announced Monday that it plans to build a 1-mile test ...

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 ...

Just when you may have thought the idea of the Hyperloop was dead, one of the largest companies working on the technology has unveiled how it plans to use the system to “revolutionize shipping.” That ...

Hmm, does it violate the known laws of physics? If not, I don't see the harm in people spending their time/money/effort on realizing a "cool sounding" idea, as you say yourself. And part of that idea ...