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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is a new company recruiting those interested in realizing Musk’s dream of a next-generation ground transportation system costing $6 billion, which could ...

During a Google4Entrepreneurs hangout on Aug. 8, Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave a hint as to what the Hyperloop design would look like. (Photo/Video: Google) ...

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 ...