The Virgin Hyperloop made its first journey carrying passengers Sunday, in a test the company claimed represented a major step forward for the "groundbreaking" technology capable of transporting ...

I hear a movie theater. A Coke commercial. An Ed Sheeran song. A theme from Avatar. But I’m not listening to any of those things. It’s actually the new sonic identity for the Virgin Hyperloop. The ...

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%; ...

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 -- ...

Elon Musk described a dazzling vision: a transit system that could hurl passengers between cities at nearly the speed of sound. His paper on the topic spurred a cohort of big-thinking entrepreneurs to ...

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's hyperloop system uses magnetic levitation technology to reduce friction and low-pressure sealed vacuums along the track that minimize air resistance. Virgin Hyperloop Smithsonian's 175th ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whereas some dreamers are imagining a future when humanity is traveling among the stars, others are looking for solutions to more immediate problems, such as the faster and safer transportation of ...