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 ...

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 ...

The first images of what the Hyperloop, tubular transportation system of the near future, could look like have surfaced. The images come courtesy of Hyperloop and UCLA's Hyperloop SUPRASTUDIO, which ...

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 ...

A full-scale Virgin Hyperloop cargo pod and a cutaway passenger pod as part of Dubai’s DP World’s FLOW pavilion at Expo 2020. Credit: Virgin Hyperloop via REUTERS The fundamental problem is the lack ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. In a 2021 post, titled "Is the Hyperloop for Real?," we ...

Big tech is always looking for creative [expensive] solutions to problems that have been solved for decades. The hyperloop program, funded by Virgin and millions of dollars in tax incentives from the ...

Traveling from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 35 minutes may seem like a fantasy, but for Virgin, the Hyperloop is well on its way to becoming a reality. On Nov. 8, 2020, a successful test run proved ...

Virgin Hyperloop intends to send pods rushing through a low-pressure tube at 670 miles per hour — but its first passenger test fell short of that. While speed is impressive, Josh Giegel, a cofounder ...

A 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 and freight. The tube is the heart of ...