Los Angeles has hosted some opulent soirees in its time. Yet few have sounded so prosaic as the bash staged in late-2018 by a firm called the Boring Company. Taking place at a dusty parking lot near ...

Five years ago, billionaire Elon Musk open-sourced his plan for a supersonic train-like thing. Today it's still a work in progress. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his ...

The reality is we don’t really hear all that much about the evolution of hyperloops. The companies are like underground moles, sneakily operating in stealth mode on all matters of engineering and ...

Elon Musk is very much an ideas man. He regularly comes out with elaborate solutions to the world's problems. His musings have included robotaxis, nuking the Martians, and brain chips capable of ...

Although the technology needed to propel people through near-vacuum tubes at around the speed of sound is still years away, every now and then Hyperloop developers like to share their vision of what ...

The Hyperloop has a need for speed and a team of students from the Technical University of Munich is providing it. At the third SpaceX pod contest on Sunday, Germany’s WARR Hyperloop team pulled off a ...

Backers of the proposed Chicago-Columbus-Pittsburgh ultra-high-speed hyperloop route are launching a required feasibility study funded by several organizations, including the cities of Columbus and ...