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Elon Musk's Boring Company has been illegally dumping toxic waste byproduct for months, landing itself a $500k fine from local officials.

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Caught Hiding Toxic Waste Pond in Vegas

Bath & Body Works is pumping vanilla and fresh pine scent into the tunnels connecting the Grand Central Station subway in New York.

Corporation Pumping Soothing Gas Into New York Subway Station

By Victor Tangermann

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy threatened to ground all commercial flights in the United States amid a prolonged government shutdown.

Head of NASA Threatens to Ground Every Single Commercial Flight Before Thanksgiving

By Victor Tangermann

New safety data suggests that Waymo's robotaxis are astonishingly safe — perhaps far safer than we give them credit for.

New Data Shows Waymos Are So Safe That It’s Almost Comical

By Victor Tangermann

A video of one of Waymo's autonomous ride-hailing vehicles driving over the carefully groomed lawn of a golf course has gone viral.

Waymo Says There’s a Perfect Reasonable Explanation for Its Car Roaming a Golf Course

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese engineers recently announced a prototype maglev train had successfully reached speeds of up to 650 kilometers per hour.

China Working On Levitating Train That Could Get You From New York to Chicago in Two Hours

The European Hyperloop Center in the Netherlands has opened a new quarter-mile test tube made out of white-painted steel segments.

Netherlands Builds Quarter-Mile Hyperloop Tube for Testing

By Victor Tangermann

After raising almost half a billion dollars in funding since being founded in 2014, Hyperloop One is shutting down.

The Hyperloop Is Dead. Long Live the Hyperloop.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has dismantled its one-mile-long Hyperloop test tunnel at its factory in Hawthorne, California — only to make way for more parking spots.

SpaceX Dismantles Hyperloop Prototype to Build a New Parking Lot

By Victor Tangermann

China claims to have become the first to successfully carry out tests on a Hyperloop-style, magnetically levitated train inside a vacuum tube.

China Successfully Tests Hyperloop-Like Train Inside a Vacuum Tube

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's Boring Company is attempting to "build a working Hyperloop," in the "coming years," according to the billionaire.

Elon Musk Says Boring Company Will Build Underground Hyperloop

By Victor Tangermann

Virign Hyperloop, the company leading the charge on making the transportation system a reality, has laid off 111 workers, almost half of its staff.

Virgin Hyperloop Just Laid Off Almost Half Its Employees

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin Hyperloop has released a new video showing off what the experience of traveling inside a Hyperloop pod could end up looking like.

Here’s What Traveling By Hyperloop Could Look Like

By Victor Tangermann

In the middle of the Nevada desert north of Las Vegas, the first-ever passengers just completed a major milestone over the weekend: riding the "Hyperloop."

The First-Ever Passengers Just Rode a Functional Hyperloop

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin Hyperloop has made the reasonable decision to learn what 600 MPH travel does to the brain before transporting passengers at 600 MPH.

Virgin Hyperloop Wonders: What Does 600 MPH Travel Do to the Brain?

By Dan Robitzski

Virgin Hyperloop One has announced it is planning to build a certification center in West Virginia with construction of a test loop starting in 2022.

Richard Branson Is Building a Hyperloop Testing Center in West Virginia

By Victor Tangermann