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HyperSciences CEO Mark Russell

HyperSciences pushes ahead to next stage of blaster technology (and fundraising)

HyperSciences has raised more than $9 million for its hypersonic blaster technology using an unusual crowdfunding model, but now it’s… Read More

Tesla in Boring Company tunnel

Elon Musk shows off Boring Company’s test tunnel in Tesla-centric beta mode

The Boring Company’s hole in the ground in Hawthorne, Calif., got a Hollywood-style debut tonight courtesy of the company’s billionaire… Read More

Boring Company breakthrough

Elon Musk celebrates Boring Company’s big breakthrough at end of test tunnel

The Boring Company’s “cutting-edge technology” got a shout-out from billionaire founder Elon Musk tonight after the venture’s tunneling machine, nicknamed… Read More

Dugout Loop terminus

Elon Musk’s Boring Company takes a swing at building Dugout Loop to Dodger Stadium

Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s tunneling venture, the Boring Company, is getting the go-ahead sign on a project to build a… Read More

HyperSciences' Mark Russell

HyperSciences wins support for ram accelerator from NASA, Shell — and from crowdfunding

Things are looking up, and looking down, for HyperSciences Inc. Either way, that’s good news for the four-year-old hypersonic startup… Read More

Elon Musk: Chicago express tunnel could be started in 4 months, finished in 3 years

News Brief: Mark this down for later: Tech billionaire Elon Musk says the Boring Company could begin work on the… Read More

Elon Musk and Steve Davis

L.A. tunnel rides for $1: Six takeaways from Elon Musk’s Boring Company talk

If billionaire Elon Musk’s tunnel vision comes to pass, travelers will be able to zip beneath Los Angeles through an… Read More

Tunnel pod

Elon Musk sweetens the pitch for his tunnel vision with space travel (and candy)

Billionaire Elon Musk is talking up his tunnel-boring vision at a public forum in Los Angeles tonight, and hinting that… Read More

Boring Company tunnel

Elon Musk says Boring Company could soon give ‘free rides’ through L.A. tunnel

The details may be fuzzy, but billionaire Elon Musk says he’s aiming to open the Boring Company’s first test tunnel… Read More

Boring Company tunnel

Elon Musk’s Boring Company raises $113M for tunnels, with Musk investing the most

A newly reported investment round has brought in $112.5 million for the Boring Company, the venture that billionaire techie Elon… Read More

Elon Musk in his tunnel

Elon Musk takes the wraps off the Boring Company’s next product line: bricks

What do you do for an encore after you’ve sold 20,000 flamethrowers? If you’re billionaire Elon Musk, you sell rocks.… Read More

Uber air taxi boarding

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi takes up Elon Musk’s challenge on flying cars vs. tunnels

Pop up some more popcorn: Billionaire Elon Musk has gotten himself into another CEO vs. CEO challenge, this time with… Read More

Hyperloop concept

Elon Musk says his Boring Company will bid to build a transit ‘loop’ for Chicago

A loop to the Loop? It could happen: Billionaire Elon Musk says he’s willing to build an express transit system… Read More

Tunnel boring machine

Elon Musk’s Boring Company digs into a plan for tunnel from Baltimore to D.C.

One of billionaire Elon Musk’s lesser-known ventures is taking the spotlight with word that The Boring Company is planning to… Read More

Car elevator test

Elon Musk shows off car elevator test for the Boring Company’s fast-track tunnel

Billionaire Elon Musk’s grand scheme for underground car tunnels will require elevators to get the cars in those tunnels – and… Read More

Tunnel boring machine

Elon Musk unveils a parking lot prototype for The Boring Company’s car elevator

The billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, says he spends only about 2 percent of his time working… Read More

Tunnel boring machine

Warning: Elon Musk posts dizzying views of his first tunnel boring tests in L.A.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, demonstrated once again that he’s serious about boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles. But… Read More

Elon Musk Boring Company transit tunnel

Elon Musk digs into his fixation with boring transit tunnels in a non-boring TED talk

When billionaire Elon Musk sat down for a 40-minute TED talk last week in Vancouver, B.C., he could have started… Read More

Image: Elon Musk

Elon Musk drops hints about Donald Trump, a carbon tax … and an L.A. tunnel?

Billionaire brainiac Elon Musk already has a lot on his hands with Tesla, SpaceX and the quest to make humanity… Read More

Amazon subterranean network

Amazon is granted a patent for using a subterranean network to deliver packages

Maybe it shouldn’t be that surprising that Amazon has patented a system for delivering goods via a dedicated network of underground… Read More

Bertha machine in December 2015

Elon Musk says he’s serious about boring tunnels, but he shouldn’t dig too deep

Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, insists he’s really going to build a tunnel-boring machine to… Read More

Here’s what is blocking Bertha, the world’s largest tunneling machine

Bertha, the world’s biggest tunnel-boring machine currently underneath Seattle, has been stuck for nearly one month. Now, crews are close… Read More

Welcome to Seattle, Bertha: World’s largest tunnel boring machine arrives in Emerald City

(Video above is from our news partner, KING5) Welcome to Seattle, Bertha. Coming all the way from Osaka, Japan, the… Read More

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