New photos show Tesla's massive Nevada factory is coming along

 Guess we shouldn't be too surprised that the what's going to be world's largest factory...continues to get larger. 

Tesla's Gigafactory, a gleaming white structure amid the muted browns surrounding Reno, Nevada, seems to be coming along, according to photos snapped by NM Group, a company that describes itself as specializing in "surveying and mapping, asset modeling and management, and engineering."

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The group was recently mapping the area for potential power lines on behalf of an electricity company, according to Tim Hustwayte, a senior client manager based in the United Kingdom. The route took them close to the Gigafactory, and they got some shots that appear to show the factory having bulked up since Tesla's battery cell began rolling off production lines at the start of the year. 

 The Gigafactory employed nearly 3,000 people at the start of the year, less than half of how many people are expected to be employed there by the end of 2017. Some of those are temporary positions related to construction, but Bloomberg reports that 6,500 people will work full-time at the factory by 2018.  

At the start of the year, it wasn't close to being even 50 percent complete.

New York to London in three hours? This supersonic jet startup wants to make it a reality

Jet startup Boom believes the future is supersonic, and it's now got enough money to prove it.

The company announced on Thursday that it raised $33 million for its first major round of funding, enough for the company to build a demonstrator of its XB-1 supersonic aircraft. 

Boom first emerged in 2016 with grand plans to create supersonic passenger jets that could reach 1,450 miles per hour. The company hopes to test its XB-1 demonstrator in 2017, with commercial flights still a few years away. 

That aircraft will be one-third the size of the passenger aircraft that Boom hopes to eventually build. The XB-1 "will demonstrate in flight the key technologies for practical supersonic travel" — essentially proving that the company's technology and design can make supersonic flights safe and efficient. 

If successful, Boom would mark the first reintroduction of supersonic travel since the Concorde program was canceled following safety and cost concerns. 

Boom believes that its supersonic passenger jets will cut travel times for long flights. In one video, the company claimed its jets will fly New York to London in three hours as opposed to seven. 

The company already has a partnership with Virgin Group, including its manufacturing arm, The Spaceship Company. 

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