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An Alphabet X innovation lab project has been working on a high-speed wireless optical communications network that uses beams of light instead of cables or radio waves, and folks in Kenya will be the first to benefit from the fruits of these labors.Con… Continue reading Alphabet project uses light beams to bring broadband to remote regions
Alphabet’s X moonshot factory is a research group working to solve big-picture ideas through technological innovation, and for its latest venture the team is turning its attention to sustainable farming. Called Mineral, the project aims to leverage cut… Continue reading Alphabet builds a plant-inspecting buggy for sustainable farming
After a long series of test runs and stints serving disaster-struck populations in Puerto Rico and Peru, Alphabet’s internet-beaming Project Loon balloons have taken on their first commercial task. The company has now deployed the high-flying communica… Continue reading Alphabet’s internet balloons take on first commercial task in Kenya
It covers almost three quarters of the Earth, but we know only a fraction of what lies beneath the ocean’s surface. Google’s parent company Alphabet has today launched a new initiative called Tidal aimed at changing that, with an overarching objective … Continue reading Alphabet launches Tidal, a moonshot to save the world’s oceans
Twitter isn’t interested in how the “synthetic or manipulated” media is created, but if it has the potential to cause harm it’ll be removed. Continue reading Twitter bans deepfakes, but only those ‘likely to cause harm’
In earnings reported this week, Alphabet announced that Google Cloud generated a robust $2.61 billion for the quarter, a number that includes revenue from both Google Cloud Platform and G Suite. That puts the division on a nice little run rate of $10.44 billion. It feels like a lot until you consider that Microsoft had a […] Continue reading Google Cloud makes strides but still has a long way to go
Google’s parent company Alphabet reports a total revenue of $46.08 billion in Q4 2019, with YouTube bringing in a total ad revenue of $15 billion in 2019.
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Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down as Alphabet leaders, handing off their responsibilities to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
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Read the full memo written by a departing Google employee on his experience as a Black person at Google. Continue reading Here’s the Memo About the ‘Burden of Being Black at Google’
Google and its flagship search portal opened the door to the possibilities of how to build a business empire on the back of organising and navigating the world’s information, as found on the internet. Now, a startup that’s built a search engine tailored to the needs of enterprises and their own quests for information has […] Continue reading AlphaSense, a search engine for analysis and business intel, raises $50M led by Innovation Endeavors