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Alphabet bursts its balloon-powered internet plans
Google's parent company is shutting down Loon, which aimed to deliver internet access to underserved areas, because the business ...
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Alphabet X has built a ‘plant buggy’ — a cute AI farmer
The crop-inspecting robot is part of a new Alphabet X "computational agriculture" project called Mineral.
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Alphabet raises $10B with the biggest, cheapest bond sale in its history
The motivation behind Alphabet's bond sale, its first in four years, remains unclear, as the Google parent sits on $121B ...
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Alphabet’s site for free coronavirus tests is now live
Verily, an Alphabet subsidiary, is collaborating with the California Governor’s office, federal, state and local public health authorities, to help people in the Bay Area with COVID-19 screening. Through its new site, which is part of a larger health initiative called Project ...
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Alphabet's AI-powered camera system will help fish live their best lives
Google parent company Alphabet has launched Tidal, a project that uses underwater cameras connected to computer vision software ...
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Alphabet’s Jigsaw introduces a tool that can verify ‘fake’ images — but it’s probably not for you
Jigsaw's Assembler is a free media manipulation verifierl for journalists and fact-checkers — but not members of the public ...
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Alphabet joins the trillion-dollar club
Google's parent company, Alphabet, is now the fourth US company to attain a market value of more than $1 trillion, after ...
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Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin step aside as Pichai becomes Alphabet CEO
It's a big day in Mountain View. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin today announced they are stepping down from their roles as CEOs of parent company Alphabet. Sundar Pichai, previously Google's head honcho, now takes the reins and becomes CEO of both Google and Alphabet. Page ...
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Alphabet is investigating Google's handling of recent sexual harassment claims
Alphabet’s board of directors launched an investigation into how Google’s executives handle claims of sexual harassment ...
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How Alphabet's Jigsaw think tank is fighting radicalization online
Jigsaw — a unit within Alphabet — is one of the most important projects working towards countering cyber attacks, censorship, and online extremism. Using AI and machine learning, Jigsaw is tackling political challenges with technology, not policy. One of their most recent ...
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Alphabet's drone division will begin trialing aerial deliveries in Finland next year
In July, I wrote about how Wing – one of Google X’s pet drone projects – “graduated” to become a full company under ...
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Full moon patents: Alphabet isn’t giving up on Google Glass
Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, y’all. The September-ish roundup lands ...
