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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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• 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 ...

  • Napier Lopez

• 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 ...

  • Cara Curtis

• 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 ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• 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 ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran

• 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 ...

  • Dhiraj Jindal

• Alphabet Inc. shareholders reject employee-backed diversity proposals

  Alphabet Inc. shareholders today voted down several proposals that would tie pay to diversity goals in an effort to promote equal wages among females and people of color. "At Alphabet, diversity and inclusion activities by individual contributors have been met with a disorganized ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Alphabet's Outline lets you run your own self-hosted VPN for free

  Jigsaw, an incubator that's part of Google's parent company, Alphabet, has launched Outline, an open-source virtual private ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Alphabet's new security company wants to help 'the good guys' fight cybercrime

  Google's parent company, Alphabet, has started a new firm called Chronicle to help large enterprises protect themselves from ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal