Google’s parent company Alphabet has decided to ground a venture aimed at bringing internet connectivity to remote corners of the globe through stratospheric balloons. The firm announced today that ...

A small team will stay on to wrap up Loon's pilot service in Kenya. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from ...

A secretive company is reportedly working on a top-secret plan to give people superhuman hearing. X, a company focused on moonshot ideas that’s owned and operated by the Google parent Alphabet, is now ...

Earlier this year Google’s parent company Alphabet introduced Project Taara, a wireless optical communication technology that beams high-speed data using lasers instead of optical fiber. Now Alphabet ...

In training demonstrations last year, the robots responded to someone saying they were hungry by getting a bag of chips for them. Now, it looks like they will be no more. Google’s parent company ...

Alphabet's "moonshot factory" X is working on a new project codenamed "Wolverine," according to a new leak, and it may involve a wearable that facilitates super-hearing capabilities. The project is ...

Alphabet's moonshot innovation lab X licensed technology from its agriculture startup Project Mineral to Driscoll's, so the family-owned fresh berry company based in California could continue working ...

The stratospheric balloons are now delivering limited mobile Internet services to remote areas of Puerto Rico where cellphone towers were knocked out by Hurricane Maria. In a company blog written by ...

What happened?Alphabet's Google has now announced that Project Fi will support data-only devices such as cellular-equipped tablets. Launched earlier this year, Project Fi is Google's push into the ...

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Alphabet just shut down Google X spinout Loon, the solar-powered internet balloon company. Google X is home to the company's ambitious "moonshot" projects, and includes self-driving car project Waymo.

A mosaic project is filling empty spaces with color in a downtown Hilo park. Markus came up with the idea when she saw the Lincoln Park and realized it needed something special and fun to attract more ...