Google X

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  Google X Introduces Taara Chip to Enable High-Speed Internet via Light Beams

  Google X has unveiled the Taara chip, a silicon photonics device that transmits high-speed internet via light beams. Unlike traditional fiber-optic cables, which require extensive underground installation, this technology provides a cost-effective and scalable alternative. Field tests demonstrated speeds of 10 Gbps over a one-kilometre distance. De...

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  Google Parent Alphabet's Verily Unit Halts Glucose-Detecting Contact Lens Project

  Verily, which was previously part of the tech firm's Google X research and development unit, had partnered with Novartis' eye-care division, Alcon, to develop the lens.

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  Google X Lab Director Rich DeVaul Leaves in Midst of Sexual Misconduct Tensions

  Google parent Alphabet on Wednesday confirmed that an executive accused of sexual harassment left the company without an exit package.

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  Google Parent Says Its Project Loon Balloons Are Now Delivering 4G LTE to Puerto Rico

  Several more balloons are on their way from Nevada, and Alphabet has been authorized by the US FCC to send up to 30 balloons to serve the hard-hit area.

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  Google's Project Loon to Help Restore Wireless Services in Puerto Rico

  Loon, part of a series of futuristic projects out of Alphabet's "X" laboratory, was originally created to provide Internet coverage in under-developed rural areas.

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  Google Glass Enterprise Edition Goes on Sale, Starting $1,829

  Google sells the eye-wearable device with 'Glass for Work' partners which are authorised to develop and deliver enterprise solutions for Glass customers.

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  Google Glass Enterprise Edition Officially Unveiled, Now Available to More Firms

  Google Glass 2.0 or Google Glass Enterprise Edition has been tipped for a while, and on Tuesday, the search giant finally made the wearables official.

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  Google's Daunting Challenge With Alphabet Is How to Organise Itself

  Google, a company known for its engineering excellence, is still trying to solve the very human problem of how to organise itself.

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  Alphabet's Verily to Embark on Health-Mapping Study

  The Project Baseline study intends to collect broad health data from approximately 10,000 participants over the course of at least four years.

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  Google Parent's Project Loon Internet-Beaming Balloons a Step Closer to Deployment

  Alphabet expects Project Loon to be partnering in coming months with telecom companies to provide Internet to "real users".

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  Google Parent Alphabet Shutters Titan Internet-Delivering Drone Project

  "The team from Titan was brought into X in late 2015," the spokesperson said in an email to AFP.

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  A Year of Alphabet: Great for Google, Less So for Moonshots

  Alphabet was supposed to speed the process of turning offshoot businesses into new technological jackpots.

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  Google Parent Alphabet Unit to Drop Burritos by Drone

  "We want to learn how people feel when they're receiving a package by air, and taking someone's time and/or money changes things more than a little."

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  Google Parent Alphabet Joins Drone Tests as US Considers New Rules

  Alphabet's Project Wing will work at one of the six research centres set up by the Federal Aviation Administration for drone tests.

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  Google Is Letting You Inside Its Moonshot Lab to Justify Its Existence

  Astro Teller has outlined some of the principles that he says help keep X - formerly Google X - hungry and on track.