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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sub-Saharan Africa can have high-speed internet access without needing to lay any cables. There are many areas of the world where high-speed internet access isn't viable yet, at least through the well ...

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 ...

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 ...

The arrival of ChatGPT in 2022 instantly made OpenAI one of the key players in the artificial intelligence (AI) space. On ...

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 ...

Alphabet Inc.’s X unit today detailed Project Amber, an internal initiative launched three years ago to give mental health professionals access to better tools for measuring brain waves. The unit is ...

Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ways tech and science are changing your life. Expertise Erin has been a tech reporter for almost 10 years. Her reporting has taken her ...

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.

Nick Statt is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Alphabet’s X lab, the former Google division that launched the Waymo ...