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Is The Google Moonshot Dead?
Since Google morphed into a new company called Alphabet last year, there’s been an apparent bloodbath for the tech giant’s popular (and costly) “moonshot” projects. These longer-term, riskier ventures are suddenly being held to account for the amount of money they were losing. The result hasn’t been pretty. Alphabet has since systematically killed many of…
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A Brief History Of People Thinking Google’s Loon Balloons Are UFOs (Including Australia)
Some South African sheep got a nasty little surprise earlier this week when a Google-branded internet balloon came tumbling down from the heavens to say hello. The sheep are in good company though, because this happens — a lot. And fortunately for the conspiracy theorists among us, this means all the UFO fodder their chemtrail-addled…
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Google X’s Vice President Just Got A Spot In The White House
The White House has announced Google X’s vice president Megan Smith as the next chief technology officer in the US, filling the void vacated by former CTO Todd Park last month. The CTO position was officially created by Obama back in 2009, when he was much more worried about the crushing Great Recession and bloated…
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Photos: A Rare Look Inside Google’s Secret Labs Where They Invent Amazing New Things
Google recently granted a rare tour of its closely guarded Google X labs, the place where Google invents all sorts of fantastic new technology like Glass, self-driving cars, Internet-enabled contact lenses for diabetics — even a space elevator and a hoverboard.