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Boston Dynamics Shows Off Handle, A Six-Foot Tall ‘Nightmare-Inducing’ Robot

The two-wheeled robot showed off some of its impressive athletic capabilities

8 years ago

Google’s Project Loon Leaps Forward With Weather-Predicting Machine Learning

Google is now "years closer" to rolling out a network of the balloons thanks to machine learning

8 years ago

Google Vows To Fight After Being Ordered To Hand Over Foreign Emails

'We will appeal,' says Google after latest round of tech vs government court battles

8 years ago

Advertising & Hardware Boost Google Alphabet As Cloud Benefits Microsoft Revenues

Strong results from two tech titans after both Alphabet and Microsoft recorded positive financials

8 years ago

Google Officially Ditches Project Titan Drone Broadband

Engineers scattered to other divisions as Titan doesn't make enough progress to continue

8 years ago

Google’s Alphabet Launches Waymo Driverless Car Company

Google's driverless car development appears to be nearing fruition

8 years ago

Google Builds Up Self-Driving Cars Team Ahead Of Moonshot Graduation

Alphabet is advertising for a head of real estate to establish a new base for its autonomous project when it…

8 years ago

Google Parent Alphabet Reaps Advertising Rewards

Strong quarter for Google's parent powered by advertising strength, YouTube and other services

8 years ago

Google Begins Development Of Fuchsia Open-Source OS

Unlike Android and Chrome, Google's new operating system will not be based on the Linux kernel. The new OS will…

8 years ago

GlaxoSmithKline Teams With Alphabet To Create Galvani Bioelectronics

GSK is to draw on Alphabet's electronics and data analytics know-how for a new spinoff

8 years ago

Google’s Data Centre Expansion Hurts Alphabet Profits

Moonshots and cloud expansion take their toll, but Google says it is now set up for long term growth

9 years ago

Europe ‘Readies’ Formal Android Antitrust Charges

Google showdown with the European Commission deepens as regulators finalise Android antitrust charges

9 years ago

Dropcam Founder Criticises Google Nest And Mocks Revenue

After reading negative comments from Nest CEO Tony Fadell, Dropcam founder Greg Duffy makes Medium riposte calling out Nest's acquisition…

9 years ago

Google’s Alphabet Places ‘For Sale’ Sign On Boston Dynamics

Google reportedly signals retreat from robotics and looks for buyers of Boston Dynamics division

9 years ago

Google’s Sundar Pichai Is Now The Best Paid CEO In The World

Major payday for Sundar Pichai following latest stock award

9 years ago

Alphabet More Valuable Than Apple As Google’s Core Business Beats Expectations

But operating loss from Alphabet's self-driving cars and other moonshots increases to £2.5 billion

9 years ago

Google Takes Major Next Step On Driverless Cars

Research into autonomous vehicles to be separate company under Alphabet umbrella

9 years ago

Google Hires VMware Co Founder Diane Greene As New Cloud Head

Diane Greene will head up Google's cloud efforts as it seeks to make greater impact on business market

9 years ago

Larry Page Reveals More About Alphabet

Rare public talk from Google co-founder sees Project Loon hailed and more details on Alphabet, which Page says will foster…

9 years ago

Google To ‘Merge’ Android And Chrome Operating Systems

Android and Chrome hybrid set to appear in 2017, according to reports

9 years ago

Google’s Project Loon Set For Massive Indonesian Trial

Google X's balloon Internet project looks to reach 100 million Indonesians

9 years ago

Google Parent Alphabet Benefits From Mobile Search, YouTube

What's in a name? Company reorganisation does not prevent Google from posting healthy profit and revenue increases

9 years ago

YouTube Is Finally Going Ad-Free – For A Price

Subscription-based YouTube Red service will launch next week and feature exclusive content

9 years ago

Google Casts Off Life Sciences Into Standalone Company

Google X's life sciences will now operate as its own Alphabet company with Andy Conrad as CEO

9 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Google And Alphabet

Test your Alphabet skills with our fun quiz on Google's new holding company

9 years ago

Alphabet Is Keeping Google Cloud Exactly The Way It Is

Blog: Google Cloud Platform won't be getting any special treatment as Alphabet restructures divisions, but is that going to prove…

9 years ago

Alphabet Allows An Ex-Google To Concentrate On The Moonshots Of A Brave New World

BLOG: With Google X free to fly without the restrictions of tentative shareholders, Google's anticipated future projects will really start…

9 years ago

Why Has Google Restructured Under A New Company Called Alphabet?

Larry Page spells out exactly why Google and its sister companies needed to shake things up

9 years ago