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 ...

A small team will stay on to wrap up Loon's pilot service in Kenya. (Photo via Alphabet Inc.) Alphabet subsidiary Loon, which used high-altitude balloons to create an aerial wireless network, is ...

As they mature, finding new growth drivers will become a hot-button issue for Internet powerhouses Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). So it should be no surprise that ...

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 ...

Alphabet this week became just the fourth company to achieve a market capitalization of $3 trillion. Monitor these key chart ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...