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 ...

Project Loon and Project Wing had been incubating in Alphabet's 'moonshot factory' called X. Now they're becoming independent businesses. When he's not battling bugs and robots in Helldivers 2, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Is Google parent company Alphabet planning to test high-altitude balloons to deliver Internet coverage across the United States? The Internet giant has asked the Federal Communications ...

Today, Alphabet announced that Project Shield is widening its scope. The free service is now expanding to include protecting any registered political organization from DDoS attacks. This includes ...

Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., has had a lot of success with its X research division in the past; Chronicle, Waymo, and Verily were all substantial and successful enough to become their own ...

When Google launched Project Loon a few years ago, the plan was to provide internet access to underserved areas with the help of a series of balloons that would constantly circumnavigate the earth.

Alphabet's Project Loon is running into some figurative turbulence in addition to the literal kind. Tom Moore, the satellite executive who was brought on as CEO to help Project Loon become a ...

The last we heard, Alphabet’s smart city project was on hold due to privacy concerns, but now it’s moving forward--possibly even bigger than originally planned. Indeed, residents and local government ...

Alphabet today announced that it is calling it quits on its efforts to build and monetize its Makani wind energy kites. Makani, which was founded in 2006, came into Google/Alphabet seven years ago as ...