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AI robots should not look like us, says Ex-Google robotics moonshot boss as he explains what he learnt at the company
Elon Musk has envisioned a future with common robots, but Hans Peter Brondmo, former head of Google…
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Google hired me as a UX engineer without a college degree. I pushed past imposter syndrome to land the job.
Edwin Toh was born and raised in Singapore before he took an internship in NYC. In 2018, he was hi…
Claire Turrell
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Google is the new IBM
Years of being one-upped on AI and cracking down on innovation turned the poster child for Silicon …
Hugh Langley,Lara O'Reil…
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Google's most cutting-edge moonshot lab is refocusing on actually making money
After years of burning Google's cash to pursue lofty, sci-fi dreams, the X labs are pivoting toward…
Matt Weinberger
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Google X loses another team leader
Emi Kolawole, a project leader at Google's Moonshot factory X, left recently as the company shifts …
Monica Melton
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The era of the Big Tech moonshot is over
Big Tech companies like Google and Amazon have for years pursued "moonshot" ideas. But amid a disma…
Jordan Parker Erb
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Google's Android strategy looks like it's unravelling
With its Play Store and Search agreements under threat, one of Google's core business models could …
Hugh Langley
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Google sank billions into flailing 'moonshot projects' after it rebranded to Alphabet. Facebook, now Meta, could face the same fate.
We're seeing "history repeat itself" as Meta spends $10 billion on the metaverse - Alphabet's "Othe…
Katie Canales
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Google's parent company is flying balloons with 'floating cell phone towers' across the ocean to bring internet to Kenya's Rift Valley
Right now, Loon stations are mostly used after disasters take out existing infrastructure, or in pl…
Mary Meisenzahl
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Google confirms that its cofounder Sergey Brin played a key role in creating its ChatGPT rival
The Google cofounder, who along with Larry Page stepped back from the company in 2019, is listed as…
Tom Carter
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When Pichai waited for two full days to get a response to an e-mail from his dad
As Google celebrates its 25th birthday this month, its CEO Sundar Pichai has reminisced about how t…
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Dara Khosrowshahi hits the kill switch on Uber's moonshots
In this week's edition of Insider Tech we look at Uber's spinoff spree, Elon Musk's wish for a Mars…
Alexei Oreskovic
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The walls are closing in on Google. Here's what it needs to do to survive.
From layoffs to antitrust issues, Google's challenges are piling up, and AI competition looming ove…
Paayal Zaveri
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Google Glass is graduating from Google's moonshot division with the launch of its second-generation enterprise product
Original Google Glass prototypes were built for consumers and made available for fans and journalis…
Nick Bastone
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Sidewalk Labs has laid off half of its Toronto employees after the Alphabet moonshot abandoned plans for a $900 million smart city
After abandoning plans for a $900 million smart neighborhood, Sidewalk Labs has laid off around 20 …
Hugh Langley
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Here's how Google has changed throughout the decade, from its quirky campus to its famous 'moonshots'
The startup had expanded past its humble garage headquarters to a large campus in Mountain View, Ca…
Bani Sapra
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Chronicle, an Alphabet moonshot, says it's 'a completely separate company' from Google - but it runs on Google's 'core infrastructure'
Beyond pricing, the person said that the decision to use Google infrastructure had at least a littl…
Nick Bastone
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A former Google exec warned about the dangers of AI saying it is 'beyond an emergency' and 'bigger than climate change'
Mo Gawdat said AI is more likely to cause disruption to "the entire planet" than climate change in …
Sawdah Bhaimiya
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Not even Google's cleaning robots are safe from the tech industry's layoffs and cost-cutting efforts
Google is shutting down Everyday Robots, a subsidiary that made robots that could perform simple ta…