Climate Change Alphabet is in talks to spin out its molten-salt storage play Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures is involved in the deal. by James Temple 2018-06-21T16:01:00-04:00
Smart Cities Alphabet’s moonshot chief: Regulating driverless cars demands testing the “smarts” of the systems Astro Teller says Waymo stress-tests its vehicles under “pathological situations,” some involving people in Elmo outfits. by James Temple 2018-03-27T15:15:00-04:00
Silicon Valley Exclusive: Alphabet X is exploring new ways to use AI in food production Astro Teller says it’s thinking about how to pair machine learning with other technologies to revolutionize agriculture. by Martin Giles 2018-03-27T12:05:00-04:00
Tech Policy Terrible people have learned to exploit the internet. Yasmin Green is fighting back. The Jigsaw team at Alphabet brings people who were radicalized online back from the brink, one video at a time. by Martin Giles 2018-02-19T00:00:00-05:00
Connectivity The Woman Battling Hate Speech, Censorship, and Extremism Online (and Off) Yasmin Green, head of R&D for Alphabet’s Jigsaw, is using technology in hopes of making the world a better place. It’s not easy. by Rachel Metz 2017-11-08T16:32:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Humans Are Still Better Than AI at StarCraft—for Now A StarCraft gamer won 4-0 in the world’s first contest between AI systems and professional human players. by Yoochul Kim and Minhyung Lee 2017-11-01T15:38:00-04:00
Artificial Intelligence AlphaGo Zero Shows Machines Can Become Superhuman Without Any Help An upgraded version of the game-playing AI teaches itself every trick in the Go book, using a new form of machine learning. by Will Knight 2017-10-18T13:00:00-04:00
Smart Cities The Startup Behind NYC’s Plan to Replace Phone Booths with 7,500 Connected Kiosks Intersection, which is funded by Alphabet, hopes they could someday guide autonomous vehicles, too. by Elizabeth Woyke 2017-07-18T00:00:00-04:00
Biotechnology Verily Robot Will Raise 20 Million Sterile Mosquitoes for Release in California The company, an arm of Alphabet, is using mosquitoes infected with a sterilizing bacteria to fight dengue and Zika. by Emily Mullin 2017-07-14T10:59:00-04:00
Computing Google Stakes Its Future on a Piece of Software Alphabet, number 5 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, thinks it can wrest the cloud computing market away from Amazon by helping companies make use of machine learning with a tool called TensorFlow. by Tom Simonite 2017-06-27T07:00:00-04:00
