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Alphabet launches Tidal, a moonshot to save the world's oceans
It covers almost three quarters of the Earth, but we know only a fraction of what lies beneath the ocean’s surface. Google’s parent company Alphabet has today launched a new initiative called Tidal aimed at changing that.
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Alphabet’s Google to Fold Chrome Operating System Into Android
Alphabet’s Google plans to fold its Chrome operating system for personal computers into its Android mobile-operating system, a sign of the growing dominance of mobile computing.
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Google hires ex-Hyundai CEO to head up self driving car project
Google has hired auto industry veteran and former Hyundai U.S. CEO John Krafcik to run its self-driving car program. He is credited with turning around Hyundai's U.S. operations.
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Google has a new logo
Google has changed a lot over the past 17 years—from the range of our products to the evolution of their look and feel. And today we’re changing things up once again.
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Google's smart contact lenses just went from concept to reality
Last year we learned that Google was embarking on a project to make smart contact lenses for measuring glucose levels. That project led to the formation of a whole health-focused unit, the Life Sciences team, which has just graduated into its own standalone Alphabet company.
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Don’t Be Evil: Google, Alphabet, and Machiavelli.
Protecting Google from political contamination from Alphabet’s wider activities is not just necessary for Google—it’s necessary for Alphabet. Google search is mostly safe, mostly helpful, and free: by associating it with grace and favor, as Machiavelli advises, Alphabet can contain possible affairs of reproach elsewhere in its portfolio. This is shrewd statecraft.
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