MOUNTAIN VIEW -- In a rare public speech, Google CEO Larry Page once suggested the tech industry needs "safe places where we can try out new things" without rules or interference. Some people thought ...

On a cold morning in February 2015, a group of men left the spacious Google X headquarters in Mountain View, California, before daybreak. They traveled more than two hours east to some trailers parked ...

Astro Teller’s official title is “Captain of Moonshots” at Google X. The position sounds like a dream job an 11-year-old might make up, and his biggest tip for being productive stays true to that ...

Not all ambitious projects can materialize. Google X, a company responsible for "moonshot" projects under Alphabet, works on making pretty outlandish ideas a reality. The most ubiquitous of which is ...

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There’s no doubt that Google is becoming a full-fledged hardware company, but the latest Google X project is a lot different that tablets and smartphones — the company just announced that it’s ...

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When they’re thinking as big as balloon-powered Internet access for the world’s disconnected, the Project Loon team has to be as diverse as possible–while still speaking the same language. Cooking up ...

Richard DeVaul, an executive at X, the semi-secret research and development arm of Google parent Alphabet, is no longer employed there as of Tuesday evening, as Axios first reported and a source ...