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Connecticut residents can purchase geothermal heating and cooling systems from Dandelion...

Convenience and innovation are reaching new heights as drones are set to fly in the skies...

During an interview, a former Google executive said that humanity could be looking at an apocalypse because were creating god.

A group of insurgent investors backed by the three largest pension funds in America are...

Googles Project Wolverine allows superhuman hearing Googles parent company, X. Now, rumors say, X is developing something straight out of sci-fi comics. Dubbed as Wolverine, as a nod to the X-Men character with superhuman senses, thhe device is aimed to enhance human hearing to superhuman levels. Several former Google employees have confirmed the projects existance to Wolverine is basically an ear-piece that is connected to extremely sensitive microphones, coupled with sci-fi level o...

Malta has raised a $50 million Series B round to bring its super-long-duration energy storage to market, the company said Wednesday. The startup spun out of Google parent company Alphabets moonshot factory, X, in 2018. Many startups tackling energy storage breakthroughs have looked to batteries and other electrochemical devices. Malta turned instead to thermal energy: It uses grid power to compress air for storage in hot molten salts and cold antifreeze liquid. A heat engine later converts ...

"Taking moonshots is always a risky proposition," said X director Astro Teller.

To a story about someone who might become a millionaire but in the right way to silicon valley theres a start up with a difference in oklahoma farm boy had a vision he thought he could feet the world and in the process solve some of the most pressing problems faced by farmers and farming practices on the planet brandon alexander has started the worlds first robotic farming enterprise other automated indoor farms have been tried previously a project by google x. laboratory flopped because the mul...

In this weeks american opportunities segment shes a tech big wig who used to run google x, the group behind google glass and the driverless car. megan smith packed up earlier this year and moved to washington to become the chief technology officer of the united states. one of her goals is finding ways to bring access to technology and opportunity from it to those who need it most. >> for the country that has a rover on mars and we also have one in four american children in poverty, and so the op...

And really can be and can include everyone in. >> it sounds to me like poverty and income inequality is something that tugs at your heart a lot. >> i just think its an extraordinary waste of talent. we have such low expectations for how to solve and for some of our young people like one group of young people gets to go to the science fair and work on all these internships and do this stuff and one group of young people is not expected to do that. we need to change that point of view. >> you can ...