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The company’s “moonshot factory” is letting anyone build and tweak the design of its new atmospheric water harvester.

10 years ago Larry, Sergey, and Sebastian offered me the chance to run a grand experiment — to build a moonshot factory. Initially we only had a fuzzy idea about exactly what X was going to do, but…

Farewell, flying future Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a world that's way more pedestrian than we ever expected. NOTE FOR 2020 READERS: This is the 14th in an award-winning series of open letters to the next century, now just one generation away. Babies born in more than 40 countries this year are expected to live to 2100 and beyond. These letters examine what the world could look like then — and how we can make the best scenario happen.  Dear 22nd Century, Hopefully there is some kind of statute of limitations on inappropriate thoughts that flitted through the heads of those of us ...

Smartphones, tablets and laptops are old news -- it's time for new tech products to take center stage. Read on to see which ones are most likely to make a splash in 2015. Virtual Reality Sony Corp (ADR) (NYSE: SNE) and Facebook Inc's Oculus VR are already doing their part to advance virtual reality... Read More...

Chris Davies - Apr 26, 2021, 8:38am CDT Google parent Alphabet has been working on “a moonshot” for the electric grid, with a secret project in its X R&D division aiming to figure out how to make power use more stable, and more green, than it is today. The research, revealed at the White House Leaders Summit on Climate, has been underway for the past three years. The team at X – which began as Google X, and then was spun out into a separate division when Google created Alphabet as its overarching parent – isn’t planning to put up power lines and install solar pan...