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DoorDash is testing drone delivery in the U.S. after expanding its partnership with Alphabet’s autonomous drone delivery service Wing. Customers in Christiansburg, Virginia (a town of roughly 23,000 residents), can now order select Wendy’s menu items for drone delivery. Users with an eligible address who are placing an order from the Wendy’s on N. Franklin Street will see the option for drone delivery on the checkout page. The order is typically delivered in 30 minutes or less by Wing drone, DoorDash said. It wasn’t clear…

Almost a year ago, Alphabet’s growth stage venture arm, CapitalG, named partner Laela Sturdy as its new head, just as the unit’s founder, David Lawee, stepped down. Few were surprised Sturdy was promoted to the post. She joined Google in 2007 in a marketing role, was pulled into a number of departments in the following years, and when CapitalG was launched in 2013, she was recruited by Lawlee, who told CNBC in 2021, “I kind of made it a point to know who all the stars were inside of Google, and Laela’s name came up a…

Alphabet may soon face a massive challenge from OpenAI, in Google's core business. OpenAI, in partnership with Microsoft is planning to launch an AI bot that would act as an alternative to Google Search OpenAI, the studio…

NVIDIA is doing very well for itself. The chip maker has overtaken Alphabet, Google's parent company, to become the third most valuable company in the United States, Reuters reports. The news comes almost immediately after NVIDIA pushed past Amazon in the rankings, with the company now valued at $1.83 trillion. Worldwide, it sits in fourth, behind American companies Microsoft ($3.04 trillion) and Apple ($2.84 trillion) and the Saudi Arabian state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco ($2.07 trillion).AI's boom over the last year…

Pennies were pinched in Mountain View last year. For much of its existence as a public company, Google had made a headline-grabbing acquisition at least once a year as it used the profits from its surging ads business to bet on new frontiers. Billions of dollars went to scooping up Motorola, Nest, HTC, and Fitbit to build up it hardware business. Apigee, Looker, and Mandiant rounded out Google’s cloud computing unit. But Alphabet’s latest annual report reveals that the splurging stopped in 2023.Alphabet omitted a section…

The Federal Trade Commission is launching an inquiry into massive investments made by Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet into generative AI startups OpenAI and Anthropic, the agency announced on Thursday. The FTC said that it had issued “compulsory orders” to the companies and would scrutinize their relationships with AI startups to understand their impact on competition.“History shows that new technologies can create new markets and healthy competition,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement. “As companies race to develop…

Alphabet Inc.’s lab for pioneering technology is laying off dozens of employees as it turns to outside investors to help fund its ventures.The division, known as X, has in recent months ramped up discussions on funding with venture capitalists and other investors, according to people with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be named as it is private. The lab is adopting a new structure that’ll enable its projects to more easily spin out of X as independent startups with support from Alphabet and outside backers,…

Waymo, Alphabet Inc's autonomous driving unit, said on Friday it had applied to the California Public Utilities Commission to expand its driverless service in Los Angeles.A license would allow Waymo, which operates extensively in San Francisco, to fully operate its fleet in Los Angeles, California's largest city, where it is now testing rides, allowing new rides only by invitation.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For…

Alphabet-owned Wing has been trying to make drone delivery an actual thing, but the relatively minuscule payload capacity of modern delivery aircraft has been a serious obstacle. The company that’s a step in the right direction. The new model can handle payloads of up to five pounds, which is twice as much as Wing’s previous flagship drone.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU1bNw4Z6toIt can also travel up to 65 MPH, which is pretty darned fast. The onboard battery allows for a 12 mile round trip, which is so that…

Ah, the tyre sidewall, that mysterious canvas of numbers and letters! We’ve all seen them, those cryptic markings that leave us scratching our heads. But fear not! Today, we’re embarking on a whimsical journey to uncover the secret language of tyres. Get ready to demystify those modern-day hieroglyphics on the sidewall of a tyre and decode their meanings. And hey, don’t worry, I promise to keep it casual, easy to read, and sprinkle in a few jokes along the way! The Alphabet BrigadeLet’s kick…