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Taara has been developing tech to deliver connectivity across communities without underground cables over the last few years. For its latest trick, the Google spinoff is now providing fast internet access across cities using invisible beams of light.

This week, talk of the AI bubble bursting has intensified with Google top executive Demis Hassabis throwing some fuel on the fire while discussing the release of the tech company's Gemini 3 model. He also thinks some players will weather the storm.

For years, Alphabet's Taara has been delivering internet connectivity in remote areas with traffic-light-sized transmitters that communicate over long distances using beams of light. The tech has now been reduced down to a fingernail-sized chip.

A new set of 'powered pants' can boost your leg strength as much as 40%, or make you feel around 30 lb (14 kg) lighter, according to Google X Labs spinout Skip. This 'mountain goat' exoskeleton aims to eliminate physical barriers to outdoor hiking.

Back in 2017, Wing began dropping off burritos to hungry folks in rural Australia, and has since broadened its offerings to include coffee, fried chicken and Vietnamese cuisine. Its latest move in this space might be its biggest one yet.

Having flexed its muscles in predicting kidney injury, toppling Go champions and solving 50-year-old science problems, artificial intelligence company DeepMind is now dipping its toes in weather forecasting.

Project Loon may have been deflated, but its legacy lives on in Project Taara. The team has salvaged the technology to deliver internet connectivity with lasers, demonstrating the viability in a test between two cities separated by the Congo River.

Google's drone-delivery sister company Wing is rapidly expanding its drone delivery services in Logan, a city in Queensland Australia that Wing says is now the drone delivery capital of the world. Only red tape is holding back world domination.

For more than five years, a team has been developing and testing control software under Alphabet's X moonshot factory, aimed at making industrial robots smarter and easier to use. Now the project has branched out into a new company called Intrinsic.

An Alphabet X innovation lab project has been working on a high-speed wireless optical communications network that uses beams of light instead of cables or radio waves, and folks in Kenya will be the first to benefit from the fruits of these labors.

Wing has become the first company to get the official go-ahead from the FAA to begin a commercial drone delivery service in the US. The Alphabet subsidiary received Air Carrier Certification from the FAA, which allows the company to begin delivering goods from businesses to households.

​​Google’s parent company Alphabet is launching its very first air delivery service in the Australian capital of Canberra, following years of trials in the area. Wing, as the Alphabet subsidiary is called, will now begin delivering an assortment of goods to local customers via a mobile app. ​