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Alphabet joins drone tests as US considers new rules
AFP, Published on 03/08/2016
» WASHINGTON - Google parent Alphabet is joining tests for drone deliveries, US officials announced Tuesday, as the White House unveiled accelerated rulemaking for commercial unmanned aircraft operations.
Google CEO meets with EU anti-trust chief
AFP, Published on 26/02/2016
» BRUSSELS - Google chief executive Sundar Pichai met with the European Union's top anti-trust official Margrethe Vestager on Thursday in an effort to narrow differences ahead of a landmark competition decision on the company.
World first 'drone-port' planned in Rwanda
AFP, Published on 30/09/2015
» KIGALI - It sounds like science fiction: unmanned drones carrying emergency medicine zooming above the rolling hills of Rwanda.
Tripling Internet access would do more good than tackling HIV: study
AFP, Published on 12/12/2014
» GENEVA - Dramatically expanding broadband access would boost the global economy and could do more good than investing in HIV prevention or clean drinking water, according to a study published Thursday.
Amazon warns it could take drones testing outside US
AFP, Published on 09/12/2014
» NEW YORK - Amazon, keen to blaze a trail with delivery by drone, is threatening to take much of its research for the plan outside the United States amid frustrations with US regulators.
Startups at SXSW in search of some better mousetraps
AFP, Published on 11/03/2013
» Not long after her husband left her "to live in a van down by the river" in Idaho, as she puts it, Elissa Shevinsky thought it was high time for a better mouse trap.
Google threatens to drop links to French media
AFP, Published on 18/10/2012
» Internet giant Google has warned it would exclude French media sites from its search results if France adopts a law forcing search engines to pay for content, in the latest confrontation with European governments.
NASA wants to measure 'Marsquakes'
AFP, Published on 22/08/2012
» Just 10 days after NASA's Curiosity rover sent back its first color photos of the Martian landscape, the US space agency said Monday it wants in 2016 to take a better look at what's happening beneath the Red Planet's surface.
Amazon to launch its own TV comedies, kid shows
AFP, Published on 03/05/2012
» Amazon unveiled plans Wednesday to launch its own comedy and children's television shows for digital delivery -- and asked customers for ideas.
Icelanders hand in draft of world's first 'web' constitution
AFP, Published on 30/07/2011
» A group of 25 ordinary citizens on Friday presented to Iceland's parliamentary speaker a new constitution draft, which they compiled with the help of hundreds of others who chipped in online.