Google built a fake city to test its self-driving cars.

Inside the city, the self-driving vehicles can log thousands of miles in a controlled setting, where cars driven by people are staged to quickly cut off a self-driving car in order to test the robot’s rate of deceleration.

Google's Waymo patents 'soft' self-driving cars

Google's Waymo has patented a technology that will make its self-driving cars soft on the outside if it comes across a situation where there is a possibility of an accident with a human.

Google's latest exploration - a salt-based solution that stores energy

Google parent company, Alphabet, aspires to revolutionize the way we store and utilize renewable energy.

Google's Project Sunroof expands to 7 million homes in Germany

Google’s Project Sunroof is launching in Germany today, extending the company’s solar estimator to 7 million homes.

How Google Is Revealing Unmapped Areas of the World in Virtual Reality

VR producer Chris Milk hopes that the technology’s potential will extend far beyond, - for instance by using VR to transport viewers into the lives of others to create empathy and understanding.

Quantum Computers Ready to Leap Out of the Lab in 2017

Quantum computing has long seemed like one of those technologies that are 20 years away, and always will be. But 2017 could be the year that the field sheds its research-only image.

Two Google Chat Bots Are Talking About What They're Talking About

Google Home is a voice-activated speaker powered by the artificial intelligence agent, Google Assistant. If you own a Home, you can ask it questions and tell it to do things, like play music or look up recipes.

Experts split on how soon quantum computing is coming

Whether quantum computing is 10 years away - or is already here - it promises to make current encryption methods obsolete, so enterprises need to start laying the groundwork for new encryption methods.

Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and YouTube will share terror content info

Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and YouTube have agreed to share with one another identifying digital information of violent terror content that they find on their platforms.

Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy by next year

Google announced this week that it is on target to achieve 100-percent renewable energy in 2017.

Google's DeepMind gives an AI human-like memory to solve tough problems

DeepMind has outlined a process where it trained a neural network to have human-like memory, giving it not only the ability to store data, but also to recall that information and use it to solve novel problems.

Google makes progress on self-driving cars, hits 2 million mile mark

Google's self-driving vehicles are mastering complex situations on public roads as the technology company strives to win the high-profile race to achieve full vehicle automation.

Google DeepMind's WaveNet gets closer to replicating human speech

AI speech sounds very robotic. this vastly being improved by WaveNet, Deepmind’s new AI that can mimic human speech. It is not perfect, but is 50% better than current technologies. In fact, the thing is so smart it can create its own music.

The 'Google Brain' is a real thing but very few people have seen it

Google Brain is actually a real thing that exists inside Google's massive collection of data centers.

Google's DeepMind AI to use 1 million NHS eye scans to spot diseases earlier

The five-year research project will draw on one million anonymous eye scans which are held on Moorfields’ patient database, with the aim to speed up the complex and time-consuming process of analysing eye scans.