Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

Alphabet's life sciences business Verily is restructuring and raising money as a new corporate entity. Verily announced that with its $300 million investment round, it will change from an LLC to a ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X “I’ve always been fascinated with things that cannot be explained,” Spielberg revealed in a 2026 ...

How would we recognize a message from an alien civilization if we cannot understand its language? By combining information theory, Zipf’s Law, and studies of human and dolphin communication, ...

Google parent Alphabet's shares closed largely flat on Thursday after the company beat Wall Street's expectations on earnings and revenue. The company said it would increase spending on artificial ...

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

Less than a year ago, investors were discounting Alphabet's earnings due to concerns about its long-term growth path. Now, Alphabet commands a premium valuation thanks to the rapid improvements it has ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 'signals of interest' with the world's largest radio telescope. When you purchase through links on ...

Google parent Alphabet said it will acquire Intersect, a data center company, for $4.75 billion in cash and the assumption of debt. Alphabet said the acquisition will help bring more data center and ...

Nvidia controls around 90% of the AI accelerator market, but that dominance may have peaked. Alphabet's TPU chips offer significant cost advantages for inference workloads, which are growing faster ...