It’s not exactly straight out of ‘Back to the Future’, but Google founder Larry Page believes the Flyer is going to change the way people get around in the near future,
Alphabet’s CEO is using self-driving tech to create flying cars – a project he has funded since 2010. Say hello the future.
At Apple, he was known as one of the ‘Godfathers of the iPod’. Now, he’s just sold his new business venture, ‘Nest’ to one of the world’s most powerful companies.
Google has always prided itself on trying for the extraordinary. Having succesfully mapped a massive chunk of the world above sea level with driven vehicles, they’ve turned their attention to the oceans. When they aren’t photographing the Great Barrier Reef or translating the web into 64 different languages, they’re trying to make you immortal. Meet project Calico.
Time-tested wisdom says the sky’s the limit. However, a group of billionaires are looking to change that as they launch the first ever venture to mine asteroids, in space. For real. Click through for the details.
And for the first time in years I actually have a reason to want a Motorola. Google today agreed to acquire the handset division of Motorola, Motorola Mobility, for $12.5 billion (around 90 billion ZAR). It’s always nice to have money lying around for these little impulse buys.