From A to Z’s all there in the alphabet soup.
“Well, that was an interesting end to Monday,” tweeted Chris Andrikanich whose usernameAlphabet reads. After the blog post by Google CEO Larry Page on corporate restructuring was the hitherto unknown flooded with congratulations – after his name was now very valuable. However, neither the user name nor the domain alphabet.com belonging BMW seems to have been important Google before its restructuring.
anyway For the investors, the “Raider is-now-Twix” principle: Everything is transformed one to one, nothing changes. Yet will Alphabet CEO Larry Page, the A, the beginning of the alphabet, now stand for the beginning “of a collection of business.”
As of an alphabet soup we peck at a few companies out, taken together, paint a fairly accurate picture of how Google operations in the future and will be present in almost all walks of life.
B as Boston Dynamics
Anyone who sees running the robot dog “Big Dog” or four-legged, driven by internal combustion engine Laufroboter the American company Boston Dynamics, it can quickly get to do with the fear: Spot running stairs High, Big Dog can balance on ice, they can come and push, and they still do not fall. Who knows how difficult robot to do with obstacles or with an engagement in their normal movement who understands how far advanced the technology of Boston Dynamics is. For the US military, the company developed this robot. They could be used as, to traverse dangerous terrain and to transport military equipment – or, more dystopian, be with a weapon to aufmontierten a remote-controlled fighting machine
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However, since the end of 2014 one can still imagine a different future for robots: Namely, since Google Boston Dynamics has purchased for the development of mobile machinery that was a big step for Google. Neuland it was for the company still does not: previously, Google had already adopted seven robotics company
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© AFP An autonomous drive that is funny: Eric Schmidt, Vostandschef of Alphabet Inc., the Google car
An autonomous drive that is funny: Eric Schmidt, Vostandschef by alphabet Inc., the Google car
C as Calico
With the establishment of the biotechnology company Calico Google is already in 2013 entered the business around the aging process and age-related diseases. Calico stands for “California Life Company”, in the research around San Francisco Google plans to invest several hundred million dollars. Larry Page has set itself the goal to prolong people’s lives by its researchers delaying aging.
This fits his philosophy to pursue with its so-called “Moon Shots” also ambitious projects whose success is far from certain. Page likes companies that “have a healthy disregard for the impossible” as he once said.
D as Deep Mind
The company was founded in 2014 and bought by Google in 2011 is engaged in artificial intelligence. Among other things, the company has developed an algorithm that allows computer video games as well to play like humans. The mission statement of the company after, Deep Mind will “unravel the intelligence”, ie understand what makes human brains and how to match the speed of computers with the creativity of people.
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I like Google Ideas
With products such as the “Project Shield” or the “Enter Password” will equip Google’s think tank against online attacks. The shield is a wall against enemy hackers around with DDoS attacks, so mass requests, trying to paralyze websites. The password-alarm to warn when hackers try stealing passwords. Such products there are hundreds of times, Google has this but picked out as a target group human rights activists and journalists in countries that are at greater risk from repressive regimes or from hacker attacks. Other software companies that protect against such DDoS attacks, aimed more at business than customers.
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