Taara, Google's quirky underdog project of the day, seeks to fire internet signals using light beams across long distances above ground, an innovation over fiber optics, radio signal, and ...

Taara's technology works by using a "very narrow, invisible light beam to transmit data at speeds as high as 20 gigabits per second, up to distances of 20 kilometers (12.1 miles)." It's like ...

Alphabet is spinning out laser-based Internet company Taara from its “moonshot” incubator, hoping to turbocharge the start-up that provides high-bandwidth services to hard-to-reach areas in ...

These devices could then exchange data directly, providing high-speed, easily-scalable coverage wherever Taara nodes exist. "Using chips deployed in a global mesh network, we see opportunities to ...

Internet from terrestrial lasers, not satellites. Light-based internet project Taara is exiting Alphabet’s “moonshot” incubator X, spinning off into an independent company. Taara’s tech ...

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is spinning off laser-based internet startup Taara from its "moonshot factory" called X, the Financial Times reported. Taara delivers high-speed internet ...

Project Taara, a potential Starlink rival, is spinning off from Google’s parent Alphabet to become its own company. On Monday, Taara officially graduated from Alphabet's “Moonshot factory ...

Alphabet’s X lab this week announced Taara is graduating from the “Moonshot Factory” to become an independent company and has raised a round of funding led by venture capital firm Series X Capital.

Taara, a start-up offering internet access through beams of light, operates in over a dozen countries. Seven of these are in Africa, notably Kenya and Ghana. What started as a research project within ...

Alphabet has officially spun off Taara, a laser-based internet startup, from its experimental incubator, X. This move positions Taara as a direct competitor to Elon Musk’s Starlink, aiming to ...