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Google spins out Taara to its own company - using beams of light for internet (x.company)
submitted 19 hours ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Tl;DR: Google X is a subset of Google for researching technology concepts. Taara used to be under Google X but is now spinning out to its own company.

Taara is spinning out of X to become an independent company with a mission to bring high-speed, affordable and abundant connectivity to people everywhere using beams of light.

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[–] HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee 21 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm predicting they build it in just 2 or 3 cities, then quit.

Again.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

Google fiber apparently still exists.

I was very surprised to find that out just now.

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Too good to be true.
Light is light (or just THz range of frequency), there are the reasons why it isn't mainstream.
E.g. fog, heavy rain, snow, hot air "artifacts", etc.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Great, now we got two "X" companies.