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smt88 on May 28, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google revives controversial cold-fusion experimen...

Alphabet doesn't seem to abandon moonshots as easily as it does consumer SaaS products like Reader.

They still have massive, on-going investments in anti-aging and self-driving vehicles. I don't know of any moonshots they've killed yet.

wezen on May 28, 2019 | [–]

> I don't know of any moonshots they've killed yet.

Google fiber is mostly dead.

Apocryphon on May 28, 2019 | | [–]

That one seems more like a fault of legal battles and rent-seekers.

fooker on May 28, 2019 | [–]

> I don't know of any moonshots they've killed yet.

Project Ara?

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