The pandemic paid off for some! Google’s parent company Alphabet announces first quarter earnings are up 34% on last year Alphabet’s overall sales rose 34% in the first quarter of 2021, to $55.3 billion The figure, announced Tuesday, exceeds analysts’ prediction of $51.7 billion The impressive figure is fueled by surge in advertising revenue and … Read more
The alphabet was invented by illiterate Canaanite miners in ancient Egypt who turned elaborate hieroglyphs into basic letters 4,000 years ago, according to research. In 2006, Egyptologist Orly Goldwasser argued that symbols on artefacts from a temple in the Sinai are prototypes of the letters that we use to read and write today. While it had … Read more
Google’s Alphabet X is working on a project codenamed ‘Wolverine’ that will give users super-human hearing through an in-ear device Alphabet X revealed it has been working on a top secret project since 2018 Called ‘Wolverine,’ it’s developing device that gives users super-human hearing The in-ear device would be packed with sensors and powered by … Read more
Once three-and-a-half times bigger than London, the enormous A68 iceberg has now disintegrated into an ‘alphabet soup’ of individual fragments drifting in the ocean north of Antarctica, a NASA satellite photo revealed. The image, taken by the so-called Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer onboard NASA’s ‘Terra’ Earth-observing satellite on February 12, shows that the giant berg has split into … Read more
‘P is full of Pride’: Blue’s Clues & You promotes inclusive values in alphabet song By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 01:34 GMT, 12 February 2021 | Updated: 01:34 GMT, 12 February 2021 A new clip from Blue’s Clues & You aims toward LGBTQ inclusivity with the message ‘P is full of Pride.’ The YouTube clip, which … Read more
Google parent company Alphabet has shut down its internet balloon business, Loon, which worked to beam internet to remote parts of the world. The ambitious division, which was founded in 2011, aimed to provide a less expensive alternative to cell towers, saving money for developing countries. The tennis court-sized balloons carried solar-powered networking gear high … Read more
The alphabet was invented by illiterate Canaanite miners in ancient Egypt who turned elaborate hieroglyphs into basic letters 4,000 years ago, a study claimed. In 2006, Egyptologist Orly Goldwasser argued that symbols on artefacts from a temple in the Sinai are prototypes of the letters that we use to read and write today. While it had … Read more
A pioneering solution to blindness bypasses damaged eyes and delivers visual information directly to the brain, allowing people to ‘see’. US researchers have used brain-implanted electrodes that allow blind people to artificially see and record a sequence of letters. The electrodes trace shapes on the visual cortex – the region of the back of the … Read more
Grey’s Anatomy star Caterina Scorsone’s daughter Pippa, 3, recites the alphabet on World Down Syndrome Day By Deirdre Durkan-simonds For Dailymail.com Published: 03:22 GMT, 22 March 2020 | Updated: 03:23 GMT, 22 March 2020 To celebrate World Down Syndrome Day, Caterina Scorsone shared an adorable Instagram of her three-year-old Paloma ‘Pippa’ Michaela reciting the alphabet. … Read more