Google engineers have been working on a new project that could enable billions of people to connect to the internet using narrow beams of light. Fiber-optic cable can support high speeds, but rolling ...

Indian telco Bharti Airtel and Google's parent Alphabet project are planning to use lasers to bring Internet services to remote parts of India. Taara, a project from Alphabet's X moonshot labs, aims ...

Alphabet has announced a new development for Taara's technology that could lead to low-cost, high-speed internet connectivity, even in far-flung locations. Taara's general manager, Mahesh Krishnaswamy ...

Alphabet, Google's parent company, announced on Monday that it is spinning off wireless communications project Taara into an independent company. Taara transmits data by shooting lasers between ...

Google says it has used the Free Space Optical Communications (FSOC) links developed for Project Loon to beam hundreds of terabytes of data nearly five kilometers, no wires necessary. Share on ...

Liberty Networks has deployed Taara's optical communication technology to enhance high-speed data connection between two Caribbean islands. Taara is a moonshot project for connectivity at X, ...

Everyone knows the woes of slow internet connection speeds, but the Google Taara chip could provide Internet to previously unreachable areas — and at speeds of up to 20Gbps per second. This project ...

Taara, a project at X (formerly known as Google X), provided an innovative solution using invisible light beams transmitted through the air to provide broadband connection between telecom nodes In ...

In a new Project Taara blog post, Alphabet says it transmitted data at 10Gbps from one Taara chip to another, using only light beamed from the chip’s “hundreds” of software-controlled light emitters — ...