Light-based internet project Taara is exiting Alphabet’s “moonshot” incubator X, spinning off into an independent company.

Google's Taara chip could bring Internet connections to areas previously unreachable by existing technology, with speeds ...

Their rapid spin and intense magnetic fields cause the pulsars to emit narrow beams of light, which flash like the beam from a lighthouse every time they pass across our field of view. Each pulsar ...

Violumas, a US provider of high-power UV LED solutions, has launched an ultra narrow 10° beam device suitable for collimation ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taara uses the part of the spectrum that lies between infrared and visible light. By using a narrow beam of light (invisible to the eye), Taara transmits data as fast as 20Gbps for up to 20km at once.