Google parent Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) 'moonshot factory' has launched a tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to identify wildfires, flooding and other natural disaster more quickly. The moonshot department, known as X, but not related to social media network formerly known as Twitter, unveiled what it called Project Bellwether on Wednesday.
Read MoreGoogle has terminated the employment of 28 employees following a prolonged sit-in protest at the company's Sunnyvale and New York offices. The protests were in response to Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract inked by Google and Amazon with the Israeli government and its military three years ago.
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