Solar powered drones could play a key role in delivering global 5G wireless communications in the years ahead. The feasibility of this was demonstrated this week when the Solar Impulse 2, a Swiss experimental long range aircraft powered by solar panels, flew from Hawaii to California in 62 hours – a journey of 4,000 miles.

Google said it is testing ways to let people use digital wallets without having to even take smartphones out of their pockets. The Internet colossus is dabbling with ways to make its Android Pay system for smartphones hands-free, with verification by facial recognition, said Google product manager, Pali Bhat. "Imagine if you could rush through a drive-thru without reaching for your wallet, or pick up a hot dog at the ballpark without fumbling to ...

Alphabet’s search division Google is working on developing an AI system that can predict the next sentences of famous dead authors. The AI system will be able to understand natural language based on connotation and personality traits of the speaker, by providing it with a conversational content and the behaviour and language patterns of famous dead authors like William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, among others.

Boston Dynamics unveiled a new humanoid robot. Called Atlas, The Next Generation, the robot has capabilities like walking in snow, picking up objects, opening doors, and even helping itself up off the floor. Boston Dynamics writes that it's designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings.

Google has released a custom map called 'Places of Pride', which allows people to add rainbow pride pins to mark places that mean something special to them. Google has invited members and supporters of the LGBT community at Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Fair Day to share love stories, memories and moments on the world map.

Smart mirrors are everywhere in tech companies' visions of future homes, but they never seem to show up in real homes -- at best, you might find them in fitting rooms. That just wasn't good enough for Google's Max Braun. He recently built his own smart bathroom mirror, and it even matches some of the lofty expectations set by concept videos and sci-fi movies.

Google's self-driving cars aren't perfect, but it's important to emphasise that they're still better than human drivers. The company has revealed that its human drivers had to take control of its robotic vehicles 341 times in the last 14 months, after a total of 424,999 miles (468 682,361km) of driving.

Technology companies are implementing tools to disrupt terrorism, such as the development of an extremist speech "spell-checker", as mentioned by Google's chairman Eric Schmidt. Writing in the New York Times, Mr Schmidt said using technology to automatically filter-out extremist material would "de-escalate tensions on social media" and "remove videos before they spread".

As the price of installing solar has gotten less expensive, more homeowners are turning to it as a possible option for decreasing their energy bill. Google want to make installing solar panels easy and understandable for anyone. Project Sunroof puts Google's expansive data in mapping and computing resources to use, helping calculate the best solar plan for users.

Many of us think of the internet as 'worldwide', however two-thirds of the world’s population does not yet have internet access. Project Loon, from Google, is a network of balloons travelling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill coverage gaps and bring people back online after disasters.

With the ever growing pictures of meals and food on social media, Google has decided to create an app that allows users to count the calories of their food by simply taking a photo. Im2Calories and was announced at Rework Deep Learning Summit in Boston by Google research scientist Kevin Murphy. The app uses deep learning algorithms to count calories in pictures of food.

  One of the big problems Google is working on today is car safety and efficiency. Its goal is to help prevent traffic accidents, free up people’s time and reduce carbon emissions by fundamentally changing car use. So it has developed technology for cars that can drive themselves.