In 2015, Dan Kaufman, the director of the information innovation office at the U.S. Department’s fabled DARPA lab, began talking to Google about joining the company in some capacity. Maybe he could ...

Regina Dugan, the head of the Advanced Technologies and Projects (ATAP) group at Google, is blowing my mind. She’s describing Soli, a project to put radar into wearables so sensitive that it can ...

Roland is a technology enthusiast who loves to tinker and geek out about the latest smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and other wearables and gadgets. He aims to provide honest reviews and thoughts ...

Google has been working on a "new interaction language" for years, and today it's sharing a peek at what it's developed so far. The company is showcasing a set of movements it's defined in its new ...

ATAP, a secretive skunk-works project within Google, was once emblematic of the company’s zany, innovative streak. The search giant fed the unit cash to tinker with almost a dozen projects — from ...

Google hires a lot of really smart people. Those smart people do a lot of really crazy things. Just today, Google founder Larry Page announced the founding of Sidewalk Labs, a spin-off from the search ...

ATAP, Google’s advanced research unit, showed a new project at the company’s I/O developer conference today that aims to replace mobile passwords with a new system that looks at your typing patterns ...

I/O is a show about the future of Google, and one of the best places to see what that could look like is from the company’s Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP). It’s the skull-and-bones, ...

Almost three years ago, one of Google's most celebrated executives took the stage at the company's big developer conference and declared that the future was being built in a secretive hardware group ...

What if your computer decided not to blare out a notification jingle because it noticed you weren't sitting at your desk? What if your TV saw you leave the couch to answer the front door and paused ...

For the last few years, Google’s skunkworks ATAP unit always held its own keynote at I/O, Google’s flagship developer conference. Often, this was where Google would show off its most experimental and ...

On January 29, Google announced that it had agreed to sell Motorola, its phone-manufacturing business, to Chinese electronics giant Lenovo. Thus concluded the company’s brief, unprofitable foray into ...