Dr. Astro Teller currently oversees X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory for building breakthrough technologies and businesses designed to help tackle huge problems in the world. Before joining Google / ...

CEO of Google X Labs and Stanford alum Eric “Astro” Teller ’93 encouraged students to search for science fiction-sounding solutions to world problems and craft their “moonshot story” during a Q&A ...

Self-driving cars are now a regular sight in San Francisco, and Astro Teller, head of X (Google’s innovation lab), says that’s just the beginning. As “Captain of Moonshots,” he’s focused on bold ...

Academic Convocation keynote speaker Astro Teller compared graduation to completing the “tutorial level” of life—where graduates have learned how to work the controls and are now heading into the game ...

Astro Teller, captain of Moonshots for Alphabet's X, talks with WSJ’s Rebecca Blumenstein at the WSJDLive conference in Laguna Beach, Calif. Australia Just Banned Teens From Social Media. Here’s What ...

Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt covered Google and security for CNET News, with occasional forays into tech and pop culture. Formerly a CNET Reviews senior editor for software, he has written about ...

Astro Teller, the head of Alphabet's X research lab, shares his meaning of life and how he discovered it, the motivating factors humans use to find meaning and the perceived threats AI poses to our ...

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Google X Labs director Astro Teller loves failure. Failures, he says, are the fun part. And without harnessing them, there’d be a lot fewer successes over five-year tenure at Google. Teller spoke ...

Astro Teller, the head of X, reflects on 10 years of work on projects such as internet-beaming balloons and sterilizing mosquitoes—and some even crazier ideas that never quite saw the light of day.