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Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm

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Re: Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm

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Outside of the title being misleading, I'm sceptical. It's one thing to have the hardware for research, and completely other to have the expertise for the research.

Google entered the self driving cars research, and we have yet to see them driven around.

This heavily reminds me of Intel and their diversification, up until recently, they were in IoT, makers market and what not. One solid push from AMD and they jumped out of everything way too fast to track.

Google seems the same with the nuclear fusion. They have the advertising money to throw around, but that just it, they are in different segment, and from investing side I'm more inclined to stay away from their stock then buy it.

Re: Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm

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post #3

Outside of the title being misleading, I'm sceptical. It's one thing to have the hardware for research, and completely other to have the expertise for the research. Google entered the self driving cars research, and we have yet to see them driven around. This heavily reminds me of Intel and their diversification, up until recently, they were in IoT, makers market and what not. One solid push from AMD and they jumped…

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Re: Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm

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Google might try to become the conglomerate of all forward-facing things but it is somewhat funny to see how through it all, it's their advertising revenues that form the core of the business.

Which is exactly what they're trying to change - both with "conventional" offerings like Android and Cloud, as well as with what they call "moonshots".

Re: Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm

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Google didn't enter the race. They helped a company with some calculations.

Ok, we changed the title to the first sentence of the article, which basically says that.

thank you! I was very confused... twice...

Re: Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm

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Outside of the title being misleading, I'm sceptical. It's one thing to have the hardware for research, and completely other to have the expertise for the research. Google entered the self driving cars research, and we have yet to see them driven around. This heavily reminds me of Intel and their diversification, up until recently, they were in IoT, makers market and what not. One solid push from AMD and they jumped…

>Google entered the self driving cars research, and we have yet to see them driven around.

You see their working prototypes flying around mountain view all the time. And, they've been transparent with their progress.

People have been working on this since the 80s.

Re: Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm

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Google might try to become the conglomerate of all forward-facing things but it is somewhat funny to see how through it all, it's their advertising revenues that form the core of the business.

> it's their advertising revenues that form the core of the business.

You'd think the advertising staff would get pretty good treatment at Google.

Do they?

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