Now think how much easier spelling is on a phone than over a poor quality radio channel ... selected from a standard phonetic, or spelling, alphabet so nobody fumbles for words.

Alphabet is spinning out laser-based Internet company Taara from its “moonshot” incubator, hoping to turbocharge the start-up ...

At its high, Alphabet attained a valuation worth over $2.5 trillion. Now, it sits at $2 trillion. That's a huge amount of value erased from one of the world's top tech companies in just a few weeks.