Google Tests AI Hardware in Space
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Google is a big technology company.
- A2
Google is sending a new space machine.
- B1
Google is launching a prototype satellite as part of a plan called Project Suncatcher.
- B2
Google is launching a prototype satellite to test its Tensor Processing Units in space as part of Project Suncatcher.
- C1
Google is launching a prototype satellite to test its Tensor Processing Units in space as part of Project Suncatcher.
- C2
To test its Tensor Processing Units in space, Google is launching a prototype satellite as part of a long-term research effort named Project Suncatcher.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- prototype
- an early model or first version of something
- mission
- an important job or task, especially one involving travel to space
- infrastructure
- the basic systems and equipment needed for an activity or organization
- gather
- to collect information or things from different places
- radiation
- energy that comes from a source in the form of invisible waves or rays
- extreme
- very great in degree, or very severe
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Google. Read the original for the full report.