A profile of Alphabet’s moonshot X lab, as it carves out a path in which projects spin off as independent startups, after years of debate and experimentation (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

Julia Love / Bloomberg:A profile of Alphabet’s moonshot X lab, as it carves out a path in which projects spin off as independent startups, after years of debate and experimentation  —  Alphabet is ending an era of unrestrained invention, spinning off many projects into independent startups.