• Cnet, Monday, November 14, 2016 9:54 AM

A Google drone might deliver your Chipotle burrito, but it looks like it won't deliver your Starbucks coffee. The Project Wing drone delivery program, now a part of Google parent company Alphabet, has scrapped a Starbucks partnership as part of a cost-cutting move, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The budget cuts also mean a hiring freeze and an attempt to shift employees to other projects, according to the report. The company still believes in the technology. "Project Wing has the potential to remove a big chunk of the friction in how physical things are moved around in the world," the X group said in a statement. "What we're doing now is developing the next phase of our technology, and as always are thinking in a very broad way about all the potential use cases for delivery by unmanned aerial systems. While there's still a lot of work to be done, we believe that opening the skies to faster, more efficient transportation of goods is a moonshot worth pursuing."

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