Items tagged with Google X
Top talent is highly coveted in the tech industry, so it's no surprise that Apple jumped at the chance to bring one of the one of the biggest brains in robotics on board. Her name is Yoky Matsuoka and she's joining Apple to help with the outfit's health and fitness initiative, a growing trend in mobile and wearables. Matsuoka has an impressive resume, one that includes co-founding Google's X lab and serving as head of technology at Nest. She was bound for a vice president role at Twitter last year, but decided to turn down the job offer after being diagnosed what she described on Medium as a life-threatening illness. "Before I started work at Twitter full time, I took some time to get treatment...
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If you grew up watching The Jetsons on television, you might have thought the future would be filled with flying cars. Instead, some 52 years after the original series first aired, the skies are filling up with delivery drones, not flying cars. It's not just Amazon, either -- apparently the Google X team has been working drones of its own for the past two years as part of Project Wing, only we're just now finding out about them. Project Wing is different from Amazon's PrimeAir initiative in that Google's goal isn't necessarily to delivery purchased goods like diapers and iPads. From the way things sound, Google's more interested in fleshing out the program to where it can be used in emergency...
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