The New York Times ran an interesting piece last Sunday about a
secretive location in the Bay Area. Turns out to be the mysterious X Lab
run by Google. It’s so secret, that irony of ironies, the very story
that introduced it to the public imagination merely hinted at what goes
on inside. It’s a cool read though. According to the collaborative duo
Clair Cain Miller and Nick Bilton, the Google X Lab does stuff so far
out it’s almost hard to believe. Plus: Robots!

So maybe the robot part will further convince the paranoiacs out there that Google is a real life Sky Net. Relax…it’s just a harmless search engine. (Not.)
Here’s a teaser from the two page scoop:
A Google spokeswoman, Jill Hazelbaker, declined to comment on the lab, but said that investing in speculative projects
was an important part of Google’s DNA. "While the possibilities are
inc
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