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Xconomy

In Google’s Moon Race, Teams Face a Reckoning

Competing teams, some powered by billionaires and some by open-sourced code and volunteers, race to land a robot on the surface and claim a massive prize from Google.

Wade Roush Xconomy Apr 2012 20min Permalink

Tech

Inside Google’s Age of Augmented Humanity (Pt. 1-3)

The next frontier of search is… everything. Voice recognition, image recognition, and why Google’s data set is one of the most valuable scientific tools of our age.

Wade Roush Xconomy Jan 2011 30min Permalink