A Google lab so secret that even some of the company's own employees don't know of its existence? That's Google X -- or it was, before
The New York Times ran a profile on the lab's super secret goings-on at an undisclosed location somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area. Naturally, the paper doesn't have a ton of information about the lab, which some claim is "run like the CIA," though it paints a picture populated by robots who are are learning menial work tasks and how to take photos for
Google Maps. There are around 100 concepts in all from the lab that helped give rise to those
driverless cars, including social networking dinner plates and internet-connected refrigerators. No word on the lab's production of an adamantium-laced
super soldier for the Canadian government, but we're sure it's around there somewhere.
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