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Google acquires Boston Dynamics and seven other robotics companies: Next stop, Judgment Day
2013-12-16 16:49:29| Extremetech
Google, the search engine and advertising company, has acquired Boston Dynamics -- the robotics and engineering company famous for the creation of some of the world's most advanced robots. It is clear that Google is seriously -- and rather suddenly -- interested in robots. What isn't clear, though, is why. Is Google planning some kind of synergistic and masterful play to integrate its AI and machine learning software algorithms with humanoid helper robots? Is this the start of a story that ultimately leads to the technological singularity and Judgment Day?
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Google X acquires kite-power start-up Makani
2013-05-23 11:25:23| CNET News.com
The research unit's "focus on real atoms, not bits" is expanding to include the start-up's work on tethered flying wings that are designed to generate 600 kilowatts of power. [Read more]
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Google acquires news stream Wavii
2013-04-28 10:27:52| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Google acquires Wavii, a service that offer customised news streams to users, for roughly $30m (18m) in cash.
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Google acquires Android mobile-data firm Behavio
2013-04-16 19:06:16| CNET News.com
Behavio's Funf framework gathers data about people and their location by way of their phone and can use it to predict future actions -- places they're most likely to visit next, for example. [Read more]
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Google acquires startup focused on neural networks
2013-03-13 12:29:10| InfoWorld: Top News
Google has acquired a startup from the computer science department of the University of Toronto to get key researchers in the area of deep neural networks. The Internet company acquired DNNresearch, which was set up last year by Professor Geoffrey Hinton and two of his graduate students, Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever, the University of Toronto said on Tuesday.
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