Written By Pradeep Abheeshta
(Click here to check out the Kickstarter page. You can follow Yannick Read on Twitter.) It's a very well known fact that the process of stealing a 2 wheeler is effortless. No matter how many locks or expensive alarms you install, 2 to 3 burly men, a handful of tools and a van is enough to get even a heavy cruiser motorcycle nicked. Fortunately, Guinness World Record holder Yannick Read might have the solution.
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Written by Vishal Ramanathan What is Google ATAP? With a tag saying "We like epic shit" on their Google+ page; Google's Advanced Technology And Projects (ATAP) group are a small band of pirates. Believers. Makers. They say "The future is what we choose to make. We make what we believe in." People working in Google's ATAP division are the mad scientists of the tech world. Truly thinking out of the box and dreaming up crazy innovations. They're pushing the boundaries of technology with every project they take up. Research teams operate under a “Special Forces” methodology where projects that don’t yield good results are killed within two years. The fast-moving, scrap it if it doesn’t work mindset by was brought to Google ATAP by Dr. Regina Dugan, the ex-DARPA chief who came to Google when it bought Motorola back in 2012. Not only are projects killed after two years, but the project managers in charge of them are let go. It creates a sense of urgency that requires researchers to make the most of their time. Google ATAP is a different research lab entirely from Google X, the secret arm that birthed the self-driving car, Google Loon Internet balloons, and the much-maligned Google Glass. ATAP dedicated to mobile technology, while Google X is for a broader range of long-term projects — real “moonshots” as Google sometimes calls them. |
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