The initiatives have since become more serious and are being led by Google's "access" unit, the Google X lab led by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and Google.org, the company's nonprofit arm, these people said.

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Finally, Google could continue creating jobs as it research, design, and manufacture the systems close to its current operations in Mountain View and the secret Google X Lab believed to be in the Bay Area, where the autonomous cars were developed.

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Don't tell Google, but its latest X lab project is something performed by the great internet public every day.

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The lab has given rise to Google's self-driving car initiative and did the early work on its augmented spectacles.

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The question is being asked: if RSA, CitiBank, Oak Ridge National Lab, Lockheed Martin, Google and the IMF can be compromised and critical data stolen is any organization secure?

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The Data Sensing Lab is the next step in Google's quest to master environmental data collection after absorbing the team behind Behavio last month.

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There, he ran the mobile apps lab before taking the role of director of Google Maps for mobile, where he oversees the Android and iOS versions of the iconic mapping app.

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While hardware manufacturers like Sony and Vizio have been hard at work making new Google TV devices, the folks in Mountain View have been in the lab cooking up new software features for the platform.

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Google's Cloud Platform Developer Relations team is spearheading a project called the Data Sensing Lab, which utilizes a network of Arduino sensors to collect ambient data and translate it into easily understood visualizations.

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