Google’s NASA deal may benefit everyone but itself
Source: REUTERS/Mark Blinch
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The company’s $1.2 bln, 60-year lease of a space agency airfield near its HQ is another long-term bet on nascent technologies like robotics, artificial intelligence and space exploration. Wall Street won’t give Google any short-term credit, but the world needs the research.
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