Google's ATAP hints at 'ambitious' driving app and Project Ara update
 

Google's ATAP hints at 'ambitious' driving app and Project Ara update
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It looks like Google's secretive Advanced Tech**logy and Projects (ATAP) group has some surprises in store for us after all.*

Though initially missing from the schedule for Google's*upcoming I/O developer conference, a recent update shows the team behind Project Ara and Tango will make an appearance at I/O, with an hour-long session slated for Friday morning.

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Titled "Bridging the physical and digital. Imagine the possibilities. ATAP," the session description promises some tantalizing possibilities — including, possibly, a driving app of some kind.

"Ambitious blue sky research coupled with a driving application," the description on I/O's website says. What that means is unclear (we're keeping our fingers crossed for driverless cars though we aren't getting our hopes up)*but the ATAP session has been one of the splashier sessions at previous I/O conferences — so we have high hopes it will be good, whatever it may be. Read more...


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