05-06-2018 22:18 via theverge.com

Amazon’s Grand Challenge is a secret lab working on cancer research

Amazon has spun up a secret lab within its Seattle headquarters called Grand Challenge that the company has set to work on ideas as bold as curing cancer, according to a new report from CNBC. Grand Challenge is run by former Google employee and Google Glass creator Babak Parviz, and it’s designed much like the original Google X moonshots lab, now a subsidiary of Alphabet and known simply as X.Parviz and his team were part of a larger organization at Google that worked on wearable computin
Read more »