Project Ara’s Head Engineer Leaves Google to Start Airbus’ New Silicon Valley Office

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Google’s Advanced Technologies and Projects (ATAP) skunkworks, the star of Google I/O last week, is a tough place to work: after two years, projects are expected to either become real businesses or die. In the case of the Project Ara modular smartphone, the deadline has been extended — but rather than keeping the team around, ATAP is bringing in some fresh blood. And that means that Paul Eremenko, Ara’s technical lead, was bound to leave the group one way or another.

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