Google X Hires Pied Piper Founder Richard Hendricks

Major moves in the tech world today as Google's experimental X division has announced that it has hired Richard Hendricks, best known for his work as founder and CEO of compression algorithm start-up Pied Piper. Hendricks has been brought on by Google X head Astro Teller to aid in the compression of the secretive lab's many Moonshots--a Googleism for projects with an outside chance of success, like Google Glass or the think-tank's inaugural mission of getting Google to space. Hendricks is optimi...