Uber U

“There was something missing from the lab today, though. In February, a group of some 40 employees — including several longtime senior lab members — resigned. They had been lured away, en masse, by a new employer.” NYT Mag’s Clive Thomson finds out what happened when Uber went looking for a team of roboticists — which led him to a bigger question: Can high-tech academia survive today’s Silicon Valley talent binge?