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You may remember Google's mystery barges: two four-story floating structures uncovered simultaneously this time last year by enterprising reporters in San Francisco and Portland, Maine
The barges turned out to be showcases for Google products such as Project Glass. That wasn't as exciting as other potential uses, such as seabound server farms, so we continued to call them mystery barges regardless — perhaps in the hope that the quirky tech giant would come up with another use case.
The Bay Area barge was moved to an out-of-the-way town in February; the Maine barge was sold for scrap in August. The only mystery that remained was why they were taken out of action. All the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission would say about the west coast barge was that it didn't have its paperwork in order. The plot thickened. Read more...
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