Less than four months after being launched by Imperial College, GraphicsFuzz has been acquired by Google and will be integrated into the Android Graphics Team.

GraphicsFuzz, a UK-based graphics driver testing technology spun out of Imperial College London, was acquired by Google, the internet subsidiary of diversified conglomerate Alphabet, yesterday.

Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

Founded in December 2017 before being officially launched in April 2018, GraphicsFuzz has developed technology to automatically and quickly identify and fix security bugs in graphics drivers.

The graphics driver is the software that controls the graphics card. Together, they are primarily responsible for the…

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