Spencer Burns is standing in front of a huge five-axis milling machine, inside of which is a custom-designed tool behind glass, fiercely polishing metal at 11,000 RPM. Bits of shrapnel are flying fast ...

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Recently, Facebook posted a blog about the opening of “Area 404”, a 22,000 square foot fully equipped hardware lab in its Menlo Park office. While Facebook generates most of its revenues from ...

Facebook wasn’t content with just being a software company, so it built a hardware lab that’s half as big as a football field. “Over the next 10 years, we’re building everything from Oculus headsets ...

It's tough for a software company to make hardware. That explains why Facebook, which makes money shuffling bits, has just opened a 22,000-square-foot hardware lab amidst the hordes of programmers at ...

Area 404 is a 22,000-square-foot lab with a scanning electron microscope, 60,000-PSI of waterjet cutting power, and more giant machines. If you’re a heavy user of Facebook, Messenger, or Instagram, ...

This is where Facebook will prototype its solar drones, Internet-beaming lasers, VR headsets, and next-gen servers. The problem with moving faster than most companies is that Facebook was plagued by ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- When you think about hardware, Facebook is likely not the first company that comes to mind. But the social network is now investing more in hardware development than ever before.

Held at Moscone Center in San Francisco earlier this month, Mobile World Congress Americas was a pretty uninspiring show, but a few interesting startups stood out among the rows and rows of mobile ...