In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab

Re:In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab by honkhonkpants on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @05:03PM (#12221497)

Less breathless reporting: Facebook builds 20000-square-foot machine shop and bench lab, invites press to grand opening.

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Re:In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab by roymurdock on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @05:14PM (#12221581)

Dubs it "Area 404". Yikes.

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Re:In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab by honkhonkpants on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @05:21PM (#12221626)

Had been known as "Building 8" quite recently.

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Re:In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab by wookiegorilla on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @05:39PM (#12221755)

Building 8 != Area 404. One is a team and the other is a place.

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Re:In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab by arcticfox on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @05:49PM (#12221828)

Which is the team and which is the place? Those are both place names to me.

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Re:In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab by dshields1 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @06:09PM (#12221951)

Building 8 is the group.

> (Zuck) announced the formation of a mysterious research-and-development group known as "Building 8."

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Re:In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab by kriro on Thursday August 04, 2016 @02:40AM (#12223830)

My thoughts as well. I'd guess Building 8 since that is probably based on Hateful 8? So basically the 8 that build stuff (building used as a verb).

Pure speculation though.

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