Boss of Facebook's secretive hardware lab out after 18 months

Facebook's secretive Building 8 hardware lab is losing its boss.

Regina Dugan, who left Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group to lead Building 8, announced that she will be leaving the social network at the beginning of 2018 to "focus on building and leading a new endeavor."

The former DARPA chief didn't say what she would be doing post-Facebook, but said the move was a "difficult decision" for her. At Building 8, which she joined in 2016, she lead some of Facebook's most experimental hardware efforts, including its "brain computer interface project." Read more...