On a cloudy day this May, in the dull fluorescent light of a plain white Google conference room, Rafa Camargo, Richard Wooldridge and Blaise Bertrand told CNET their plan to disrupt the phone market.

Currently, Building 8 has four projects underway, and they touch upon cameras and augmented reality, devices that fly, and even brain-scanning technology. According to Business Insider, the technical ...

Facebook quietly killed off Building 8, its secretive skunkworks unit, after the launch of its Portal video-chat device. Its hardware team now lives under a new Portal organization, and its more ...

Facebook doesn’t want its hardware like Oculus or its augmented reality glasses to be at the mercy of Google because they rely on its Android operating system. That’s why Facebook has tasked Mark ...

Facebook's secretive research lab, where the company developed new hardware like its Portal speakers and researched moonshot projects like brain computer interfaces, is no more. Building 8, the ...

Today at F8, Facebook revealed it has a team of 60 engineers working on building a brain-computer interface that will let you type with just your mind without invasive implants. The team plans to use ...

The social network finally unveils what its secretive Building 8 hardware lab has been working on for the past year. Communication might never be the same. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET ...

MENLO PARK — Facebook’s construction activity in Menlo Park has now topped $1 billion — an eye-popping amount that shows how active the social media giant has become in its quest to expand its ...

Wall-sized Portal devices, solid-metal invitations, and strained relations between Building 8 and Facebook Wall-sized Portal devices, solid-metal invitations, and strained relations between Building 8 ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. — The official name of Facebook’s newest Menlo Park building, MPK 21, may evoke computer jargon, but the gleaming new offices at its headquarters are anything but mundane — they ...