MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) – Facebook built its fortune on the internet, that non-physical space where people share updates and digital videos with friends. But deep inside its Silicon Valley ...

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re a heavy user of Facebook, Messenger, or Instagram, you’d probably never guess that on the first floor of a building at the social networking giant’s Silicon Valley campus, behind a key-card ...

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.