Facebook今天表示，它计划投资数亿美元建造新的硬件，并聘请了一位明星来领导它：雷吉娜•杜根（Regina Dugan），她领导着谷歌的先进技术和项目组。杜根将领导新的小组，被称为8号楼。她以前是国防高级研究计划署（DARPA）的主任，专注于创造突破性的技术。自2012年以来，她一直在谷歌工作，开发各种技术，包括高科技面料、模块化智能**和探戈项目。

Facebook除了表示将开发“新的硬件产品以推进我们连接世界的使命”外，几乎没有提供关于8号楼focus的细节。该公司表示，Dugan将开发由Facebook软件驱动的硬件，以补充Facebook人工智能和虚拟现实部门的工作随着时间的推移，我们将投入数百人和数亿美元，我很高兴看到他们取得的进展，”首席执行官马克·扎克伯格在一份声明中说。

杜根说这是“苦乐参半的一天”

I am on the one hand, tremendously excited. Building 8 is an opportunity to do what I love most... tech infused with a sense of our humanity. Audacious science delivered at scale in products that feel almost magic. A little badass. And beautiful. There is much to build at Facebook... and the mission is human... compelling.

"I am sad to leave the pirates of ATAP," she wrote in a blog post. "Each of our efforts to create new, seemingly impossible products, has been faced with intense challenges along the way. Technical challenges. Organizational challenges. Challenges that might have broken lesser teams. This is the type of work we signed up for when we built ATAP. It is terrifying because it means we have to face our fear of failure, stare it down, more days than most. So be it.

失去杜根对谷歌来说是一个打击，因为她有能力将蓝天思维与实际的产品开发结合起来，因此在谷歌备受推崇。”谷歌在一份声明中说：“我们感谢雷吉娜·杜根（Regina Dugan）作为先进技术和项目组的一员所做的一切领导和贡献，并祝她一切顺利。”。Facebook称，杜根将“很快”开始她的新工作。