Facebook’s secretive hardware team signs rapid collaboration deal with 17 universities

 Facebook’s shadowy Building 8 research team needs help from academia to invent futuristic hardware. But today’s pace of innovation doesn’t allow for the standard 9-12 month turnaround time it takes universities to strike one-off research partnerships with private companies. Enter SARA, aka Facebook’s “Sponsored Academic Research Agreement”. It’s a… Read More

source https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/21/facebook-sara/?ncid=rss