Regina Dugan

The Extreme Tech Challenge Global Finals 2021 starts tomorrow

Get ready for a startup throwdown of global proportions (literally). We’re the proud hosts of the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) Global Finals, and the pitch competition action starts tomorrow, July 2

Facebook’s Building 8 head, Regina Dugan, is leaving the company

Facebook's Regina Dugan, who led the company's secretive Building 8 hardware lab, is leaving the company after just 18 months in the role. Dugan detailed in a Facebook post that she would be leaving t

ATAP goes AWOL at Google I/O

For the last few years, Google's skunkworks ATAP unit always held its own keynote at I/O, Google's flagship developer conference. Often, this was where Google would show off its most experimental and

Facebook plans ethics board to monitor its brain-computer interface work

Facebook will assemble an independent Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) panel to oversee its development of a direct brain-to-computer typing interface it previewed today at its F8 confere

Facebook is building brain-computer interfaces for typing and skin-hearing

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. They also have people

Regina Dugan exits Google to lead Facebook’s Building 8, a new R&D lab

Talent wars may never cease in Silicon Valley. Facebook today announced it has hired former Google vice president of advanced technology and projects, Regina Dugan, to head up a new group dubbed Build

Googler, And Former DARPA Director, Regina Dugan Joins Zynga’s Board Of Directors

Zynga is announcing a new addition to its board of directors — <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_E._Dugan">Regina E. Dugan</a>, vice president of engineering and head of t