Johns Hopkins, APL to partner with Facebook's R&D...

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Johns Hopkins and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory are part of a group of universities to partner with Facebook to speed up the social networking giant’s secretive hardware development team’s research. The deal allows for a rapid increase in the speed at which the 17 universities selected can collaborate with Facebook’s Building 8, a hardware development arm that’s been known to work on under-the-radar, advanced projects including virtual reality, artificial intelligence and connectivity…