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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at a hackathon event in 2016. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is closing down The Garage, a set of popular maker spaces where employees worked on experimental projects and collaborated on surprising new apps and hardware during the company's annual hackathon events. "We're w…

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