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March 29, 2019 03:30 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/lQ9qkRe__Co/facebook-secretly-explored-building-bird-size-drones-to-ferry-data-to-people-with-bad-inte
Facebook Secretly Explored Building Bird-Size Drones To Ferry Data To People With Bad Internet Connections
Facebook recently explored building bird-size drones loaded with data to help improve people's internet connections. From a report: The Menlo Park, California-headquartered technology giant worked on a far-out project, called Catalina, in recent years that aimed to build tiny fixed-wing aircraft capable of ferrying media to communities to augment slow internet connections like 2G, Business Insider has learned. The efforts illustrate how Facebook has been exploring out-of-the-box concepts in its attempts to connect people around the world to the internet for the first time and grow Facebook's user base. And it shows that even amid Facebook's public retreat in June from building 747-size "Aquila" drones to provide internet connectivity to emerging markets, the company was also considering other, even less conventional aerial methods of providing connectivity solutions. Development of Catalina began in late 2017 or earlier, a source said, and work on it continued past June.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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