Facebook Reveals Its First Full-Size Internet Drone

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By Carl Engelking
Jul 31, 2015 1:17 AMNov 19, 2019 9:32 PM
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(Credit: Facebook) Facebook took another step toward its goal of connecting all of the world’s citizens to the Internet. On Thursday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that they finished constructing their first full-scale prototype of Aquila, a solar-powered, unmanned aircraft that could someday provide Internet access for people living in places lacking the infrastructure required to surf the Web.

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