Friday, July 31, 2015

A Facebook Project to Beam Data From Drones Is a Step Closer to Flight - The New York Times

Tangentially, see Google Loon To Cover Entire Country Of Sri Lanka With Internet (TechCrunch)

"Facebook has moved several steps closer to fulfilling its grand ambition of building an Internet network in the sky, announcing on Thursday that it has built its first unmanned drone and found a way to vastly increase the capacity of the lasers that will eventually beam data between the drone network and the ground."
A Facebook Project to Beam Data From Drones Is a Step Closer to Flight - The New York Times

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