Facebook To Start Testing Internet-Beaming Drones In 2015

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 25, 2014 @02:10AM from the don't-worry-that's-next-year dept.

Zothecula writes There was an understandable amount of skepticism when Amazon announced its grand plans for delivery drones last year. But if the last twelve months are any indication, Jeff Bezos and his fellow tech heavyweights are actually kinda serious about the potential of unmanned aerial vehicles. Speaking at the Social Good Summit in New York on Monday, engineering director at Facebook Connectivity Lab, Yael Maguire, has further detailed the company's vision of internet-carrying drones, with plans to begin testing in 2015.

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Re:Faecesbook by i+kan+reed · 2014-09-25 02:22 · Score: 3, Insightful

That's totally true, but Facebook has been making numerous attempts to get out of the "being facebook" game recently. I think that they're executives know as well as we do that individual social networks don't last forever, and they're trying to find long-term high tech areas to operate in too.
It'd take more than my 10 fingers to count all the major tech companies that could be counted as "social networks" that are now mostly defunct.