Gary Vestal/Getty Images Facebook explored building bird-size drones to shuttle data for people in areas with slow internet connections. "Catalina" was a secret internal project in Facebook’s Connectivity unit, the company’s efforts to get people around the world online — and on Facebook. The tiny fixed-wing drones would be fitted with solid-state storage devices capable […]
Facebook secretly explored building bird-sized drones to ferry data to people with bad internet connections (FB)
Gary Vestal/Getty Images Facebook explored building bird-sized drones to shuttle data for people in areas with slow internet connections. Catalina was a secret internal project in Facebook’s Connectivity unit, the company’s efforts to get people around the world online — and on Facebook. The tiny fixed-wing drones would be fitted with solid state storage devices […]