- Wired, Wednesday, September 24, 2014 11:25 AM
While determined to offer Web connectivity far and wide with the help of solar-powered drones and high-altitude balloons, Facebook and Google are not blind to the challenges ahead. “We’re
going to have to push the edge of solar technology, battery technology, composite technology,” Yael Maguire, the engineering director of Facebook’s new Connectivity Lab, said this week, as
reported by Wired. Facebook’s “goal is to build and launch a fleet of solar-powered drones that can connect the billions of people currently living off the grid to the Internet.”
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