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Facebook eyes up solar-powered drones, to blanket the world with internet access

2014-03-05 14:01:23| Extremetech

Facebook, with the thinly veiled veneer of 'bringing internet access to the underconnected,' is looking to acquire Titan Aerospace -- an American maker of high-altitude UAVs (drones). The idea is that these Titan drones would be used to connect the 5 billion or so people who don't yet have reliable internet access -- a philanthropic act on the face of it, but when you consider that Facebook's entire business model is predicated on continued growth, and that almost everyone in the world with an internet connection already has a Facebook account, you can see that this is more about self-preservation than humanitarianism.

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