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Facebook is ditching its plans to build its own drones

Jun 27, 2018, 02:43 IST

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Facebook is scrapping its plans to build its own drones, it announced on Tuesday.

Facebook's blog post comes after Business Insider revealed earlier on Tuesday that the Aquila project lost its long-time head, Andrew Cox, in May, and that it was briefing partners about a redesign of its drones last year.

Internal emails also revealed that Facebook explored building a drone base at a futuristic spaceport in the New Mexico desert.

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