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Facebook is making a solar-powered drone to deliver the internet with lasers

Antonio Villas-BoasJul 31, 2015, 03:24 IST

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Facebook is designing, developing, and building a giant, solar-powered, drone called Aquila that will beam internet data down to remote places.

It might be hard to believe, but there are still 4 billion people around the world who don't have access to internet, according to Facebook.

This is how Aquila is being built and how it will bring internet to the remotest of regions.