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Facebook buys UK maker of solar-powered drones to expand internet

This story is telling us about how Facebook are making solar powered drones in aircraft which will fly over countries in which can not afford the internet and will allow them access to the internet. This will then but them in straight competition with Google, who are planning to create internet access for countries through balloons. Facebook have claimed that they are looking to reach an audience of £1.2 billion. This would then take Facebook to their audience of 4 billion. This operation will cost around £12 million to conduct which has already been put into work."Our team is actively working on building our first aircraft now," Zuckerberg said in a paper published yesterday. My opinion on this story would be due to the increase in new and digital media this would be a idea which would work due to the fact that the internet is now becoming thew most pwoerful tool to humans as it allows them to reach and conduct near enough everything. However if Facebook are providing it country who are unable to afford internet the only setback i would feel there would be, is that how would they claim access to the internet through the technology. As Facebook may reach an audience of 1.2 billion, however would the audience be able to get access to the technology in order to use the internet.