Facebook Connectivity Lab’s Yael Maguire Talks Drones at 2014 Social Good Summit

Facebook Connectivity Lab engineering director Yael Maguire spoke about the social network’s plans to use drones to help connect developing regions to the Internet in a conversation with Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore at the 2014 Social Good Summit in New York Monday.

ConnectivityLabDrone650Facebook Connectivity Lab engineering director Yael Maguire spoke about the social network’s plans to use drones to help connect developing regions to the Internet in a conversation with Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore at the 2014 Social Good Summit in New York Monday.

Maguire prefers to refer to the unmanned aircraft as planes, rather than drones, and he said of the challenges facing Connectivity Lab:

In order for us to fly these planes — unmanned planes that have to fly for months, or perhaps years at a time — we actually have to fly above the weather, above all airspace.

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