Facebook secretly explored building bird-size drones to ferry data to people with bad internet connections (FB)

Facebook explored building bird-size drones to shuttle data for people in areas with slow internet connections.
"Catalina" was a secret internal project in Facebook's Connectivity unit, the company's efforts to get people around the world online — and on Facebook.
The tiny fixed-wing drones would be fitted with solid-state storage devices capable of storing data-intensive media like videos and photos.
A Facebook representative said the project was ended a year ago.Facebook recently explore