
After announcing Internet.org last year, an initiative to improve Internet access across the globe, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the Connectivity Lab, a new team of scientists that has been working on the ambitious project.
He said that the Connectivity Lab would develop “new platforms for connectivity on the ground, in the air and in orbit,” according to a post on Internet.org on Thursday.
“Connecting the whole world will require inventing new technology,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post announcing the Connectivity Lab.
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