article_snippet: Yael Maguire, engineering director of Facebook’s Connectivity Lab, has previously told the Social Good Summit that the planes will be ‘roughly the size’ of a Boeing 747, but much lighter than the popular aeroplane, which weighs around 600,000lbs (272,155kg) without passengers or fuel.
article_snippet: Facebook has revealed more details about Facebook plans to provide web access to the world.
article_snippet: Facebook has joined forces with Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung and other tech firms to develop the planes in an initiative called Internet.org.
article_snippet: Facebook used to be this single blue app and Facebook
article_snippet: did a lot of different things, now Facebook is a family of apps,' Mr Zuckerberg said. '
article_snippet: Moving from being a single service to a family of apps is the biggest shift Facebook've made in Facebook strategy in helping connect people.'
article_snippet: Ilya Sukhar, from the social media site's Parse department, the area of Facebook made for developers, also announced that the social network will begin supporting software development kits (SDKs) for the 'internet of things'.
article_snippet: This is the idea that all a person's smart devices can be connected together, enabling developers to create apps for Facebook that can control part of the home.