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SHORTLY AFTER UNVEILING its drone delivery project in Australia, Google is moving onto the next step: using them to deliver internet access to everyone.
The company has asked the US’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to test drones that would eventually be used to deliver internet access to remote areas, according to Ars Technica.
The company wants permission to test its drones for 180 days from 6 October in New Mexico. It will be transmitting frequencies from 910MHz to 927MHz and from 2.4GHz to 2.414GHz, but the documents didn’t say what exactly the company will be transmitting.
The 900MHz spectrum is used by wireless internet services, smart meters, toll readers, baby monitors and other devices, but Google noted that it will work with the relevant services to “avoid harmful interferences to any federal operations.”
Back in April, Google bought Titan Aerospace, a company that specialises in developing solar powered unmanned aircraft, and had plans to integrate it into Project Loon, its plan to use balloons to deliver internet connectivity to remote parts of the world.
The company is also said to be planning on using low-orbit satellites to provide a similar service, a rumour strengthened by it acquiring Skybox Imaging for €386 million back in June.
Last month, Google revealed Project Wing, an initiative that uses self-flying vehicles to deliver items and goods to people in rural areas.
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People who use these are muppets. Everyone knows the risks to these.
One day pale and freckly will be in.
And not to mention how fake and unnatural it can look. Umpa lumpas walking around in December trying to fool people. #iwokeuplikethis
Don’t even get me started on fake tan Super. Christ it’s awful! Why would you have a shower/bath to rub what looks like shite all over your body and then think looks/smells good?! Then the next morning, it’s missing off your hands and feet and looks like you shat the bed! Would rather spend the money on a good decent body lotion to look good than spread that crap all over me.
Damn I didn’t know sh!te got by the journo police. My sh!te has an exclamation mark, same as my tan
Nothing beats a pale skinned, dark haired, blue eyed, Irish cailin.
Not everything is an “addiction”, some people are just stupid and have no willpower or don’t care.
Good God, you’ve been tangoed love.
Girl goes to work Friday and looks normal. Same girl comes into work Monday and looks like she sat in a bath of Ronseal and thinks everyone thinks she got a tan in the Irish Monsoon Summer over the weekend. The Ronseal look is not a good look. Looks crap. Fake tan, fake girl, fake personality.
Cure for tanning addiction=fake tan!
Thought it was going to be an article addressing my Tanora dependency.
Great piece here from the Irish Cancer Society about the dangers of sunbed use. Anyone who still uses them after reading this need a serious wake-up call. http://www.cancer.ie/reduce-your-risk/sunsmart/sunbeds#sthash.LFs1qokg.dpbs
I agree with the majority of comments on here. Covering yourself with fake tan is like smearing your own excrement all over yourself. Same smell and same colour. People who do this are crazy.
When I was a kid, there was a woman around the corner who opened a tanning salon. She also rented out sunbeds for home use. She had one herself, and every night you’d see the purple glow of the UV lights emanating from her room.
She died from skin cancer.
Or the shock when she got her ESB bill.
Jesus there’s nothing worse looking imo
bla bla “her body her choice” bla bla bla
Nutters!
Coco butter nutters
How they are not browned off i will never know
cracking pic mid article, thank you journal!
I thought it said ‘Somalia’ tanning salon …..
Yer wan looks like she jumped in a bath of curry sauce
Why does reading this article give me the urge to rent the latest Hollywood blockbuster on DVD…? (Never understood the connection and why tanning booths and DVD rental was good business acumen? Ah well. Better left a mystery.
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