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The sky is going to become a busier place if Facebook and Google get their way.

The tech firms are investing in rival efforts to beam the internet down to the ground from flying objects in the stratosphere - twice as high as aeroplanes normally fly.

Facebook aims to build a network of laser-beaming drones that will tightly circle known black-spots.

Google also has a drone project about which it's tight-lipped.

But the company is more open about an attempt to send "strings" of giant balloons circumnavigating the globe to provide persistent data links to the parts of the planet they pass.

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