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Facebook ( FB ) CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to connect the world, even if it means building a fleet of aircraft and satellites for delivering Internet services. Its development of an aircraft was part of the 10-year strategy that Zuckerberg presented in the keynote speech at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference Tuesday morning in San Francisco, before some 2,600 attendees. The Facebook plane will be solar powered, with a wingspan longer than a Boeing 737, able to fly at 60,000 feet and beam an Internet connection to remote areas of the world. Facebook is also planning to provide Internet service via satellites and said the first launch will take place next year. In his 30-minute keynote, Zuckerberg emphasized connecting the world, expanding business services on the Facebook Messenger chat platform and boosting Facebook’s Live video interaction with virtual reality. As widely expected , Zuckerberg announced a program for developers to write apps that are powered by artificial intelligence, known as chatbots. The digital assistants will help Messenger users communicate with businesses for services, perhaps to fix a problem or to buy goods. Chatbots are digital characters infused with artificial intelligence that can mimic human conversation. The idea is that businesses on Messenger could use chatbots to interact with customers via automated response systems, aiming to help boost sales. Chatbots can help businesses eliminate the human effort required for communicating with users. Messenger is one of Facebook’s fastest-growing products, with more than 900 million users. Another example he used was with 1-800-Flowers, where a chatbot will help users on the selection and delivery of flowers. “Messenger will be the next big platform for connecting services,” Zuckerberg said. Messenger is already used to request a lift form Uber or Lyft, purchase tickets for concerts and other events, make a payment and more. Zuckerberg also laid out a vision for Facebook’s live video streaming service call Live. He envisioned a time when users will view Live video through a virtual reality platform, such as its Oculus Rift headset that began shipping last month. He also sees a time when VR goggles, which currently protrude across the upper face of a user and are held in place with headbands, swill someday shrink to the size of eyeglasses. “We are at the golden age of video,” Zuckerberg said. Facebook rose 1.5% to 110.60 in afternoon trade on the stock market today , rising back above its 50-day moving average. Scalper1 News
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