This year’s best April fool’s tech item: Drone-delivered newspapers

April 18, 2013
This is my nomination for this year's best April fool's item:

This is my nomination for this year’s best April fool’s item: A French newspaper claimed it would start delivery service via small drone planes. A newspaper in Colorado apparently noticed the item and ran its own version of the prank. NBCnews.com also apparently took the French paper’s item seriously enough to inquire about it.

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