You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. For years, images of Loon's stratospheric balloons could be spotted throughout Google's campuses. Employees pitching to ...

Alphabet is to shut down Internet balloon company Project Loon. The company announced the news on Friday morning after nine ...

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After nine years as the high-flyer of the Google X lab, Alphabet has brought the Loon project down to earth. Loon's journey "is coming to an end," its chief executive Alastair Westgarth wrote this ...

In 2015, The People’s Daily celebrated the Chinese team’s accomplishment in sending an airship that stayed aloft at 65,000 feet, a feat that required advanced materials in the balloon’s skin. In 2019, ...

Google parent Alphabet has announced that it is letting the air out of its internet-beaming balloon project — the latest of the tech giant’s “moonshot” programs to get scrapped. Loon, which used ...

Google's parent company is winding down a project that used highflying balloons to provide internet access in hard-to-reach regions of the world, as it retreats from some of the moonshot projects ...

Alphabet's Loon has officially begun operating its commercial internet service in Kenya . This is the first large-scale commercial offering that makes use of Loon's high-altitude balloons, which ...

While Facebook has its New Product Experimentation lab, Google has Google X where it plays around and presents moonshot projects that may (or may not) soar. Think self-driving division Waymo, ...

Google’s parent company Alphabet is shutting down a high-profile “moonshot” project called Loon, a design to use helium balloons to deliver cellular connectivity from Earth’s stratosphere, after ...

Mobile data might seem near-ubiquitous, but the world still has major dead zones and huge expanses with poor coverage. Anyone that has fervently and consistently checked the availability of Verizon's ...