Alphabet’s balloon-based Internet connectivity initiative, called Project Loon, is coming to the rescue in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. Project Loon, which was originally conceived as a way to ...

Near Space Labs today announced that Tom Chi, founding member of Google X and former head of Google's Project Loon, has made a strategic investment in the company and joined as a board observer. Chi's ...

Remember when balloons were something fun you got at a birthday party or an amusement park. Now they are something a giant tech company wants to use to provide internet access to rural areas around ...

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 ...

Google's ambitious Project Loon, which aims to deliver internet access via floating balloons, is still going strong after its first year. The web giant is investing further resources into the ...

The news that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is winding down its subsidiary Loon has dealt a blow to efforts to provide affordable Internet to under-served areas of the country. Loon Chief ...

It’s been two years since Google first disclosed Project Loon, and while the company continues to keep most details of the project secret, the technology and challenges behind it are slowly coming ...

Google launched around 20 giant superpressure balloons in New Zealand in June to provide floating internet access. The tech giant said the project could enable the company to divert resources to ...

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