Google sent an internet balloon around the world in 22 days When Google announced Project Loon, its bid to provide free global internet access using a network of high altitude balloons, we were ...

A little over four years ago, Google started talking about what it called Project Loon--an ambitious plan to deploy balloons roughly 11 miles up to create an aerial wireless network. The balloons are ...

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 ...

Alphabet has added a couple more companies to its portfolio of subsidiaries, now that two of its moonshot projects have graduated to become full-fledged independent businesses. Google's parent company ...

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 ...

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, today announced that its X lab for “moonshots” has devised a new method of providing internet connectivity to certain places that will require fewer balloons and so ...

Google says its Project Loon is close to being able to produce and launch thousands of balloons to provide Internet access from the sky. Such a number would be required to provide reliable Internet ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rich DeVaul is the leader of the Google[x] Rapid Evaluation Team and Design Kitchen, two small groups inside Google[x] who prototype, build, and test ideas, searching for the Next Big Thing for Google ...