The stratospheric balloons are now delivering limited mobile Internet services to remote areas of Puerto Rico where cellphone towers were knocked out by Hurricane Maria. In a company blog written by ...

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 ...

Alphabet ended Project Loon earlier this year, but the things it learned from the internet-broadcasting balloon initiative haven't gone to waste. The high speed wireless optical link technology ...

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 ...

Alphabet’s Loon was a stratospheric moonshot that saw the company fly high-altitude balloons to provide cellular network coverage to target areas. The project broke a lot of new ground — including ...

Google parent company Alphabet recently tested a new approach to deliver fast fibre-like broadband to unconnected and underserved communities. One of the firm's famous moon shoot projects, Project ...

Google parent Alphabet announced it was winding down its internet balloon spinout, Loon, in January. The tech giant transferred around 200 Loon patents to Japanese business partner SoftBank. Alphabet ...

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 ...

Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ways tech and science are changing your life. Expertise Erin has been a tech reporter for almost 10 years. Her reporting has taken her ...

Google rebranded in 2015 to invest in ambitious projects like Loon, Nest, and Waymo. But many of its projects have shuttered, sunk cash, or been reabsorbed into Google. Facebook, now Meta, will need ...

Indian telco Bharti Airtel and Google's parent Alphabet project are planning to use lasers to bring Internet services to remote parts of India. Taara, a project from Alphabet's X moonshot labs, aims ...

A pair of reports from CNBC and Bloomberg are detailing a new Google connectivity spinoff called "Aalyria." The new company sounds like it's taking the canceled Project Loon technology, packaging it ...