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Project Loon/YouTube — -- Alphabet's Internet-beaming balloons, known as "Project Loon," will be put to the test next year when they're launched into the stratosphere above Indonesia.
The Federal Communications Commission has given Alphabet's Moonshot Factory approval to deploy its Project Loon balloon-based communications system to provide cellular connectivity in hurricane ...
As Alphabet's experimental X division chief and "Captain of Moonshots" Astro Teller wrote today, the project team has "now exceeded even their own expectations," in the attempts to build a network ...
Google parent Alphabet Inc. shut down Loon, an audacious project to beam internet service from high-altitude balloons, after the unit failed to develop a viable business model. “While we’ve ...
Almost three years after announcing a plan to delivery Internet access via high-altitude balloons, Alphabet X’s Project Loon is set to begin testing service with carriers in Indonesia later this ...
The documents do not mention Project Loon by name. Alphabet did not respond to a request for comment. Project Loon comes out of the secretive Google X laboratory for experimental projects such as ...
Now they have. At “The Z Party,” the official wrap-up for artist Anna Schuleit Haber’s “The Alphabet” project at the Fitchburg Art Museum on Tuesday evening, artists, typographers ...
Alphabet’s Project Wing drone initiative appears to have hit severe turbulence. Again. Launched by Google but now overseen by its parent company, Alphabet, investment in Project Wing has been ...
Google's parent company Alphabet is being forced to scale back its drone delivery program, Project Wing. According to a report by Bloomberg's Mark Bergen, some Project Wing staffers are being laid ...
Alphabet has spun out a new networking and communications unit based on technologies originally developed for its high-altitude balloon Loon Project. First reported by Bloomberg, Aalyria is spinning ...
Japanese auto giant Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) and Alphabet, Inc.’s (GOOG) (GOOGL) Waymo are in early talks for a collaboration aimed at accelerating autonomous vehicle development and deployment.
The University of Massachusetts Lowell Department of Art and Design is thrilled to present The Alphabet Project: A City, a Newspaper, and 26 Letters. This exhibit will be on display in the University ...