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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The last we heard, Alphabet’s smart city project was on hold due to privacy concerns, but now it’s moving forward--possibly even bigger than originally planned. Indeed, residents and local ...
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 ...
Project Taara, a part of Alphabet's X moonshot factory, has been working on a wireless optical technology that could deliver high-speed, high-capacity connectivity to remote areas using a network ...
Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google self-driving car project is no longer just a project. Starting today, the tech company's self-driving car efforts have graduated from the Google X ...
Last summer, a small company called Space Data sued Alphabet’s ‘moonshot’ X division. At issue was its effort to deliver internet access to remote areas by balloon, known as Project Loon.
Alphabet’s X (the Google-owner’s so-called “Moonshot Factory”) published a new blog post today about Project Amber, a project it’s been working on over the past three years — the ...