X, the moonshot tech division of Google's parent company Alphabet, says it's getting closer to its dream of delivering the internet to rural areas from high-altitude balloons. X announced Thursday ...

Last Friday, engineers on Google parent Alphabet’s internet-by-balloon Project Loon tweeted that they hoped to bring emergency connectivity to Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria left more ...

Alphabet subsidiary Loon, the Google-originated project to provide Internet access using stratospheric balloons, has launched its first commercial service, in isolated regions in Kenya. The balloons ...

The company can now better control its high-flying balloons that aim to blanket remote areas with internet signals. We get a peek inside the Loon lab. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Alphabet subsidiary Loon has achieved a new milestone: maintaining an ...

In a new test, Loon, spun out of Google’s parent company, says it sent a signal 1,000 kilometers. That’s its farthest yet. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on Google and ...

(Reuters) - Experimental communications balloons provided by Alphabet Inc in collaboration with AT&T Inc will allow some of the carrier's customers in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico to send texts and ...

The balloons will beam Internet service to people living in Indonesia. Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help ...