Project Loon and Project Wing had been incubating in Alphabet's 'moonshot factory' called X. Now they're becoming independent businesses. Alphabet's balloon-powered internet and delivery drone ...

An Alphabet X innovation lab project has been working on a high-speed wireless optical communications network that uses beams of light instead of cables or radio waves, and folks in Kenya will be the ...

Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., has had a lot of success with its X research division in the past; Chronicle, Waymo, and Verily were all substantial and successful enough to become their own ...

(Reuters) - Google parent Alphabet Inc's X research division said on Wednesday its Wing and Loon projects will become independent companies. Project Loon makes internet-delivery balloons, while ...

In 2017, Alphabet’s drone delivery program reemerged following financial tightening during the prior year. Project Wing has now added a former Amazon executive to head operations in a sign that it’s ...

It has been a little quiet around Alphabet’s Project Wing, but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been any progress. Over the last few years, Project Wing has made thousands of test flights and now they ...

Google’s parent company Alphabet is shutting down a high-profile “moonshot” project called Loon, a design to use helium balloons to deliver cellular connectivity from Earth’s stratosphere, after ...