The year was 2013: North West was still just a direction on a compass, the only pee tape we knew about involved Justin Bieber and a mop bucket, and Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” was inescapable and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Could Alphabet’s big internet project finally catch wind? In the next few weeks, the company’s internet via balloon skunkworks Loon will come to Kenya for a commercial test in partnership with Telkom ...

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. At first, ...

The Alphabet division that’s building a balloon-powered Internet service has obtained an experimental license “to help provide emergency cellular service in Puerto Rico,” the Federal Communications ...

Alphabet's Loon has officially begun operating its commercial internet service in Kenya . This is the first large-scale commercial offering that makes use of Loon's high-altitude balloons, which ...

BADASS BALLOONS. In 2013, Google unveiled Project Loon, a plan to send a fleet of balloons into the stratosphere that could then beam internet service back down to people on Earth. And it worked! Just ...

Alphabet's Project Loon is running into some figurative turbulence in addition to the literal kind. Tom Moore, the satellite executive who was brought on as CEO to help Project Loon become a ...

The year was 2013: North West was still just a direction on a compass, the only pee tape we knew about involved Justin Bieber and a mop bucket, and Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” was inescapable and ...