As for the wind-down of Loon, a few assets from the project will find themselves absorbed into another Google X project: Taara. Taara involves none of the balloons or other flashy parts of Loon ...

Project Loon, developed by the company's "top secret" Google[x] lab, looks to solve that problem. The balloons will rise about 12 and a half miles into the earth's stratosphere--higher than most ...

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He is co-founder and first project leader of Project Loon, a Google[x] project to explore delivering balloon-powered internet to the 2 out of 3 people in the world who dont currently have access.

A project initially spawned out of Google’s “X” moonshot ... The project, called Loon, was supposed to be a balloon-powered wireless network that provided data service to even the most ...

(Bloomberg) -- 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.

Google’s internet air-balloon service Loon has dispatched a larger fleet of balloons to Kenya after successful launches from the launch site in Puerto Rico this week. According to a tweet by ...

each of Google's balloons cost tens of thousands of dollars to fly, but as Google pushes its research forward, that price will likely go down. Google believes Project Loon could be an enormous ...

Google parent ... from high-altitude balloons, is passing the baton to Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Corp. Alphabet has transfered about 200 patents from its Loon project to the telecoms unit of ...

India has approached the Department of Electronics and Information Technology to conduct pilot test of Project Loon in India ... Under the project, Google will use big balloons, floating 20 ...

He is co-founder and first project leader of Project Loon, a Google[x] project to explore delivering balloon-powered internet to the 2 out of 3 people in the world who dont currently have access.