Alphabet will ‘wind down’ Loon’s internet-broadcasting balloons

Posted on 22/01/2021 by Engadget

In 2013 Google shocked us by announcing Project Loon, an effort to distribute wireless connections from balloons floating 20km above the Earth. Now, as first reported by Wired, Google’s parent company Alphabet is pulling the plug on it, apparently be...

Google AI is now piloting Loon’s internet-beaming balloons

Posted on 02/12/2020 by Engadget

Alphabet’s Loon has shifted to a different type of navigation system for its internet-beaming balloons. Rather than relying on algorithms designed by humans, the balloons are using an artificial intelligence system Loon developed with Google AI over...

Alphabet’s Loon sets a new record for longest stratospheric flight

Posted on 28/10/2020 by Engadget

Google parent Alphabet has revealed that one of its Loon balloons spent 312 days aloft, breaking its previous stratospheric flight record of 223 days, by a wide margin. It had quite a journey during that time, launching in Peurto Rico and heading to...

Alphabet’s Loon balloons are helping scientists study gravity waves

Posted on 03/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

In between beaming internet to people in developing countries and sometimes passing for UFOs, Alphabet's Loon balloons have been busy helping scientists study how our planet works. A team led by Stanford professor Aditi Sheshadri recently published a...

Loon’s balloon-powered internet service is live in Kenya

Posted on 07/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

A bit later than expected, Loon has finally launched its balloon-powered 4G internet service in Kenya. Through a partnership with Telkom Kenya, the balloons have served 35,000 customers and are covering about 50,000 square kilometres. Loon has been u...

Alphabet’s balloon-powered Loon internet comes to Mozambique

Posted on 13/05/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Alphabet has announced that Loon will soon provide its balloon-powered 4G internet service to several regions in Mozambique. The company has teamed with local carrier Vodacom to serve the Cabo Delgado and Niassa provinces, two vast regions that curre...

Alphabet’s Loon, telecoms unite to boost high-altitude internet

Posted on 22/02/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Alphabet's Loon just got a big boost from telecoms in its bid to provide high-altitude internet to the world. The company has partnered with several industry giants to form the HAPS Alliance, a group devoted to promoting the use of stratospheric veh...

Loon will bring balloon-powered internet to the Amazon rainforest

Posted on 21/11/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Google's parent company Alphabet is continuing its mission is to bring internet to underserved areas through its Loon balloon-based internet service. Earlier this year, the company reached a milestone of over 1 million total hours of balloon stratosp...

After Math: Never stop not watching

Posted on 28/07/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

I don't know about y'all, but I'm spending this weekend stomping Nazis in the new Wolfenstein title (assuming it ever finished downloading). But if exacting revenge on some of modern history's most notorious villains isn't really your thing, we are s...

Alphabet’s internet balloons have spent a million hours in the stratosphere

Posted on 23/07/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

The fledgling internet balloon industry just marked an important achievement. Alphabet's Loon has recorded over 1 million hours of stratospheric flight for its balloons, covering about 24.9 million miles. The figures aren't completely shocking when...

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