Over the weekend Google kicked off Project Loon, its experiment to work out whether it's possible to patch internet connectivity gaps around the world with a string of networked balloons. The project ...

After eight years, Google’s parent couldn’t see a way to turn a profit off its effort to bring the internet to remote places via high-altitude balloons. A balloon of Google's "Project Loon" to supply ...

A small team will stay on to wrap up Loon's pilot service in Kenya. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In a posting on its Project Loon Google+ page, the Project Loon team said last week that it has ...

Project Loon, the Internet-delivering balloon system that grew out of Alphabet's Project X division, has announced its first commercial deal. According to multiple reports, the recent Project X ...

Google today shared an update from Project Loon, the company’s initiative to bring high-speed Internet access to remote areas of the world via hot air balloons. Google says it now has the ability to ...

The truth may be out there, but it isn’t in a jungle in the Democratic Republic of Congo. What was mistaken for a UFO after it wound up in a dense jungle in the African nation turned out to be an ...

Google parent company Alphabet is shutting down Loon, an ambitious service aimed at delivering internet access to remote areas using balloons. In a blog post published Thursday, Astro Teller, the ...

Google parent Alphabet has announced that it is letting the air out of its internet-beaming balloon project — the latest of the tech giant’s “moonshot” programs to get scrapped. Loon, which used ...

Google has notched up its first national deployment of Loon, signing a deal with the Sri Lankan government to deliver internet access across the country. Sri Lanka on Wednesday announced it intends to ...