Alphabet, Google’s parent company, today announced that its X lab for “moonshots” has devised a new method of providing internet connectivity to certain places that will require fewer balloons and so ...

Alphabet has announced a new development for Taara's technology that could lead to low-cost, high-speed internet connectivity, even in far-flung locations. Taara's general manager, Mahesh Krishnaswamy ...

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 ...

Indian telco Bharti Airtel and Google's parent Alphabet project are planning to use lasers to bring Internet services to remote parts of India. Taara, a project from Alphabet's X moonshot labs, aims ...

Remember when balloons were something fun you got at a birthday party or an amusement park. Now they are something a giant tech company wants to use to provide internet access to rural areas around ...

The news that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is winding down its subsidiary Loon has dealt a blow to efforts to provide affordable Internet to under-served areas of the country. Loon Chief ...

In the beginning of 2021, Alphabet shuttered Loon. It was a familiar story within the annals of Google X history: an ambitious moonshot with tremendous upside that sputtered out prior to gaining any ...

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