Astro Teller knows how to draw attention. As the director of X, aka the "moonshoot factory," he famously navigates the Google campus on rollerblades, even indoors. He was wearing his rollerblades on ...

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When Google launched Project Loon a few years ago, the plan was to provide internet access to underserved areas with the help of a series of balloons that would constantly circumnavigate the earth.

Internet-beaming air balloons, developed by Google's sister company Alphabet under the name Project Loon, have racked up over one million hours in the sky -- while the network's AI has learned some ...

Alphabet is changing the course of Project Loon, its plan to cover the Earth with a “continuous stream” of balloons that beam internet to the ground. Astro Teller, the head of the company’s ...

The company can now better control its high-flying balloons that aim to blanket remote areas with internet signals. We get a peek inside the Loon lab. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News ...

After a long series of test runs and stints serving disaster-struck populations in Puerto Rico and Peru, Alphabet’s internet-beaming Project Loon balloons have taken on their first commercial task.

Alphabet's plan to deliver internet connectivity to remote areas of the world via giant balloons may be getting closer to reality. Astro Teller, who heads the team at the Alphabet unit X in charge of ...

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Alphabet’s long-gestating Loon project reached a major milestone today ...

Alphabet-owned Loon, the high-altitude broadband connectivity company for hard-to-reach places, has launched the first balloons that will provide its first ever commercial connectivity services to ...