Another benefit of the Loon is a bit fuzzier: There is value to having iconic things in a city. Iconography provides one of the many small contributions necessary to support up a sense of civic pride ...

Piper and other scientists working on The Loon Project started monitoring loon ... using satellite images. They compared the satellite data from measurements taken directly from the lake to ...

France's space agency the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) will put its engineering expertise to work on Google's Project Loon in return for help from the search company on its own ...

SoftBank has acquired a number of patents from Alphabet’s now-defunct Loon high altitude balloon project and will be using them to further its own HAPSMobile subsidiary. The Japanese company has ...

even advocating the use of giant balloons as floating Wi-Fi hotspots to allow images of dissent to stream unabated from the authoritarian nation. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) FILE - This Wednesday, ...

The wreckage of Project Loon: Google's high-altitude WiFi balloon, now canceled, crashed on a test flight in Sri Lanka in 2016. Credit: sTR/ AFP via Getty Images The fact that Facebook partnered ...

Salvatore Candido of Google's now-defunct Project Loon venture, which aimed to bring ... Nicholas Kamm/Getty Images With artificial intelligence starting to be used in the real world, it is ...

as a result of which Project Loon has to shut down Google’s parent company Alphabet has announced that it will be shutting down its Loon project, which came out of its research labs that used ...

X has been developing since 2013, and announced that the balloon-based mobile communication system `` Project Loon '', which has been an independent business since 2018, will completely stop the ...

When Google announced "Project Loon" in 2013, a running joke behind the project was that no one thought a network of flying Internet balloons was a feasible idea. Eight years later, Google has ...

A balloon of Google's "Project Loon" to supply remote areas with Internet connections is seen at the ... More developer conference Google I / O in Mountain View, California, 21 May 2016.

Alphabet confirmed in a blog post that it’s winding down its nine-year-old Loon project and a two-and-a-half-year-old spinoff company because it can’t find a sustainable business model or ...