The high-altitude internet balloons operated by Google parent Alphabet are improving all the time, with one of them recently floating in the stratosphere for a record 312 days, covering a distance of ...

Alphabet used to believe that its Project Loon Internet connectivity balloons would sail across the world, providing service as they traveled above land. But now, thanks to machine learning, the ...

Alphabet Inc. (GOOG-Q) (GOOGL-Q) is shutting down Loon after concluding the business, which offers balloons as an alternative to cell towers, is not commercially viable, Google’s parent company said ...

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is shutting down Loon, a project that aimed to offer internet from floating balloons, according to a recent blog post from the company’s X moonshot division.

A new project is utilizing the bones of Alphabet’s abandoned Loon project. The project had plans to provide internet access through a series of balloons. Now, Aalyria is using most of the pieces and ...

Google parent company Alphabet has shut down its internet balloon business, Loon, which worked to beam internet to remote parts of the world. The ambitious division, which was founded in 2011, aimed ...

Alphabet's Project Loon is running into some figurative turbulence in addition to the literal kind. Tom Moore, the satellite executive who was brought on as CEO to help Project Loon become a ...

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 ...