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Alphabet’s X company has announced that it is spinning off Loon and Wing into their own independent businesses which will directly fall under Alphabet. Loon, which is attempting to connect rural areas ...

Last week, the Project Loon team revealed that it was exploring the possibility of deploying balloons to provide “emergency connectivity” to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Earlier today, ...

According to the Times, Project Prometheus already has about 100 employees poached from companies like OpenAI, DeepMind, and ...

Loon, the former Google X project and now independent Alphabet company, says it has built and deployed a new AI-powered navigation system that leverages reinforcement learning (RL) to steer balloons ...

Two of Google’s best-known flights of fancy, Project Loon and Project Wing, are being hatched from their X incubator to become independent businesses under the wing of Alphabet, Google’s holding ...

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In 2013 Google shocked us by announcing Project Loon, an effort to distribute wireless connections from balloons floating 20km above the Earth. Now, as first reported by Wired, Google’s parent company ...

X projects Loon and Wing have left the nest and graduated to independent companies under Google’s parent company Alphabet, X Captain of Moonshots, Astro Teller, wrote in a Medium post yesterday.

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