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 ...

Alphabet’s Loon has shifted to a different type of navigation system for its internet-beaming balloons. Rather than relying on algorithms designed by humans, the balloons are using an artificial ...

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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.

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 ...

Alphabet’s Loon has discontinued use of man-made algorithms in steering its Internet-providing balloons. Instead, the fleet is directed around the globe by an artificial intelligence. This particular ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Alphabet subsidiary Loon has achieved a new milestone: maintaining an ...

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 ...

It’s been a big week for Loon. Just eight days ago, it was one of Alphabet’s moonshot projects, launching antennas attached to giant balloons into the stratosphere to beam internet down to Earth. Now ...