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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 subsidiary Loon has achieved a new milestone: maintaining an ...

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 ...

Loon, the balloon project that aims to deliver internet to parts of the world that lack reliable connectivity, announced today that due to advancements in the machine learning software, it can now ...

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 ...

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.