The video was uploaded to the Project Loon Google+ page. It sees Loon’s project leader Mike Cassidy giving a behind-the-scenes look at how Project Loon has progressed from its earliest stages to the ...

Project Loon was an interesting idea to deliver internet access to rural and hard to reach areas of the world. Project Loon launched in 2013 and has been tested in countries like Australia, Brazil, ...

The stratospheric balloons are now delivering limited mobile Internet services to remote areas of Puerto Rico where cellphone towers were knocked out by Hurricane Maria. In a company blog written by ...

About two thirds of the people on the planet don’t have access to the internet. Plenty of people have ideas about how to change that — it’s cheaper to build 3G cellular towers in some parts of the ...

Project Loon is now set for its first commercial trial of a permanent ballooned-powered internet service — once approval is provided. The entire program has been developed to provide internet ...

A little over four years ago, Google started talking about what it called Project Loon--an ambitious plan to deploy balloons roughly 11 miles up to create an aerial wireless network. The balloons are ...

After eight years, Google’s parent couldn’t see a way to turn a profit off its effort to bring the internet to remote places via high-altitude balloons. A balloon of Google's "Project Loon" to supply ...

Corinne Reichert (she/her) grew up in Sydney, Australia and moved to California in 2019. She holds degrees in law and communications, and currently writes news, analysis and features for CNET across ...

Google today shared an update from Project Loon, the company’s initiative to bring high-speed Internet access to remote areas of the world via hot air balloons. Google says it now has the ability to ...

You climb 170 steps up a series of dusty wooden ladders to reach the top of Hangar Two at Moffett Federal Airfield near Mountain View, California. The vast, dimly lit shed was built in 1942 to house ...