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 ...

Google plans to deploy hundreds of Project Loon balloons in an effort to make fast internet more accessible to the citizens of Indonesia. The company will collaborate with Indonesian network operators ...

Google says its Project Loon is close to being able to produce and launch thousands of balloons to provide Internet access from the sky. Such a number would be required to provide reliable Internet ...

Remember when balloons were something fun you got at a birthday party or an amusement park. Now they are something a giant tech company wants to use to provide internet access to rural areas around ...

The news that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is winding down its subsidiary Loon has dealt a blow to efforts to provide affordable Internet to under-served areas of the country. Loon Chief ...

Google's ambitious Project Loon, which aims to deliver internet access via floating balloons, is still going strong after its first year. The web giant is investing further resources into the ...

Project Loon is undoubtably one of the most "Google" projects that Google is working on — Wi-Fi being delivered by giant floating balloons is certainly a unique approach to getting internet to hard-to ...

Filling the skies with whimsical, internet-providing balloons is bound to have the occasional hitch—and down in New Zealand, one of Google’s Project Loon balloons was just mistaken for an airplane ...

Rich DeVaul is the leader of the Google[x] Rapid Evaluation Team and Design Kitchen, two small groups inside Google[x] who prototype, build, and test ideas, searching for the Next Big Thing for Google ...