After a journey of a decade, what started as Project Loon by Google is no more. Promoted as a way to bring communications to the most remote parts of the globe, it used gigantic, high-altitude ...

Canada’s biggest satellite operator, Telesat, has signed agreements with Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Alphabet’s Loon aerial telecommunicatio ...

Taara, Google's current underdog project run by its X research lab, seeks to replace fiber optic cables with above-ground ...

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A graduate of Alphabet's X moonshot division, Loon is headquartered at Google's home of Mountain View. Sidewalk Labs is Alphabet's infrastructure business, best known for its attempt at building a ...

The Alphabet “moonshot” project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.

Alphabet 's innovation hub, X, is leading a project called Taara, which aims to redefine internet connectivity. The effort ...