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 ...

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In 2015, The People’s Daily celebrated the Chinese team’s accomplishment in sending an airship that stayed aloft at 65,000 feet, a feat that required advanced materials in the balloon’s skin. In 2019, ...

Mobile data might seem near-ubiquitous, but the world still has major dead zones and huge expanses with poor coverage. Anyone that has fervently and consistently checked the availability of Verizon's ...

Google's parent company is winding down a project that used highflying balloons to provide internet access in hard-to-reach regions of the world, as it retreats from some of the moonshot projects ...

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 ...

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While Facebook has its New Product Experimentation lab, Google has Google X where it plays around and presents moonshot projects that may (or may not) soar. Think self-driving division Waymo, ...

HARRAH, Wash. - Almost a week after one of Google's high-tech Loon balloons crashed in powerlines along Harrah Road in the Lower Yakima Valley, the technology giant acknowledged the incident Tuesday.