Last Friday, engineers on Google parent Alphabet’s internet-by-balloon Project Loon tweeted that they hoped to bring emergency connectivity to Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria left more ...

Alphabet Inc. is scrapping its nine-year-old project to use high-altitude balloons to deliver internet access to remote areas. In a blog post Thursday, Alastair Westgarth, CEO of Alphabet’s Project ...

The company can now better control its high-flying balloons that aim to blanket remote areas with internet signals. We get a peek inside the Loon lab. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News ...

Google is notorious for retiring apps and services, whether those were in wide use or not. That doesn't apply to just software either and the company has sunset more than a handful of unsuccessful ...

Alphabet is to shut down Internet balloon company Project Loon. The company announced the news on Friday morning after nine years in development, saying that the project hadn’t found a way to lower ...

Alphabet subsidiary Loon, the Google-originated project to provide Internet access using stratospheric balloons, has launched its first commercial service, in isolated regions in Kenya. The balloons ...