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 ...

It comes after volunteers with the DNR say they’re seeing fewer chicks on Minnesota lakes in recent years. That has the ...

Alex Davies covers autonomous vehicles and other transportation machines for WIRED. To provide coverage over an area, Loon runs packs of five to 10 balloons. Together, they can provide an aerial mesh ...

Could Alphabet’s big internet project finally catch wind? In the next few weeks, the company’s internet via balloon skunkworks Loon will come to Kenya for a commercial test in partnership with Telkom ...

Alphabet’s Loon has been using algorithmic processes to optimize the flight of its stratospheric balloons for years now — and setting records for time spent aloft as a result. But the company is now ...

Google parent Alphabet announced it was winding down its internet balloon spinout, Loon, in January. The tech giant transferred around 200 Loon patents to Japanese business partner SoftBank. Alphabet ...

It's peak summer on Minnesota's Gull Lake Chain. Boats are buzzing, jet skis slicing and loons are calling. "So it sounds like a territorial challenge that's starting," said Sheila Johnston, listening ...

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 ...

Release the Loons! The only competition of its kind, our custom designed and made in America loons launch into Rich Lake to land in the winner’s circle. Prizes will be awarded to the three loons that ...