As Google prepares to roll out its Project Loon balloons to bring internet to far-flung locations, the team behind it has given us a look at one of its balloon autolaunchers, Chicken Little. Having so ...

The company is calling time on the project as its path to commercial viability was ‘much longer and riskier than hoped’. Google is pulling its internet balloons from the sky, shutting down Loon as it ...

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 ...

With $54bn (€40bn) in cash, Google can afford to fund experiments such as Loon – the air balloon project run by Google X, the secretive arm of the company that specialises in bold, futuristic projects ...

Google reveals India has shown a ‘great interest’ in its ‘Project Loon’, which envisages to provide affordable Internet access in remote areas through high-altitude balloons placed in the stratosphere ...

Google claims its Project Loon initiative is on track to provide a realistic alternative to traditional mobile networks in unconnected regions of the world. Loon is an ambitious project that attempts ...

The purpose of the project is to be used as a computing module in embedded devices, development projects, or educational settings as it creates an open hardware development board known as Balloon. The ...

Internet giant Google has launched an ambitious plan to use a ring of huge balloons to provide internet to the two-thirds of the world currently without web access. The experiment, codenamed Project ...