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Alphabet is increasingly launching “moonshot” projects as independent companies — here’s why

Alphabet’s X moonshot factory is shifting how it brings ambitious technology projects to market, increasingly spinning them out as independent companies rather than keeping them within the Alphabet ...
CNET

Project Loon brings limited internet access to Puerto Rico

Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on Google and Yahoo. He previously worked for PandoDaily and Fortune Magazine, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, on ...
ZDNet

Alphabet's Project Taara is beaming broadband between two cities, across the world's deepest river

Alphabet's X 'moonshot labs' has beamed 700TB of data across the Congo River, offering a potentially cheaper alternative to laying fiber cables in difficult terrain. Google's solution for crossing the ...
MarketWatch

Alphabet shutting down Loon, its project to beam internet from balloons

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 ...
New Atlas

Alphabet project uses light beams to bring broadband to remote regions

An Alphabet X innovation lab project has been working on a high-speed wireless optical communications network that uses beams of light instead of cables or radio waves, and folks in Kenya will be the ...