Over the weekend Google kicked off Project Loon, its experiment to work out whether it's possible to patch internet connectivity gaps around the world with a string of networked balloons. The project ...

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 ...

Remember when balloons were something fun you got at a birthday party or an amusement park. Now they are something a giant tech company wants to use to provide internet access to rural areas around ...

Hurricane Maria demolished Puerto Rico’s brittle electrical grid in one slash across the island. In doing so, it also took the broadband infrastructure with it. A fix could soon be high-altitude ...

Alphabet’s balloon-based Internet connectivity initiative, called Project Loon, is coming to the rescue in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. Project Loon, which was originally conceived as a way to ...