HARRAH, Wash. - Almost a week after one of Google's high-tech Loon balloons crashed in powerlines along Harrah Road in the Lower Yakima Valley, the technology giant acknowledged the incident Tuesday.

They’re not floating jellyfish, mysterious UFOs or a motley crew of Goodyear blimps. No, that bevy of balloons dotting flight-tracking maps 60,000 feet above the Carolinas is actually “beaming the ...

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 ...

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Loon balloons are designed to extend connectivity by travelling on the edge of space, delivering internet connection to people in rural and underdeveloped parts of the world. The balloons float around ...

Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, called this week on the administration of President Joe Biden to greenlight a plan to transmit the internet to people in Cuba via high-altitude balloons ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — A Google-affiliated company has chosen Kenya as the home of its first announced commercial deal for delivering internet access to hard-to-reach areas using high-altitude ...

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, today announced that its X lab for “moonshots” has devised a new method of providing internet connectivity to certain places that will require fewer balloons and so ...

Google's Internet-beaming balloons are ready to take off on the next phase of their mission to deliver online access in regions where most people live offline, according to the company's blog. The ...