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 ...

Last Friday, engineers on Google parent Alphabet’s internet-by-balloon Project Loon tweeted that they hoped to bring emergency connectivity to Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria left more ...

The FCC approves a request from Project Loon to provide airborne cell towers that could help restore cell service on the isle. Ed is a many-year veteran of the writing and editing world who enjoys ...

Loon, the former Google X project and now independent Alphabet company, says it has built and deployed a new AI-powered navigation system that leverages reinforcement learning (RL) to steer balloons ...

Only Google could think that the way to improve the flight of giant, helium-filled balloons is by coming up with better algorithms. And to be fair to the Mountain View-based search leviathan, it seems ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California - Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), the new holding company for Google, has teamed up with three Indonesian telecommunications companies to expand Internet access in that country using ...