According to Google, more than half of the world's population is still without Internet access. One of Google's ambitious goals is to change that statistic. That's no easy task for several reasons, ...

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Astro Teller knows how to draw attention. As the director of X, aka the "moonshoot factory," he famously navigates the Google campus on rollerblades, even indoors. He was wearing his rollerblades on ...

Project Loon, Google’s internet beaming balloons, have created a significant amount of noise since its inception. The free Internet-spreading concept involves high altitude balloons up in the ...

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Some people turn to Kickstarter for dumb ideas that clearly will not help anyone. (We’re looking at you, potato salad guy.) But other people, like this father of eight from Texas, use the crowdfunding ...

North and South Korea traded machine-gun and rifle fire Friday after South Korean activists released anti-Pyongyang propaganda balloons across the border, officials said, a sudden reminder of the ...

(1) LIEUT.—COLONEL H. HOERNES has, under the title given above, produced a very readable popular hand book, and its low price and handy size should find it a ready market. Its chief value is as an ...