Alex Davies covers autonomous vehicles and other transportation machines for WIRED. To provide coverage over an area, Loon runs packs of five to 10 balloons. Together, they can provide an aerial mesh ...

The loon rescued Dec. 7 was emaciated, had a lung infection and the start of frostbite, according to Avian Haven's executive ...

Google’s parent firm, Alphabet, is done exploring the idea of using a fleet of balloons to beam high-speed internet in remote parts of the world. The firm said on Thursday evening that it was winding ...

Loon, who was released from prison late last month, claims that his time signed to Bad Boy Records brought him more trouble than before he was actually famous. During an interview with The Breakfast ...

“Good news,” says Katelin Jabbari, Google X’s communications chief. “It’s about to explode.” We’re several hundred feet in the air, inching our way along a wooden walkway tucked high into the rafters ...

Google says Each balloon can provide connectivity to a ground area about 40 kilometers in diameter using LTE wireless communications technology. Credit: Google Loon PARIS — The French space agency, ...

There are five species of loon, all living above the equator. There's the Arctic loon, a hardy tundra-dweller that roosts in northern Eurasia and North America; the Pacific loon, flocks of which ...

One sunny morning in mid-September, a truck crunched over gravel in a Boonville marshaling yard, a parking lot where National Grid keeps construction equipment used in rebuilding transmission lines.

In July 2019 a game warden in Bridgton, Maine, got an unusual call: A bald eagle was floating lifeless in a lake. At the time, biologists suspected the animal might have been shot or poisoned by lead ...

Earlier this month, Mike Cassidy, a project director at Google’s high-risk research division X, woke before dawn in the Northwest Brazilian state of Piauí. It was already warm and humid. He drove for ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A bald eagle likely thought that grabbing a tiny loon chick would be an easy meal. It wasn't.