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Totally agree. This seems like a clickbait title to cash in on the "yet-another-cancelled-Alphabet-moonshot". It's unfortunate that this particular article abou
by Opossum 10y ago
Totally agree. This seems like a clickbait title to cash in on the "yet-another-cancelled-Alphabet-moonshot".
It's unfortunate that this particular article about this story is on the front page of HN when there are several others[1] that contradict this headline and actually even provide more information.
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https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/16/how-googles-project-loon-balloons-learned-to-loiter/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/16/how-googles-project-loon-b...
http://www.businessinsider.com/project-loon-x-google-alphabet-upgrade-2017-2 http://www.businessinsider.com/project-loon-x-google-alphabe...
http://www.recode.net/2017/2/16/14640470/alphabets-balloon-based-internet-loon-might-actually-work-algorithm http://www.recode.net/2017/2/16/14640470/alphabets-balloon-b...
https://news.fastcompany.com/alphabet-uses-ai-to-expand-coverage-for-its-internet-beaming-balloon-network-by-orders-of-magnitude-4030835 https://news.fastcompany.com/alphabet-uses-ai-to-expand-cove...
https://www.cnet.com/au/news/google-alphabet-project-loon-lab-astro-teller/ https://www.cnet.com/au/news/google-alphabet-project-loon-la...
http://mashable.com/2017/02/16/google-loon-balloon-internet-clusters/ http://mashable.com/2017/02/16/google-loon-balloon-internet-...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/16/google-project-loon-internet-balloons https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/16/google-pr...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4233028/Alphabets-Loon-internet-plan-closer-deployment.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4233028/Alphabe...