Google Launches Giant Balloons That Beam Internet to Homes

Posted on June 15, 2013

Google is testing giant balloons that can beam the Internet to remote locations. The AP reports that Google is currently testing the technology in fifty homes in New Zealand. Google's Project Loon could be used to bring the Internet to parts of the world that do not have Internet access.

Google Project Loon founder Richard Devaul says 4.8 billion people still don't have Internet access.

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