Taara - A Google X Moonshot

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Loon’s final flight. Loon’s time as an Other Bet is coming… | by Astro Teller | X, the moonshot factory https://blog.x.company/loons-final-flight-e9d699123a96?gi=b913b3d1667e 250 comments
Lasers could take broadband where fiber optics can’t | CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/09/tech/lasers-fso-internet-attochron-spc/index.html 94 comments
Alphabet’s Project Taara laser tech beamed 700TB of data across nearly 5km - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/16/22677015/project-taara-fsoc-wireless-internet-kinshasa-congo-fiber 65 comments
Alphabet gives up on balloon-powered internet | Mashable https://mashable.com/article/alphabet-loon-shutting-down/ 26 comments
Alphabet delivers wireless Internet over light beams from 20km away | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/11/alphabet-delivers-wireless-internet-over-light-beams-from-20km-away/ 18 comments
Alphabet Is Grounding Loon—but Won't Call It a Failure | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-alphabet-pops-loons-balloons/ 10 comments
Alphabet is shutting down Loon connectivity firm https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/21/google-alphabet-is-shutting-down-loon-internet/ 9 comments
Bringing light-speed internet to Sub-Saharan Africa | by Mahesh Krishnaswamy | X, the moonshot factory https://blog.x.company/bringing-light-speed-internet-to-sub-saharan-africa-4e022e1154ca 1 comment
What Does It Take To Be a Tech Giant? | Miguel Rochefort https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/tech-giant/ 0 comments
Issue No. 101 | The Orbital Index http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-01-27-Issue-101/#remembrance 0 comments
Loon’s final flight. Loon’s time as an Other Bet is coming… | by Astro Teller | X, the moonshot factory https://blog.x.company/loons-final-flight-e9d699123a96 0 comments
Reading List 03/22/25 - by Brian Potter https://www.construction-physics.com/p/reading-list-032225 0 comments