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Google has confirmed that one of its balloons had indeed landed in the sea. The Wall Street Journal was later told that it was difficult to keep balloons in one place because of wind conditions. Revealed last year, Google's Project Loon involves deploying hundreds of these balloons in an attempt to provide Internet coverage to remote locations throughout the world. Unfortunately, the company's endeavors have also caused some complications and were recently responsible for knocking out power lines in a Washington town. … [Read more...] about Google Loon Wi-Fi balloon creates panic in New Zealand

"Out of curiosity, I entered 'ftp://[my external ip address]' into my browser and sat wide eyed when I saw the contents of my media server show up," the blogger wrote. "I reasoned it must be because I’m already inside the network (which doesn’t even make sense really), but panic was starting to set in. So I pulled out my phone and turned off the Wi-Fi connection and tried it there. Now I was worried." … [Read more...] about Dear Asus router user: You’ve been pwned, thanks to easily exploited flaw

Google has unveil what it's calling its "latest moonshot" out of the Google X labs. It's called "Project Loon," and as reported last month, it involved sending up a huge number of giant balloons to beam down internet access to remote regions around the globe. Google says that balloons make sense for this purpose — they're cheap to deploy and can provide wireless coverage in areas that would otherwise be difficult to serve due to geography. … [Read more...] about Google unveils ‘Project Loon,’ an experiment to bring balloon-powered internet to ‘the entire world’

Though Google's been conducting test flights for Loon, it soon plans to put more in the air at once and for longer periods of time. According to Wired, it wants to quadruple its current figures to 100 balloons in the air for 100 days each. Eventually, it'll elevate that to between 300 and 400 balloons, enough to continually offer service to its still-unnamed target area. … [Read more...] about Google wants to start beaming internet from its high-altitude balloons next year