17-02-2017 14:20 via telecoms.com

Google moonshot division hopes for Loon boon soon

The bit of Google/Alphabet that tries out new stuff reckons its getting the hang of using balloons to deliver connectivity, sort of.
Google seems to spend as much time trying to think of smart-arse names for its divisions as anything else these days. The holding company is now called Alphabet, apparently just so it could use the URL abc.xyz, and the division responsible for more speculative ventures – or moonshots as they insist on calling them – is just called X. It’s like wat
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