{"id":2418,"date":"2017-01-12T17:27:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.com\/?p=2418"},"modified":"2017-01-12T17:27:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:27:06","slug":"alphabet-drops-dream-drones-providing-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/01\/12\/alphabet-drops-dream-drones-providing-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet drops dream of drones providing internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google parent company Alphabet on Wednesday confirmed that it is opting for balloons instead of drones in its quest to deliver internet service from the sky.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alphabet, which not only owns Google but also Google X, which is devoted to creating world-changing new technologies, told AFP that it gave up on its internet drone project, called Titan, about a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Its staff moved elsewhere at X, including a project called Loon focused on creating a network of high-altitude balloons that would provide internet service to people on the ground no matter how remote.<\/p>\n<p>Some people from the team also shifted to Project Wing, which is creating delivery drones, according to an X division spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team from Titan was brought into X in late 2015,\u201d the spokesperson said in an email to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ended our exploration of high altitude UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) for internet access shortly after.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The economics and technical feasibility of balloons are seen as a more promising way to connect rural and remote parts of the world to the internet, according to X.<\/p>\n<p>Leading online social network Facebook is continuing to develop an Aquila drone for beaming internet connection from the sky.\u2014AFP<\/p>\n<p>Image:\u00a0abc.xyz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google parent company Alphabet on Wednesday confirmed that it is opting for balloons instead of drones in its quest to deliver internet service from the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}