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Following four years of intense technical and regulatory work under the framework of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), national

Friday, January 22, 2021 - President Uhuru Kenyatta's project to provide internet connectivity across Kenya is in limbo after Google shut down its Loon project due to its unviability. The announcement was made on Friday by tech expert Astro Teller, who is in charge of the project that was under Google's mother company, Alphabet. The project…

Jeff Bezos' quest to put the extra-terrestrial in e-commerce

/PRNewswire/ -- Remote sensing company Birdstop, Inc. raised $2.3M in funding to expand its constellation of BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) drones across...

Special balloons and fixed-wing aircraft can act as long-endurance aerial platforms for observation and communication. Known as high-altitude platform stations/systems (HAPS), they fly above most planes but below satellites. Weather, scientific and military balloons are similar; they also ascend to great heights but do not necessarily stay there for a long time. by Dr David Maddison

Academics, private companies, and militaries around the world are building new vehicles capable of flight at the highest altitudes of near-space.

Academics, private companies, and militaries around the world are building new vehicles capable of flight at the highest altitudes of near-space.

In Insider Weekly: We talk about Goldman Sachs' brutal layoffs, why paid sabbaticals are a good thing for everyone, and a new economic agenda.

Insiders say Alphabet is rethinking its iconic Moonshot lab focusing on immediately profitable bets at the expense of some of its ambitious projects.

Africa 2.0 – Inside a Continent’s Communications Revolution presents a 35-year history of the impact of mobile and internet on Sub-Saharan Africa.