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Facebook and Google's race to connect the world is heating up
Facebook, Google and other major tech firms are battling to connect the half of the world's population who don't have internet access, but their solutions might not be best for the people that they're trying to help
www.wired.co.uk
Out of the two tech giants, it’s Google that has had the most to crow about in recent months. On July 11 it spun its rural connectivity project into a fully-fledged company under parent firm Alphabet. The company – now called Loon – plans to beam the internet to rural areas from helium-filled balloons that linger 20 kilometres up in the stratosphere for 100 days at a time. The technology, which has already been trialled in New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Puerto Rico will be used to provide internet to regions of central Kenya, starting from 2019.
如果气球能上网,那么肯定符合那个中国spy balloon 的定义,有天线有通讯有太阳能。而且这些气球不仅仅在美国。