Alphabet is spinning out laser-based internet company Taara from its “moonshot” incubator, hoping to turbocharge the start-up that provides high-bandwidth services to hard-to-reach areas in competition with Elon Musk’s Starlink network of satellites.
Taara is the latest project to spring from X — Alphabet’s experimental hub that produced AI lab Google Brain and Waymo’s self-driving cars — and has its origins in a concept called Loon. That envisaged shooting beams of light between thousands of balloons floating on the edge of space to provide phone and internet services across remote areas.
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