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Alphabet’s moonshot idea of beaming internet connectivity from giant balloons is floating back down to earth.

The Google parent company announced that it’s shutting down the Loon project because the business model is unsustainable.

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“The road to commercial viability has proven much longer and riskier than hoped,” said Astro Teller, who leads Alphabet’s experimental X lab, in a Thursday blog post. “So we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Loon.”

The ambitious venture aimed to deliver affordable internet access to unconnected, remote, and underserved areas.

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GOOGLE PLAY MUSIC died last week. We've known this was coming for some time, and nothing ever happens across the entire Google user base all at once, but many bereaved Google customers are reporting a total loss of life for Google Music. For me the store is gone, speakers no longer work, the app is dead, and the website is dead. It's all gone.

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Google promised three years of updates at launch but stopped updates after one year.

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