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Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon company

The Verge

Loon has also provided internet services to areas affected by natural disasters, deploying balloons to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017 and to Peru following an earthquake in 2019. And Project Foghorn, which researched how to create clean fuel from seawater, ended its work in 2016.

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Open source project Tea is brew2 for web3

TechCrunch

Howell sees the rise of new projects in the web3 space as an opportunity to reshape how these open source developers are compensated for their work. They fixed the bug, but they pointed out quite fairly that no one sponsors their project or gives them any money in [exchange for] their free time,” Howell said.

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Alphabet’s Loon balloons provide their first commercial internet service in Kenya

The Verge

It’s a significant step for Loon, which started as a moonshot project in Alphabet’s X division before being spun out into its own company in 2018. It also has several other projects in the pipeline. Going forward, Loon says it hopes to offer internet connectivity as part of more commercial services around the world.

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“Seeding by ceding”: What we know about the latest group of organizations funded by MacKenzie Scott

Candid

As we did with Scott’s previous grant recipients , we examined the organizations and projects Scott selected to see what we might learn about her approach to grantmaking. and Puerto Rico. An analysis of organizations and projects funded against Candid’s Philanthropy Classification System validates her statement. .

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Our EveryAction Hero: World Central Kitchen

Everyaction

Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. Last year disaster relief once again became the main focus of our organization as we activated and served over 4 million meals in Peru, Houston, Puerto Rico, and California. And it worked really well in Puerto Rico - we’ve served over 3.6

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Boeing gets green light for satellite internet constellation

The Verge

The Federal Communications Commission has authorized a satellite internet project from Boeing first proposed in 2017. All 147 satellites would broadcast in the V-band, a higher-frequency slice of the wireless spectrum than the Ka and Ku bands used by SpaceX’s Starlink network or Amazon’s yet-to-be-deployed Project Kuiper satellites.

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Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 30th Demo Day today

TechCrunch

RED Atlas: A platform for real estate insights and analytics, focusing first on Puerto Rico. GiveShop: A matchmaking platform to connect companies that want to give with social impact projects that need money. Firecell: Helps enterprises build private 4G/5G networks.