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Project Loon internet balloons could talk to your phone in 2019

In 2019, you may check your email with the help of a balloon 12 miles up in the sky. Project Loon, from Google parent company Alphabet, uses high-altitude solar-powered balloons instead of the usual land-based cell towers to provide your phone’s wireless connection to the network. It began as a somewhat bizarre project from the company’s X “moonshot” group, but …

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Verizon quietly pulls Wear24 smartwatch after four months

Time has run out for Verizon‘s Wear24 smartwatch after just four months. Verizon Wireless began selling the 4G LTE-connected Wear24 in May for $300. The smartwatch ran Google’s Android Wear 2 software and featured a 1.4-inch AMOLED display and a 450mAh battery with wireless charging. Apparently that battery power wasn’t enough to keep Verizon charged about the Wear24 and the …

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