Google's Project Loon explores balloon-powered Internet access (Reuters) - Google Inc has launched a small network of balloons over the Southern Hemisphere in an experiment it hopes could bring reliable Internet access to the world's most remote regions, the company said late Friday. The pilot program, Project Loon, took off this month from New Zealand's South Island, using solar-powered, high-altitude balloons that ride the wind about 12.5 miles - twice as ...
June 15, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Changing Neptune Seasons NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations in August 2002 show that Neptune's brightness has increased significantly since 1996. The rise is due to an increase in the amount of clouds observed in the planet's southern hemisphere. These increases may be due ...
June 14, 2013 - Wired News
No-Brainer Corn Trade Could Bring Home 38% by Harvest Season Crop growing seasons are dictated by the weather. Farmers generally plant in the spring and harvest in the fall. Some countries, like Brazil, in the Southern Hemisphere are able to do the opposite because ...
June 14, 2013 - StreetAuthority Network via Yahoo! Finance