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Remember the Loon Project to Kenya? It was one of Google's parent company, Alphabet, long-term experimental projects. The company is saying goodbye to this project that was supposed to beam internet to rural areas of the world. “While we’ve found a number of willing partners along the way, we haven’t found a way to get the costs low enough to build a long-term, sustainable business,” said Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth said in a blog post Thursday. “Developing radical new technology is inherently risky, but that doesn’t make breaking this news...