AI used to make Google’s high-altitude internet balloons hover in place

Google researchers have found a way to use artificial intelligence to keep the company’s high-altitude internet balloons hovering in place.

The Loon helium balloons beam the internet down to remote locations around the world where service is otherwise impossible or places where disaster has struck.

The tennis court-sized “super-pressure” balloons float 65,000ft above the Earth’s surface but keeping them in one place has been an issue.

They are powered by solar panels and act as “floating cell towers” while up in the air.