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In 2014, Google bought Titan Aerospace, maker of high altitude, solar-powered drone aircraft. At the time Google noted, "It's still early days, but atmospheric satellites could help bring internet access to millions of people, and help solve other problems, including disaster relief and environmental damage like deforestation."

Here is a free music site for background music for the research projects.

Project Loon looks to use a global network of high-altitude balloons to connect people in rural and remote areas who have no Internet access at all, help fill coverage gaps for areas that can't be served profitably by existing providers, and rapidly connect people after disasters when existing infrastructure has been compromised.

This is a little information about the Google fiber optic internet project.

My final project for Networking 1 class

Although Google's new privacy policies have proven controversial, that hasn't stopped the company from cementing its position as America's favorite search engine. According the latest survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 83% of American Internet users say they use Google to search most often while just 6% say they use Yahoo most often.

An article relating to my Networking project topic, Piracy and Intellectual Property.

The coming threats to the global Internet could take many forms By Natalie Wolchover and LiveScience | January 20, 2012 | Image: Creative Commons | The Opte Project The raging battle over SOPA and PIPA, the proposed anti-piracy laws, is looking more and more likely to end in favor of Internet freedom - but it won't be the last battle of its kind.

Using a homegrown app on a Samsung Gear Live smart watch, researchers were able to guess what a user was typing through data 'leaks' produced by the motion sensors on smart watches. The project, called Motion Leaks through Smartwatch Sensors, or MoLe, has privacy implications, as an app that is camouflaged as a pedometer, for example, could gather data from emails, search queries and other confidential documents.