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It also couldn’t have come at a worse time amid new flashpoints over COVID lockdowns. On Monday, Newsom announced a new incentive plan providing $6.6 billion to public schools that reopen over the next month, the same day public frustration was flaring anew over a video of Berkeley Federation of Teachers President Matt Meyer taking his 2-year-old to a private preschool and another showing Newsom and celebrity George Lopez inside a restaurant in an area that currently doesn’t allow indoor dining.
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In January, Alphabet announced it would shutter its internet balloon business, Loon.
It followed years of inflating costs and geopolitical headaches for the team.
Meanwhile, the company tried to conjure new ways to make money from cruise liners, offshore oil rigs, and more.
For years, images of Loon s stratospheric balloons could be spotted throughout Google s campuses. Employees pitching to advertising clients would sometimes slip in a picture or mention of the project in their otherwise dull, statistic-heavy decks. Occasionally, a balloon could be spotted drifting across the presentation welcoming new employees to the company.