The Android version of DJI Go 4—an app that lets users control drones—has until recently been covertly collecting sensitive user data and can download and execute code of the developers’ choice, researchers said in two reports that question the security and trustworthiness of a program with more than 1 million Google Play downloads.

It's not a rare sight in American cities for a drone to fly overhead, whether it belongs to a hobbyist, a professional photographer, or law enforcement. Earlier this spring, several cities around the world deployed drones in order to broadcast messages about the importance of social distancing.

Google's Wing drones will begin delivering library books to kids in Christiansburg, Virginia, where it has been testing the service for meals and other items.

But don’t expect your next package delivery via drone.

The U.S. Department of Interior essentially banned Chinese-made drones and drone parts because of the fear of these drones’ potential to be used for spying. The new no-fly rule is explicitly aimed at foreign drones and the only exceptions would be for responding to natural disasters or other emergencies.

IMMOKALEE, Fla. — New technology being developed by University of Florida scientists identifies two dangerous tomato diseases with 99 percent accuracy.

A man in Limassol, Cyprus found a clever way to walk his dog amidst a government-mandated coronavirus lockdown.

As governments search in vain for a technological silver bullet that will contain COVID-19 and allow people to safely leave their homes, officials are increasingly turning to drones. Some have floated using them to enforce social distancing, break up or monitor places where gatherings of people are...

This is an opinion column. This is the sort of picture coal lobbyists in Alabama don’t want you to see. This is the sort of picture a bill before the Alabama Legislature would make it a crime to take. We look down on a patch of woods by a river. In the midst of evergreen trees and dormant hardwoods is a gray swath of land lined with sickly yellow veins creeping toward the water.

This week, on land north of Toronto that previously burned in a wildfire, drones are hovering over fields and firing seed pods into the ground, planting native pine and spruce trees to help restore habitat for birds. Flash Forest, the Canadian startup behind the project, plans to use its technology to plant 40,000 trees in the area this month. By the end of the year, as it expands to other regions, it will plant hundreds of thousands of trees. By 2028, the startup aims to have planted a full 1 billion trees.

A Predator B drone from near-by Airforce bases makes six passes over protestors.

German non-profit group Definetz wants to make defibrillators readily available across its country so that any time someone has a heart attack, the life saving devices are within arms reach. And it's looking to drones to help it bring its vision to fruition.

An aerial drone, a pilotless aircraft of the type that has aroused intense public discussion in recent months, crashed Saturday into the stands at a public event in Virginia that has also aroused heated discourse.

The head of the RAF tells Channel 4 News that the world of "Terminator 2" is coming in response to a question about unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as "drones".

Paranoia over drones misses out on the fact that they’re good at plenty besides killing and spying. From agriculture to mail delivery, Pierre Hines lays out the case for drones.

Over the weekend, a German campaign event in Dresden was disrupted when a small unmanned aerial vehicle—better known as a drone—flew across the crowd and toward the podium where Chancellor Angel Merkel sat.

For almost two years, hackers based in Shanghai went after one foreign defense contractor after another, at least 20 in all. Their target, according to an American cybersecurity company that monitored the attacks, was the technology behind the United States’ clear lead in military drones.

When old fighter jets are retired from service, they're not necessarily mothballed — sometimes, they're turned into unmanned planes for test pilots to shoot down. And that's precisely what's happened with this F-16 retrofitted by Boeing, which was recently tested at Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base.

The U.S. military has been forced to relocate a large fleet of drones from a key counterterrorism base on the Horn of Africa after a string of crashes fanned local fears that the unmanned aircraft were at risk of colliding with passenger planes, according to documents and interviews.

Operating with almost no public notice, the FBI has spent more than $3 million to operate a fleet of small drone aircraft in domestic investigations, according to a report released Thursday by a federal watchdog agency.