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+21 +5Mike Rowe of ‘Somebody’s Gotta Do It’ confronts peeping drone while nude, wielding shotgun
Mike Rowe, America’s favorite “everyman,” warned his Facebook followers this week that a peeping drone has footage of him wielding a shotgun in his birthday suit. CNN’s “Somebody’s Gotta Do It” host took to social media Tuesday with a posted titled “Leave Me Adrone!” What followed was the story of an invasive drone that appeared outside Mr. Rowe’s window, his mad dash for a weapon, and a brief stare-down between he and a camera’s red light.
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+2 +1Kids can build a LEGO drone with Flybrix kits
A company called Flybrix is putting legos on the wing. The San Francisco startup today began selling build-a-drone kits for kids age 14 and up comprised of:..
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+29 +3US to pay €1m to family of Italian aid worker killed in drone strike
Landmark deal follows US admission that Giovanni Lo Porto and Warren Weinstein were killed in counter-terrorism mission
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+29 +6California Cops Lose It Over a Drone
One SHARK "Angel" drone causes the California Highway Patrol and the Fresno County Sheriff's Department to totally lose their cool for two straight days.
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+3 +1Drone Capture
A trained young eagle attempts to catch a drone in the Netherlands
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+32 +6'Terminator' robots really COULD wipe out humanity
Huge technological leaps forward in drones, artificial intelligence and autonomous weapon systems must be addressed before humanity is driven to extinction
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+34 +3It’s Finally Legal to Fly Drones Commercially
Get ready: The drone industry is about to take off in a big way.
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+13 +2Drone Captures Stunning View of Uluru
One of Australia's best-known landmarks, Uluru, has been filmed from a new perspective.
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+6 +2Domino’s Is One Step Closer to Delivering Pizzas by Drone
"This isn’t a pie-in-the-sky idea."
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+15 +2IDG Connect How technology can save our endangered animals
As more animals face extinction, new technology and improved partnerships could help provide a solution
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+18 +6It’s Time for Fancy Apartments to Offer Balconies for Drone Landings
Drones are coming, and they're going to change a lot of things about how we shape our lives. So why shouldn't we change how we shape our buildings?
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+6 +1This drone looks and flies just like a bird
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a...drone!
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+7 +1IDRA Road to Drone Nationals 2016
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+10 +1Amazon unveils Prime Air, its new cargo plane
In a partnership with Boeing, Amazon's first cargo plane will take to the skies on Friday, Aug. 5. The company will use Prime Air to deliver goods to Amazon Prime members. Amazon unveiled its first branded cargo plane Thursday, one of 40 jetliners that will make up Amazon's own air transportation network of 40 Boeing jets leased from Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings and Air Transport Services Group Inc., which will operate the air cargo network. Amazon’s first branded cargo plane, Prime One, will take to the skies over Seattle’s Lake Washington for its inaugural flight Friday afternoon...
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+32 +3Drones will begin delivering blood and medicine in the US
A startup that uses drones to deliver medicine and blood to remote areas of Rwanda is launching a similar program in the US. California-based Zipline will bring its drone delivery program to rural and remote communities in Maryland, Nevada, and Washington, including some Native American reservations. Zipline will announce its expansion at a White House workshop on unpiloted aerial vehicles (UAVs) Tuesday morning. Zipline launched in 2014, with support from venture capital firms such as Sequoia Partners and Google Ventures, as well as funding from Paul Allen, a Microsoft co-founder.
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+7 +2Amazon is expanding drone delivery testing in the UK
Amazon is partnering with the British government to expand its testing of delivery drones, paving the way for commercial air deliveries for UK residents. The expanded testing, announced today in a press release, involves Amazon working with the UK Civil Aviation Authority to focus on operating drones outside of the line of sight of pilots, improving sensors for obstacle detection and avoidance, and having one pilot operate a team of multiple, semi-autonomous drones in unison. The project is the latest regulatory victory for Prime Air...
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+34 +6Facebook Completes First Test Flight Of Its Giant Internet Drone
At dawn on June 28, one future vision of mobile broadband Internet connectivity for as many as 1.6 billion people took to the sky for the first time. That morning, with the sun barely over the horizon and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg looking on with a big smile, a giant unmanned aircraft named Aquila and sporting the wingspan of a Boeing 737 lifted off from an airfield in Yuma, Arizona. Meant to be a half-hour demo of the propeller-driven, boomerang-shaped aircraft, the flight worked so well, said the company, that its Connectivity Lab decided to let it fly for 96 minutes.
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+27 +5Control Multiple Drones With Your Mind Using a Wireless Interface
An Arizona State University researcher named Panagiotis Artemiadis has come up with a way to use the human mind in order to control robotic drones. An operator simply has to put on a skullcap that is wired directly to a computer with 128 electrodes. Brain activity is recorded and every time the controller has a thought or moves his hand, certain areas on the computer begin to light up. Artemiadis is the Human-Oriented Robotics and Control Lab director at the university and is also a mechanical and...
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+28 +12These Are the Top Drone Photos in the World
Drones can be controversial. As unmanned flying vehicles that can stealthily spy or drop weapons on people, they’ve been the subject of intense ethical and national security debates. But drones don’t have to be military machines. In the hands of photographers, smaller unmanned vehicles can capture beautiful, unique images that would otherwise go unseen. For the third year in a row, the international Dronestagram contest has recognized outstanding drone photos in this emerging field.
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+21 +6Citizen’s drone spots missing teacher; now sheriff’s office wants one
TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. (WLFI) — The Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office is in the process of buying a drone after a citizen’s drone helped find missing teacher Krista Perdue alive Tuesd…
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