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Killer drone ‘hunted down a human target’ without being told to
The March 2020 attack was in Libya and perpetrated by a Kargu-2 quadcopter drone produced by Turkish military tech company STM
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The age of killer robots may have already begun
A drone that can select and engage targets on its own attacked soldiers during a civil conflict in Libya. Why it matters: If confirmed, it would likely represent the first-known case of a machine-learning-based autonomous weapon being used to kill, potentially heralding a dangerous new era in warfare.
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Kroger begins testing drone deliveries for baby products and s’mores
Partnering with Drone Express in Ohio, then California
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Attack of the drones: the mystery of disappearing swarms in the US midwest
When groups of sinister drones began hovering over homes in America’s Midwest, the FBI, US Air Force and 16 police forces set up a task force. But the drones vanished. Did they even exist? Amelia Tait investigates
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Drone Reforestation: The Future of Rebuilding Earth’s Forests with Scalable Technology
To commemorate Earth Day on 22 April, AZoCleantech is taking a closer look at deforestation and exploring drone reforestation technology with real, scalable potential to help Earth recover from the harmful effects of climate change.
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This is What Happens When You Fly a Drone Into a Volcano
While drones allow photographers to get very close to erupting volcanoes, it's not without risk: the drones don't always emerge unscathed.
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Why drones are on the brink of changing our world
UAV Training Australia’s Wayne Condon explains how the industry went from recreational to commercial in the last few years.
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Ghana is using drones to deliver vaccines
Zipline is making use of drones to deliver these vaccines, with doctors being able to use the company's app to carry out and follow their vaccine orders.
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There have been zero reported US drone strikes since Joe Biden took office
The apparent lull — punctured by one US airstrike targeting ISIS in Iraq — is unusual for a new presidency.
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Drone Swarms Are Getting Too Fast For Humans To Fight, U.S. General Warns
General John Murray, head of Army Futures Command, told a webinar audience at the Center for Strategic & International Studies that humans may not be able to fight swarms of enemy drones, and that the rules governing human control over artificial intelligence might need to be relaxed.
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The U.S. Military Wants to Kill Everything with Lasers
Strykers will incinerate enemy drones, helicopters, aircraft, and maybe even incoming enemy missiles, rockets, and artillery with 50kw laser weapons during an upcoming “combat shoot-off” at Fort Sill, Okla.
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Flamethrower drone incinerates wasp nests in China
BEIJING (AP) — A drone has been converted into a flying flamethrower in central China in a fiery campaign to eradicate more than 100 wasp nests.
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Drone completes first freight flight to Isles of Scilly
A drone has successfully carried supplies from the mainland to the Isles of Scilly for the first time. It completed the 60-mile (97km) round trip, delivering an NHS supply box to St Mary's airport. The Isles of Scilly Steamship Group (ISSG) said the flight "paves the way" for a "new lifeline connection" with the remote islands off Cornwall.
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This tiny drone uses an actual moth antenna to sniff out target chemicals
Sometimes it’s just not worth it to try to top Mother Nature.
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Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves
When the Chula Vista police receive a 911 call, they can dispatch a flying drone with the press of a button. On a recent afternoon, from a launchpad on the roof of the Chula Vista Police Department, they sent a drone across the city to a crowded parking lot where a young man was asleep in the front seat of a stolen car with drug paraphernalia on his lap.
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The world's biggest drone debuts, and it weighs nearly 28 tons
A private rocket-launch startup unveiled its fully autonomous drone designed to drop a rocket in midair that shoots small satellites into orbit without a launchpad. Alabama-based company Aevum rolled out its Ravn X Autonomous Launch Vehicle at the Cecil SpacePort launch facility in Jacksonville, Fla., on Thursday.
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Government Argues In Court That It Can Kill US Citizens At Will With Zero Judicial Oversight
The federal government is back in court, arguing for its unilateral right to kill US citizens. Two journalists who had appeared to have been mistakenly targeted by drone strikes sued the government in 2017, seeking an injunction forbidding their own...
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Amazon is reportedly laying off dozens of employees working on its long-awaited drone project
Amazon is reportedly laying off dozens of staff working on its delivery drone project, Amazon Prime Air, turning to external manufacturers to help build the devices instead. The jobs would be lost in research and development as well as in manufacturing, the Financial Times reported Thursday, citing a person familiar with Amazon's plans.
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Amazon’s Surveillance Drones Violate FCC Rules. It's Time To Enforce Them
Home surveillance devices like Amazon Ring are already illegal, but the Republican-led FCC has done nothing to enforce its own rules. Albert Fox Cahn is the founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) at the Urban Justice Center and a fellow at the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law & Policy at N.Y.U. School of Law.
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China experiencing a drone ‘revolution’ in agriculture
While China is leading the way in military uses for drones, it is facing a revolution of sorts in another sector. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles or drones in agriculture is expanding in China at a speed unmatched in other countries thanks to advances in autonomous navigation technology and the presence of competent operators, Nikkei Asia reported this week.
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