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Ukraine Rolls Out Target-Seeking Terminator Drones
Ukraine is now building autonomous attack drones in large numbers. These do not need human pilots, a game-changing technology with implications far beyond this conflict.
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Eyes in the sky: why drones are ‘beyond effective’ for animal rights campaigners around the world
Inexpensive and easy to use, drones are proving invaluable for activists monitoring illegal fishing, hunting and deforestation – as well as keeping tabs on zoos and aquariums
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These nifty drones can lock together in mid-air to form a bigger, stronger robot
As units of the TRADY system, these flying robots can break apart to go through small spaces, or combine to take on big jobs.
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A gigantic Navy drone is ready to surveil the ocean from above
The Triton aircraft has a wingspan wider than a Boeing 737's. The program just reached an important milestone.
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Health from above: a drone to deliver defibrillators to heart attack victims
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.
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Drone crashes into Virginia bull run crowd
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.
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World of 'Terminator' is coming, says RAF chief
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".
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Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the 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.
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German Pirate Party Uses Drone to Crash Angela Merkel Event
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.
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Hacking U.S. Secrets, China Pushes for Drones
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.
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Watch a retired F-16 fighter return as a target practice drone
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.
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U.S. moves drone fleet from Camp Lemonnier to ease Djiboutiâs safety concerns
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.
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FBI has been using drones since 2006, watchdog agency says
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.
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'Drones Might Be the Future of Food'
When Chris Anderson started building drones, he had no idea what a crop survey was. He had never even been on a farm - at least, not "professionally." But about a year and half ago, he found out that farmers were getting excited about drones - and now, so is he.
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This Drone Is Going To Find Bigfoot
There are two ways to explain why Bigfoot can’t be found. There’s the conventional view - that Bigfoot doesn’t exist - and then there’s what we might call the Donald Rumsfeld view: that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. In this view, we haven’t found Bigfoot because we haven’t looked hard enough. Specifically, we haven’t looked with drones.
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Malala meets Barack Obama and asks him to end Drone Strikes
Education Activist Malala Yousafzai met U.S President Barack Obama at White House. Malala asked Obama to end Drone Strikes. The Obamas welcomed Malala Yousafzai to the Oval Office “to thank her for her inspiring and passionate work on behalf of girls education in Pakistan,” according to a statement issued by the White House.
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U.N. tells U.S. to release drone assassination data
"The single greatest obstacle to an evaluation of the civilian impact of drone strikes is lack of transparency"
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PETA uses drones to expose hunters' 'dirty secrets'
You thought it was just governments who used drones? No, no. PETA claims its "Air Angel" drones will seek hunters who get up to nefarious, cruel, or just plain stupid activity.
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Turn Your Quadcopter Into the Best Halloween Decoration Ever
Once you realize how boring your neighborhood is from the air, that expensive quadcopter you bought should find a good home in the rafters of your garage. But don't bury it too deep, you'll need access to it around Halloween every year because Alton Porter has come up with the perfect use for your forgotten drone: turn it into a flying banshee.
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Confessions of America's Best Drone Pilot
He was an experiment, really. One of the first recruits for a new kind of warfare in which men and machines merge. He flew multiple missions, but he never left his computer. He hunted top terrorists, saved lives, but always from afar. He stalked and killed countless people, but could not always tell you precisely what he was hitting. Meet the 21st-century American killing machine. who's still utterly, terrifyingly human
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