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America Often Doesn't Even Apologize When It Kills Innocents in Drone Strikes
The typical response is that of a hit-and-run driver: flee the scene, pretend nothing happened, and leave victims even worse off as a result.
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New video shows Iranian suicide combat UAV drone. Patched together with duct tape.
Towards the end of September, the Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Force Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan announced that Tehran managed to develop and produce a new type drone, dubbed Ra’ad 85 (Thunder 85). But, unlike all the other Iranian UAVs, Ra’ad 85 is a suicide remotely piloted vehicle capable of destroying both fixed and mobile targets.
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Drones Delivering Pizza? Venture Capitalists Wager on It
Commercial drones will soon be populating U.S. airspace, and venture capitalists like Tim Draper are placing their bets.
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This Sensorless Flying Robot Is Like a Drunken Speeder Bike Orb
After putting its rovers on Mars, Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab showed the world that billion dollar hardware isn't always the answer. And researchers at the EPFL are taking the same technology-on-the-cheap approach with a low-cost autonomous flying drone that simply bumps and crashes into everything in its path instead of relying on expensive sensors and software to avoid obstacles.
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Stream of Reports Say Pakistani Taliban Leader Died in Drone Strike
An American drone strike killed the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, on Friday, according to Pakistani intelligence officials and militant commanders in the tribal belt.
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The CIA, Not The Pentagon, Will Keep Running Obama's Drone War
In May, the White House leaked word that it would start shifting drone operations from the shadows of the CIA to the relative sunlight of the Defense Department in an effort to be more transparent about the controversial targeted killing program. But six months later, the so-called migration of those operations has stalled, and it is now unlikely to happen anytime soon, Foreign Policy has learned.
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Palm-Size Drones Buzz Over Battlefield
Weighing only 0.56 ounces (16 grams), the Black Hornet looks like a tiny toy helicopter. But it's really a nano-size piece of military hardware unlike anything on the battlefield today - experimental robot flies and hummingbirds not withstanding.
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How Robots Will Save Your Life When Disaster Strikes
Search-and-rescue operations are delicate, time-sensitive, and intense. That's why researchers are always looking for new ways to unload some of the dirty work onto robots: machines that will help rescuers get the to the bottom of the rubble—or the top of the mountain—faster and far more efficiently.
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Pakistani Taliban chooses hard-liner as its new leader
The Pakistani Taliban has chosen the commander whose men shot schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai last year as its new leader, after the death of his predecessor, Hakimullah Mehsud, in a U.S. drone strike last Friday.
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Senate panel approves beefed-up oversight of drone attacks
The Senate Intelligence Committee has quietly approved a plan to step up both public and internal government oversight of the use of armed drones to kill suspected militants overseas,
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You Won't Believe These Perfectly Synced Drones Aren't CGI
Autonomous quadcopter drones aren't all about flying into dangerous areas where humans fear to tread. Besides being disposable, they also make for perfectly precise pint-sized pilots, as this Lexus ad entitled Amazing In Motion demonstrates.
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FAA Says Yes to Civilian Drones—and No to Flying Robots
The technology that makes it possible to build self-driving cars is moving much faster than the laws that would allow them to hit the roads. The same pattern may play out with self-flying drones. The Federal Aviation Administration outlined for the first time how it will deal with the rise of the drones (pdf), moving from a system in which it issues approval on a drone-by-drone basis to a more systematic process.
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The Drones of the Civil War
Meet the hot air balloonist who convinced Lincoln to use aerial reconnaissance.
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China 'flies first stealth drone'
China successfully flew a stealth drone for the first time on Thursday, state media said, citing eyewitness reports. A drone, called "Sharp Sword" by the media, made a test flight for around 20 minutes in Chengdu, reports said. China has been developing stealth aircraft in recent years, including J-20 and J-31 stealth fighters.
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What the world must look like to a flying bird
Claytonias F. traveled around America the past few months and documented it all with a quadcopter drone, a Phantom and a GoPro. The aerial views of our wonderful country are incredible to us foot worn humans but probably just a normal Wednesday for flying birds. This is probably the closest we'll come to flying. And it's close enough, I guess.
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Catapult-launched, tactical bat drone wages electronic war
Small, tactical drones may have a new role in military strikes after Northrop Grumman's catapult-launched Bat demonstrated an electronic attack capability for the first time in new tests
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New analysis questions constraint on US drone strikes
Six months after President Obama laid out US rules for using armed drones, a Bureau analysis shows that covert drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan have killed more people than in the six months before the speech.
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Delivery drones are coming: Jeff Bezos promises half-hour shipping with Amazon Prime Air
Jeff Bezos is nothing if not a showman. Amazon's CEO loves a good reveal, and took the opportunity afforded by a 60 Minutes segment to show off his company's latest creation: drones that can...
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Thousands protest US drone strikes in Pakistan
Thousands of people took to the streets in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore to protest against ongoing US drone strikes, amid a rise in local protests against US tactics.
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Consumer drones are coming, and they will change everything
In September, a man crashed a quadcopter on a busy street in New York City. Last month, I accidentally shot footage of the inside of someone’s apartment. Drones cause problems, but the technology is too exciting to write off.
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