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Amazon wants to use drones by 2018. An Australian startup will do it by March
Back in October, PandoDaily broke the news that Zookal, a textbook rental startup based in Sydney, had helped form a joint venture called Flirtey to enable delivery by unmanned aerial vehicles. Australia was the first country in the world to allow private drone use, meaning it has a head start on the US, whose FAA won’t release rules on commercial drones until 2015.
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Amazon drones: nine ways it could go horribly wrong
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has unveiled plans for Amazon Prime Air, which allows the online retailer to use unmanned drones to deliver small packages. Daniel Johnson speculates on nine ways the new delivery service is a disaster waiting to happen
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U.S. successfully launches drone from submerged submarine
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory on Thursday announced it successfully launched a drone from a submerged submarine. The technology is being pursued to give sailors additional intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance abilities. Some of the funding for the project came from SwampWorks, a program of the Office of Naval Research that focuses on innovative and cutting-edge technologies.
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Super-secret drone runs test flights over Area 51, report says
A new, super-secret stealth drone - constructed to fly over heavily-defended, hostile areas - is now running test flights at the Air Force’s infamous Area 51 site in Nevada – and could be in military service by 2015, according to Aviation Week.
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Amazon drones are 'fantasy,' says eBay CEO
In the race to deliver online shopping purchases faster, drones don't impress eBay's CEO. "We're not focusing on long-term fantasies, we're focusing on things we can do today," John Donahue said in a televised interview with Bloomberg TV Friday morning.
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It was illegal for Amazon to shoot that drone video in the U.S., so it went abroad
This shows how much the United States lags behind other countries when it comes to drones.
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How Matternet Wants To Bring Drone Delivery To The People Who Need It Most
A Silicon Valley startup Matternet has been developing drone delivery technology for several years now. The company’s co-founder and CEO Andreas Raptopoulos’ TED talk from this past summer about the potential to use small drones for delivery purposes has garnered more than 200,000 views since it was posted online last month — and perhaps helped to inspire Bezos himself
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Drone Warfare Protest at CIA Follows Strike on Civilians in Yemen
Following a deadly U.S. drone strike on civilians in Yemen, members of a dozen peace groups wearing blue scarves gathered at the entrance of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. With guards and barricades on one side and cars whizzing by on Rt. 123 on the other, they held a vigil in memory of civilians, especially …
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If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding, We'd Ground Our Fleet
But after a dozen or more deaths at a Yemeni wedding, don't expect anything to change.
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How many drones would it take to replace Santa?
Mathematics teachers have long enjoyed using Santa Claus and Christmas Eve as an opportunity to talk about the travelling salesman problem (TSP). In this problem, you are given a list of cities and asked to determine the most efficient route that visits every single city exactly once and returns home.
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Fear of Drones
Conquest isn’t what it used to be. Large scale invasions and occupations are out of the question. The West is still militarily preeminent on paper, yet in practice its coalitions have floundered in Iraq and Afghanistan. This situation has forced a shift away from conventional military force towards a more politically palatable method of warfare centering on the use of special forces, mercenaries and drones.
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Video: Christmas Lights of Boise, Idaho by RC drone
A neat video showing all the best Christmas lights from this year in Boise Idaho. Merry Xmas!
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Army's New Laser Weapon Can Shoot Down Mortars and Drones
The Army has successfully tested a futuristic laser weapon capable of shooting football-sized mortar rounds and unmanned drones out of the sky. The truck-mounted weapon, known as the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD) is still about a decade away from becoming an operational part of the Army's arsenal, but gives a hint at what a weapon of the future could look like.
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Rolls-Royce to plot a course to the future with drone ships
Amazon may have embraced the robotics revolution with the promise of drones making deliveries to your door, but Rolls-Royce has taken it one step further and is predicting the first drone cargo ship will enter service in the next decade. The UK engineering group, one of the world's largest suppliers to the commercial shipbuilding industry, has called for a public debate on the switch from crewed cargo vessels to autonomous ships
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I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on
Few of the politicians who so brazenly proclaim the benefits of drones have a real clue how it actually works (and doesn't)
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Former US drone operator: 'We always wonder if we killed the right people'
As the debate over military drone use rages on, The Guardian has published an unexpected voice on the topic, that of a former US drone operator who openly questions the program. An imagery analyst for the Air Force from 2009 to 2012, Heather Linebaugh says the people making decisions about the drone program are mostly ignorant of the brutality of the casualties inflicted.
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FAA announces drone testing projects at three universities, one airport, and the state of Nevada
The new drones are coming, and thanks to an FAA announcement this morning, we now know exactly where they'll be. After a 10-month study of possible sites, the FAA has announced six sites where...
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Cloak and Drone: The Strange Saga of an Al Qaeda Triple Agent
For years, Hassan Ghul was a critical member of Al Qaeda, until sources say he was turned and sent back to infiltrate the enemy. So why did a CIA drone kill him in Waziristan?
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The Wedding That a U.S. Drone Strike Turned Into a Funeral
A human-rights activist who interviewed witnesses said women and children in a nearby village are still too fearful to sleep through the night.
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German security contact dies in US drone attack
A German man has reportedly been killed in a US drone attack in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Although a convert to Islam, he was said to be in contact with German security officials.
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