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Meet the man who flies planes from the ground
Pilotless planes will not be entirely autonomous. Like drones, they will be flown by an operator somewhere on the ground who sends commands to the UAV's flight-management system (the "autopilot"), which then manages adjustments to the throttle, flaps and rudder to change heading or altitude, and to take off or land - similar to the automated fly-by-wire systems on many civil aircraft already.
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Renault concept car launches drone to check for gridlock ahead
Renault has dreamed up a concept car that would include a "flying companion" in the form of a quadrocopter. The tiny drone would launch from a special compartment in the car's roof. Should the concept every become reality, the drone could be controlled manually via a tablet or be set to fly autonomously to pre-determined GPS waypoints, presumably matching your driving speed.
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U.S. weighs lethal strike against American citizen
The Obama administration is weighing whether to approve a lethal strike against a U.S. citizen who is accused of being part of the al-Qaeda terrorist network overseas and involved in ongoing plotting against American targets, U.S. officials said.
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See how Google's new 'Project Tango' smartphones sense the world
Netflix decided to have a little fun with the idea with its own promo for "Drone 2 Home," a service that promises delivery DVDs to your home in the minutes you would otherwise spend streaming your content. Hank Breeggemann, general manager for Netflix's DVD division, is shown to enlist a fleet of DJI Phantoms to fly into office bathrooms and cars delivering their goods, places you would obviously want to watch movies.
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This Amazing Footage Shows Why Drone Journalism Is About To Go Mainstream
Using small unmanned aerial vehicles allows photographers to capture amazing footage without spending too much money. Which is very appealing to cash-strapped news organisations.
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Facebook, Titan Aerospace talk deal
Facebook is reportedly in talks with solar drone maker Titan Aerospace to buy the company for $60 million.
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Drones Over Dolphin Stampede and Whales off Dana Point and Maui
Captain Dave Anderson of Capt. Dave's Dolphin and Whale Safari in Dana Point, California, at great personal risk, has recently filmed and edited a 5-minute video that contains some of the most beautiful, jaw-dropping, footage ever taken with a drone from the air of a huge mega-pod .
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Of Drones and Cranes: UAV Technology Aids California Bird Conservation
Sandhill Cranes congregate in great numbers at night, crowded together in flooded fields. How can California conservationists accurately count them. Enter a new tool in bird monitoring: the drone.
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Our Drone Future
In the near future, cities use semi-autonomous drones for urban security. Human officers monitor drone feeds remotely, and data reports are displayed with a detailed HUD and communicated via a simulated human voice (designed to mitigate discomfort with sentient drone technology). While the drones operate independently, they are "guided" by the human monitors, who can suggest alternate mission plans and ask questions.
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Drones will cause an upheaval of society like we haven’t seen in 700 years
The human race is on the brink of momentous and dire change. It is a change that potentially smashes our institutions and warps our society beyond recognition. It is also a change to which almost no one is paying attention. I'm talking about the coming obsolescence of the gun-wielding human infantryman as a weapon of...
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US criticised by UN for human rights failings on NSA, guns and drones
The US came under sharp criticism at the UN human rights committee in Geneva on Thursday for a long list of human rights abuses that included everything from detention without charge at Guantánamo, drone strikes and NSA surveillance, to the death penalty, rampant gun violence and endemic racial inequality.
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US drone intercepted in Crimean airspace - Russia's state corporation
An American scout-attack drone was intercepted in the Crimean sky, the Rostec state corporation reports. "Judging by side marking, the MQ-5B drone was part of the 66th US brigade of military intelligence with the main location in Bavaria," the report on the website of the corporation reads.
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Bigger Than Life - Ice Caves
This Bigger Than Life - Ice Caves segment is the first documented drone flight through ice caves.
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U.S. lags as commercial drones take off around the globe
FAA officials say rules to address the special safety challenges associated with unmanned aircraft need to be in place before they can share the sky with manned aircraft. The agency has worked on those regulations for the past decade and is still months and possibly years away from issuing final rules for small drones, which are defined as those weighing less than 55 pounds. Rules for larger drones are even further off.
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This drone can steal what's on your phone
The next threat to your privacy could be hovering over head while you walk down the street. Hackers have developed a drone that can steal the contents of your smartphone - from your location data to your Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) password - and they've been testing it out in the skies of London. The research will be presented next week at the Black Hat Asia cybersecurity conference in Singapore.
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Kenya to use drones to fight elephant, rhino poachers
Kenya plans to deploy surveillance drones to help fight elephant and rhino poachers and has introduced stiffer penalties for offenders, officials said on Tuesday. Poaching has risen in recent years across sub-Saharan Africa where well-armed criminal gangs have killed elephants for tusks and rhinos for horns that are often shipped to Asia for use in ornaments and medicines.
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South Korea Finds Drone Near Sea Border With North
South Korean military authorities are investigating a drone that crashed on an island near the disputed sea border with North Korea, the defense ministry in Seoul said on Tuesday. A local resident found the drone on Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea on Monday, when the two Koreas traded hundreds of rounds of artillery firein the area, defense ministry spokesman Kwon Ki-hyeon said. “The military authorities recovered parts of the drone for investigation,” he said.
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Seoul examines 'North Korea drone'
South Korea says it is analysing what it believes to be a North Korean drone that crashed on a border island shortly after an exchange of artillery fire with North Korea. The drone crashed on Baengnyeong island on Monday afternoon.
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A giant art installation targets predator drone operators
In military slang, Predator drone operators often refer to kills as ‘bug splats’, since viewing the body through a grainy video image gives the sense of an insect being crushed. To challenge this insensitivity as well as raise awareness of civilian casualties, an artist collective installed a massive portrait facing up in the heavily bombed Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa region of Pakistan, where drone attacks regularly occur.
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Amazon's airborne delivery system is already designing an 8th-gen drone
If you thought Amazon's recently announced plans to soon begin delivering packages by drone were the pipe dream of a company with more money than sense, the latest news might give you pause for thought. In a long letter to shareholders published with the SEC, Bezos said that the Prime Air team is "already flight testing our fifth and sixth generation aerial vehicles, and we are in the design phase on generations seven and eight."
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