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Farmers Eye Drones For The Future

Drone vs CowLima Pix, via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)Even though humans have been farming for thousands of years, there’s always a new trick to learn or a new technology to try. In modern times, these tricks...

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Watch Mapmaking Drones In Action

Drone Photograph Of An ElephantConservationDrones.Org photograph by Lian Pin Koh via Flicker CC BY 2.0Drones are made of existing technologies: cameras, remote controls, flight, mapping software, and...

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Secret Service Will Fly Its Own Drones To Protect The White House

Secret Service Team On White House RoofJerry Stratton, via Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA-3.0Washington, D.C. is officially off-limits for drones. But just because it’s the law doesn’t mean people listen;...

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Drones Mapped This Giant Volcano, And The 3D Rendering Is Awesome

Ambrym VolcanoGeophile71 via Wikimedia Commons CC0 1.0Volcanoes are cool, but it’s hard to get close to them sometimes because they are literally made out of hot lava. Drones, with their ability to...

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Look At This Tiny Drone [Video]

A Drone In HandUnbox Therapy, screenshot via YouTubeWhen learning to fly remotely controlled aircraft, it’s often best to start small. At under two inches a side, the CX-10 Mini Drone is about as small...

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Smart Drones And Cheap Missiles Could Work Together To Win Future Wars

Artist's Concept, System of Systems DronesScreenshot by author, from YouTubeFor an organization at the heart of the future of war, DARPA can sometimes really undersell what it’s making. Late last...

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South Korea Gets Ready For Drone-On-Drone Warfare With North Korea

Octocopter In FlightLes Chatfield, via FlickrCC BY 2.0The Korean demilitarized zone is an artifact of the Korean War, a heavily defended two-and-a-half-mile-wide static front line for a war that never...

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Air Force's Reaper Sinks Boat For First Time

Reaper In FlightBrian Ferguson, U.S. Air Force, via Wikimedia CommonsThe MQ-9 Reaper is an aerial beast with a terrestrial home. Built as a heavier-armed upgrade over its Predator predecessor, the...

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Air Force Wants Cheap Attack Drones It Can Lose In War

Armed Reaper DroneSteve Follows, Royal Air Force, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Air Force wants something deadly like the Reaper, but a whole lot cheaper and more expendable.Military drones are cheap, but...

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Amazon Wants To Begin Drone Deliveries As Soon As They're Legalized

A century after the Wright Brothers' first flight, it’s not the physics that are stopping a second aviation revolution, it’s the laws. Amazon wants to start using its fleet of drones for delivery as...

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No, North Dakota Isn’t Outfitting Police Drones With Tasers

Grand Forks County Sheriff's Department Dragan FlyerKelsey D. AthertonJudging by headlines flying around the internet, it’d be easy to think that North Dakota is a futuristic cyberpunk wild west, where...

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Motorized Paper Airplanes Are Drones, According To FAA

PowerUp 3.0 Paper PlaneTailorToysIs a paper airplane a drone? For the Federal Aviation Administration, responsible for regulating America’s skies, this is no longer an idle question. The commercial use...

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Qualcomm Wants To Make Drones More Like Cellphones

Snapdragon FlightQualcommIn many ways, cheap drones are just flying cellphones. They communicate using Bluetooth, are heavily dependent on battery power, and use small cameras made possible by the...

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This Drone-Mounted Cannon Fires Irradiated Moths At Crops

Moth-Armed DroneUSDAKeeping moths away from cotton is typically seen as a good thing. But the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has other ideas. In a pilot program, they're using drones to...

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Model Airplane Hobbyists Skeptical Of Proposed Drone Registry

Holger Ellgaard via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0Model Airplane On RunwayTwo sticks of butter weigh about half a pound. While the sticks themselves won’t fly, under a set of proposed drone...

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NASA's Virtual Leash For Drones Prevents Runaway Robots

Screenshot by author, from YouTubeNASA SafeguardLosing a drone can get a person in a lot of trouble. Just ask Shawn Usman, who was flying a drone from his downtown DC apartment on January 26th, when...

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Illicit Delivery Drones Keep Crashing Into British Prisons

Stemonitis via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5Strangeways Prison In ManchesterThe criminals were fast, airborne, and on a one-way mission. Their crime was as daring as it was well-planned: flying over...

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No, The FAA Isn’t Going To Shoot Down Super Bowl Drones

Screenshot by author, from YouTubeNo Drone Zone AdIt is a bad idea to fly a drone near the Super Bowl on Super Bowl Sunday. The FAA, responsible for regulating the safe shared use of America’s skies,...

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Proposed Drone Rule Is Good News For Tiny Aircraft

DJIThere are two drone-flying Americas, but there don’t have to be. As Congress debates the exact wording of the next act reauthorizing the FAA, a new proposal hopes to carve some room in between...

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Army Wants Drones On Demand, 3D-Printed In 24 Hours Or Less

U.S. Army illustrationArmy Drone Printing Part OneNo plan survives first contact with the enemy, according to the old military adage, so military equipment is designed to work under a variety of...

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