Drones News
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The disclosure of widespread torture of Muslim detainees, CIA spying on the U.S. Senate, and police violence, especially against blacks, raises the question of whether the U.S. has become a police state.
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In the middle of the Austrian countryside, a few sleek, high-tech drones sit in a bright production hall, ready for missions over Ukraine, the Mediterranean or the Middle East.
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Riverside -
Vocademy is a 15,000 square-foot makerspace that contains high-tech tools where anyone can create just about anything. With their 1st year anniversary a few days away, they held an event that brought together makers of all kinds.
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Washington D.c. -
A Texas volunteer based non-profit search and rescue organization can resume its operations after winning its court battle against the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Baghdad -
Armed American drones were flying over Baghdad to defend U.S. military advisers and diplomats as Iraqi forces readied a massive operation Saturday to take back Saddam Hussein's hometown from Sunni militants.
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Baghdad -
The United States confirmed Friday it was flying armed drones over Baghdad to defend Americans, as Iraqi forces fought for a strategic university and launched air strikes in militant-held Tikrit.
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Washington -
America’s reliance on secretive drone missile strikes against terror suspects has set a "dangerous precedent" that could be imitated by other countries and trigger wider wars around the world, former senior U.S. officials said in a report Thursday.
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These days things that seem to be falling from the sky could be real: most likely drones or even Wi-Fi balloons. There soon will be many more of these devices flying.
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Geneva -
Armies of Terminator-like warriors fan out across the battlefield, destroying everything in their path, as swarms of fellow robots rain fire from the skies.
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Geneva -
Armies of Terminator-like warriors fan out across the battlefield, destroying everything in their path, as swarms of fellow robots rain fire from the skies.
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Seoul -
North Korea on Monday denounced South Korea's claim that Pyongyang sent a trio of spy drones across the border as a provocative "charade" organised by its "prostitute" president, Park Geun-Hye.
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A research project at the MIT university has enabled a student to produce a prototype version of a small unmanned drone that can land on nearby power lines in order to recharge itself when it runs short of power without returning to base.
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Poaching is still a major problem in sub-Saharan Africa, with Kenya losing 18 rhinos and 51 elephants to well-armed poachers already this year. In 2013, 59 rhinos and 302 elephants were lost, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).
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There is a growing interest in the use of unmanned drone aircraft to help monitor the millions of acres farmland and crops.
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Max Keiser recently tipped his hat to popular radio host Alex Jones while talking about drones and corporations in a Russia Today segment.
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Australia has committed to purchasing the U.S.
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A TV journalist is suing the Hartford Police Dept. after he was stopped from using a drone to film an accident scene. The dispute may be local, but it comes in the middle of a national debate over the private use of drones in the US.
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Hovering like mechanical sparrows over a windswept Maryland field on a bright Saturday afternoon, small drones seem harmless -- but they are at the center of an ardent dogfight over US regulations.Every few weeks, members of the 800-strong DC Area Dron...
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A report based on leaked documents from Edward Snowden alleges that the NSA uses collected metadata to determine the target of drone strikes, rather than human intelligence.
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Washington -
Mike Rogers (R – Mich.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, stated Tuesday that drone limits put American “lives at risk.”
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Nashua -
Nashua, NH, is using a video featuring aerial views to promote the community. The problem is that it was shot by a company using a civilian drone without a special certificate from the Federal Aviation Authority, and that’s not legal.
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Naperville -
Legal or not, real estate brokers are using small drones to sell multi-million dollar homes, according to several media reports. In some cases, tiny drones fly inside the mansions to film the interiors.
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Human lifeguards may become a thing of the past, as scientists have developed and successfuly tested a drone capable of saving drowning victims at sea.
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Tokyo -
Japan and China tensions over East China Sea islands, that both countries claim to own, continue to increase resulting in Japan deciding to increase its defence budget.
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In the 21st century we have become used to reports of death and destruction by drones but finally it seems the technology could be put to good use as a delivery system.
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The world mourns the death of South African hero Nelson Mandela. Amazon attracts media attentions for its "drone" announcement. What's at the heart of America's Walmart protests? Welcome to this week's TopFinds.
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Researchers at NYU have developed a jellyfish-like drone prototype based on a simple, four-winged design that can flap 20 times per second. Mimicking the swimming motion of jellyfish, the robot is capable of stable flight at a relatively small scale.
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Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO and founder, tells 60 Minutes that automated unmanned drones could be the future of product delivery for the company. In order to trim delivery costs and help keep the planet "green," drone delivery may be the way of the future.
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Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a cloud, it's a UFO or it may be just a drone. The increased use of drones by both military and the private sector have led to an increase in the number of reported UFO sightings.
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Five Catholic Worker activists have been acquitted of blocking the gate of a New York air base where US unmanned aerial drones are remotely operated.
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U.S. drone in action U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson
A weaponised drone. U.S. Airforce
Tsavo National Park is a vast plain, with few water holes. Kenya Citizen TV-YouTube
CyPhy Works' new Pocket Flyer drone CyPhy Works, Inc.
A U.S. Air Force RQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle in operation. DoD photo
A U.S. Air Force RQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle in operation. DoD photo
Drones are being used by DHS to monitor drug trafficking, illegal immigration and other criminal activity along the U.S.-Mexican border. There are also plans by federal officials to use drones to patrol the skies at and near U.S. airports as an anti-terrorism protective measure Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA(
Drone in storm. Truthout.org/flickr
A U.S. Air Force RQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle in operation. DoD photo
DJI Phantom Aerial Quadcopter: The maximum horizontal flight speed of the Phantom can reach 10m/s and the maximum vertical speed is 6 m/s DSLRPros / DJI
DJI Phantom Aerial Quadcopter: The maximum horizontal flight speed of the Phantom can reach 10m/s and the maximum vertical speed is 6 m/s DSLRPros / DJI
Medea Benjamin, David Swanson, and Cindy Sheehan speak in San Francisco in November 2012 about the drones wars
Elephant killed By poachers, Voi area, Kenya.
26 February 2010 Ina96
Supporters of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa Islamic organization hold placards and party flags as they shout slogans during a protest against U.S. drone attacks. The banner in Urdu reads, "Barbaric drone attacks on innocent tribal people is blatant state terrorism by America" With permission by Reuters / Fayaz Aziz
Customs and Border Protection Agency said data collected by drones could be shared with other government agencies U.S. Customs and Border Patrol
Drone strikes in Pakistan America Abroad/Tumblr
CBP Air and Marine Predator Bs on the flightline for border protection duties DHS
Supporters of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa Islamic organization hold placards and party flags as they shout slogans during a protest against U.S. drone attacks. The banner in Urdu reads, "Barbaric drone attacks on innocent tribal people is blatant state terrorism by America" With permission by Reuters / Fayaz Aziz
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