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Thursday 1 December 2022
Primates not putting up with your sh*t – this chimp.
The social media giant has laid out three core priorities for the company over the coming years.
Nigel Wilson failed to get permission for his flights.
Police are struggling to solve the mystery.
Novelty may give way to concerns over annoyance, nuisance, privacy, trespass and safety.
Or, you know, in three years.
And it’s expected that nearly half of the world’s population will have online access by 2018.
Military designers want to build and aircraft carrier in the sky.
Jay Bregman left his role as co-CEO of Hailo to start focusing on robotics and drones
This drone gives us a never-before-seen look at Mexico City Airport.
The company is looking for permission to test out drones in New Mexico for 180 days as it tries to bring internet access to the world.
The control system will be entirely automated, and will be first used for agriculture next year.
Disaster Tech Lab uses drone mounted sensors to search for survivors using WiFi signals.
So far, it has successfully delivered a number of items to farmers in the Australian outback, but the project is “years away” from becoming official.
US warplanes bombed Islamic State positions in northern Iraq yesterday.
Company says permission to carry out drone tests would be “in the public interest”.
The US says that drones are purely to protect their military advisers.
For one, you should refer to them as unmanned aircrafts from here on in.
The President would not need Congressional approval regardless of his decision.
US and Australian embassies and the United Nations have started evacuating staff.
Unsurprisingly, campaigners are worried that robots that can kill people might be a bad idea.
Officials have confirmed that at least three civilians have been killed in the strikes.
Facebook was in talks to buy the solar-powered drone company earlier this year, but Google has acquired them to help with its own internet initiative, Project Loon.
Both solar-powered aircraft drone and low-Earth orbit satellites will be used to beam internet access down to people in remote regions in the world.
The social media site is reportedly in talks to buy Titan Aerospace, a company which specialises in creating unmanned aircraft drones.
The drone ships would be remotely controlled using a virtual-reality recreation of a vessel’s bridge, which captains on dry land could use to control crewless ships.
Machine autonomy has long been a staple of science fiction – but that may be coming to an end with plans to use drones for domestic delivery, writes David Gunkel.
The weapons were shipped on the back of increased Al-Qaeda violence.
Images posted online showed a sleek grey delta-wing aircraft apparently powered by a jet engine and resembling an American combat drone.
Amnesty International says that the US has failed to live up to its promise of openness with Pakistani villagers leaving in constant fear.
The spy craft are not just being used in war and military surveillance – in Peru, they are studying ancient ruins.
Controversy over the United States’ use of drones has grown along with the body count, writes Scott Fitzsimmons and Karina Sangha – who say while drone operators are at minimal risk of suffering physical harm, they risk psychological damage.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland have said that not a single public order arrest has been made so far with the start of the G8 summit in Fermanagh less than 24 hours away.
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
A new retail banking review has said the Government should preemptively legislate to ensure that cash continues to be accepted by certain sectors and businesses.
The review found that in Ireland, consumers are already being impacted by some businesses refusing to accept cash. These challenges range from minor issues such as the inability to purchase a coffee in a café, to being unable to seek insurance from some companies that do not accept cash.
Currently, Euro notes and coins have the status of legal tender in Ireland, meaning that retail transactions are governed by contract law. In the context of this, where a business places no restrictions on the means of payment it is prepared to accept, it must accept legal tender when offered by a customer.
However, if a business specifies in advance of a transaction that payment must be in a form other than cash, the customer cannot subsequently claim a legal right to pay in cash, even if that cash is legal tender. This can be achieved, for example, by displaying signs at the cash till and at the store entrance.
So, today we want to know… Should businesses be legally obliged to take cash?
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
Employers will soon be required to pay their staff when too sick to work.
Polina Bashkina speaks to older Ukrainian people left to cope on the front lines of this war.
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