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Thursday 21 January 2021
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.
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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch supporter of drone use, has openly cited a number that exceeds some independent estimates of the total death toll.
A new documentary has revealed the world’s most powerful camera.
A NATIONAL VOLUNTARY collection for survivors of mother and baby homes has been suggested by independent senator Rónán Mullen.
The government is drawing up a redress scheme for survivors on foot of the publication of the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation last week.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that religious organisations should “make a contribution” towards this scheme.
Speaking in the Seanad yesterday, Mullen said the country should consider “whether it would be appropriate to have some kind of National Voluntary Contribution as part of a redress package to reflect the social and community dimension to this story, along with Church and State contributions”.
“We are all connected with families who are in some way a part of this story,” he added.
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