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Barb Darrow Mar 9, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Another type of airmail

MIT wishes it could deliver acceptance letters via drone

MIT wants prospective students to know that it’s fully aboard the drone bandwagon, parlaying an army of delivery drones (and computer-generated imagery) for…

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Technology
David Meyer Mar 5, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Track and trace

Personal drone registration will become necessary, U.K. Lords say

A U.K House of Lords committee has recommended that, in the long term, people operating drones for leisure may need to register…

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Europe, Science & Energy, Technology
Jeff Roberts Feb 20, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- News from Niagara

Check out this drone video of a frozen Niagara Falls

How cold is it? So cold that most of Niagara Falls has frozen over – and NBC News has the footage to prove…

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Technology
Jeff Roberts Feb 15, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Not-so-special delivery

FAA plan would bar delivery by drone, “micro drone” rule possible

The troubled skies over the U.S. drone industry cleared a bit on Sunday, as the Federal Aviation Administration proposed a new plan to…

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Science & Energy, Technology
Jeff Roberts Jan 29, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Don't buzz Brady

Super Bowl will have 30-mile “no drone zone”

Buzzing quarterback Tom Brady with an unmanned aircraft might sound like fun, but anyone who flies a drone remotely near the University of Phoenix stadium, where…

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Technology
Jeff Roberts Jan 26, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- We have an intruder

Drone on White House lawn leads to lockdown

A small drone landed on White House grounds late Sunday night, leading to emergency vehicles swarming the area, and the perimeter being…

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Technology
Jeff Roberts Jan 22, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Drone case is a draw

Drone pilot and FAA settle for $1,100 in key commercial use case

Raphael Pirker, who is probably the world’s most famous drone pilot, has reached a deal with the Federal Aviation Agency, which had sought to…

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Technology
Signe Brewster Jan 20, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Oops

DJI fixes bug that caused Inspire 1 drone crashes

DJI has issued a firmware update to owners of the brand new Inspire 1, a drone that caught the industry’s attention last…

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Science & Energy
David Meyer Jan 20, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- OS for drones and home hubs

Robots embrace Ubuntu as it invades the internet of things

Canonical has revealed what I reckon is its biggest announcement in years: Ubuntu is about to invade the internet of things with…

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Europe, Science & Energy, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Jan 19, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- A new internet 750 miles up

Elon Musk’s satellite plan: Project Loon without helium or latency

Elon Musk dropped a bomb from near-earth orbit on Friday at an event in Seattle: Instead of working with mini-satellite startup OneWeb…

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Technology
Carmel DeAmicis Jan 19, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- It's going the Google way

Here’s what Facebook wants to do with 1,200 more employees

Facebook is growing its head count by as much as 14 percent according to a new Reuters report. It has 1,200 open job listings on…

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Work & Collaboration
Jeff Roberts Jan 15, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- It all makes sense

Pilot pressure explains FAA’s indecisiveness on drones

Drone policy in the U.S. is a mess: the Federal Aviation Administration is currently grounding commercial use of unmanned aircraft while letting any amateur imbecile — like…

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Technology
Signe Brewster Jan 15, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Takeoff

Skydio raises $3M to build software for safer, smarter drones

Skydio came out of stealth today with plans to build a smarter navigation system for drones, plus a $3 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz…

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Science & Energy
Signe Brewster Jan 12, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- And that's the way it is

CNN to study newsroom drone use for the FAA

The Federal Aviation Administration has not been kind to businesses hoping to legally operate drones, but it is slowly allowing their use by…

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Science & Energy, Work & Collaboration
Signe Brewster Jan 9, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Leave it to the robots

Obstacle avoidance is the next big step for drones

Consumer drones have come a long way in just a few years, evolving from complex hobbyist models to consumer-ready quadcopters with increasingly smart…

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Science & Energy
Jeff Roberts Dec 31, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Mail in the mountains

Delivery by drone: French postal video shows it can be done

Amazon and Google may have some catching up to do. It turns out the mail service of France, La Poste, has already successfully field-tested a…

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Europe, Science & Energy, Technology
Signe Brewster Dec 25, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Eyes in the sky

Iris+ review: A feature-rich drone that’s still simple to fly

I’m an anxious drone flyer. Even in San Francisco’s biggest fields, there are always other people and buildings that make me constantly evaluate…

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Science & Energy
Signe Brewster Dec 11, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Fly my pretties

For the drone fleet conductor comes PixiePath

Companies delivering packages or farms mapping acres and acres of fields might not want to stop at one drone. A fleet can…

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Science & Energy
Barb Darrow Dec 9, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Drone vs. photog

Mistletoe-bearing restaurant drone draws blood

Last month we wondered about what could possibly go wrong with TGI Friday’s plan to fly mistletoe-bearing drones over customers in some  restaurants.…

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Technology
Jeff Roberts Dec 2, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- All's well at Amazon!

Amazon’s Bezos thinks ebooks made the book industry healthier

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos talked Tuesday of the company's drone plans, its campus culture and its indifference to pain of short-term shareholders.…

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Media, Technology
Jeff Roberts Nov 28, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Ambulance drone can help heart attack victims in under 2 minutes

An amazing video shows how ambulance drones could be a game changer in medical emergencies.…

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Science & Energy, Technology
Kif Leswing Nov 26, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Report: GoPro planning to launch consumer drones “late next year”

GoPro, the leading camcorder company, is preparing multi-rotor drones that cost between $500 and $1000 for a late 2015 launch, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.…

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Mobile, Science & Energy, Technology
Jeff Roberts Nov 24, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Drone entrepreneurs face “colossal mess” under planned FAA law

The FAA's long-awaited rules for drones are finally ready, and they spell bad news for the many businesses and organizations that had hoped the agency would give up its hard-line approach to unmanned aircraft.…

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Technology
Barb Darrow Nov 20, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Mistletoe drones over your table: What could possibly go wrong?

A UK-based chain is testing the use of drones in its restaurants to promote, um, holiday cheer.…

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Europe, Science & Energy, Technology

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