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Marlborough Express Teen drone pilot's racing career takes off Marlborough Express Cameron Woodley shows off his FPV quadcopter drone and the head-mounted goggles that give him a first-person view of the action. For thousands of years, people have looked to the sky and dreamed of flight. The...

Daily Star Cops launch DRONES to track criminals 24/7 amid lawless London crime wave Daily Star British Transport Police (BTP) are trialing the use of the camera-armed quadcopters to police the capital's transport network. BTP told Daily Star Online the drones will be available 24/7 to help...

The Atlantic America Is Not Ready for Exploding Drones The Atlantic In Iraq and Syria in particular, ISIS “figured out how to weaponize drones before we figured out how to counter them … Modern air defenses are built against planes and cruise missiles. A quadcopter is small, low, and slow. We...

The Verge The Army is buying microwave cannons to take down drones in mid-flight The Verge The weapon, which would be mounted to an airplane, would disable fixed-wing or quadcopter drones with a beam of focused radiation. Drone countermeasures are particularly relevant in the wake of an apparent...

The Local France Drone flies over Macron's holiday home in wake of Maduro 'attack' The Local France The world's commercial drone market has flourished in recent years, with widespread availability and falling prices. “Quadcopter” for example, drones that can be operated from a mile away and can...

Inverse How Insects Helped Teach Swiss Scientists to Build Better, Floppier Drones Inverse This week, engineers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland published the results of their efforts to make a really neat, flexible quadcopter drone in the journal Science...

WIRED How a Flock of Drones Developed Collective Intelligence WIRED Sure, those quadcopter fleets can number more than a thousand, but the movement and position of each unit is all programmed ahead of time. In contrast, each of these 30 drones is tracking its own position, its own velocity, and...

Air & Space Magazine Quadcopters Track Sharks from the Air Air & Space Magazine After getting reports from surfers of sharks in the vicinity of Seal Beach, California in 2015, chief lifeguard Joe Bailey became the first lifeguard on the West Coast to use drones for shark patrols. When he and his...

CBS 8 San Diego New drone program gives National City cops eyes in sky ... fox5sandiego.com The National City Police Department Thursday will roll out a drone program designed to give first responders a better view of emergencies from the sky. National City Police to implement "quadcopters" for...

Ynetnews IDF acquires device for quadcopter interception Ynetnews The IDF has recently acquired a new device that can intercept explosive quadcopters flown from the Gaza Strip into Israel—an ever-growing problem that requires an urgent solution, according to military officials. Follow Ynetnews...

Clarksville Leaf Chronicle Austin Peay State University zooms out drones for Governor's School Clarksville Leaf Chronicle Harpeth Hall senior Mohini Misra didn't account for the wind. As she tried to maneuver the Spark drone through a small obstacle course set up in front of Austin Peay State...

Australian fan detained for launching quadcopter on Red Square CanIndia News Moscow, June 20 (IANS) Moscow police on Wednesday detained an Australian football fan for trying to launch a quadcopter on Red Square, according to a source. “The policemen detained an Australian citizen who was...

Popular Mechanics Belarus Invents Tank-Killing Quadcopter Drone Popular Mechanics The armed forces of Belarus have demonstrated a new quadcopter drone that can carry a tank-killing rocket launcher. The drone carries a RPG-26 single-shot rocket that is remotely fired by the drone operator. And...

Digital Trends This bird-inspired morphing drone can slim down to fit through tight spaces Digital Trends The big tradeoff with quadcopter drones is that in order to make them as stable as possible, their fixed design makes it difficult for them to fit through tight spaces. This doesn't matter...

TechCrunch This sensor stops your quadcopter before it can cut you TechCrunch The folks at Spectrum have found a truly cool project for quadcopter pilots. It's a spinning sensor that will stop the rotors if your finger gets too close to the blades, thereby preventing you – or your kids – from...

Inverse Meet The Drone Racing League Pilot That Flew Over Active Kilauea Volcano Inverse Kocher will be weaving his quadcopter through a gauntlet of obstacles again, once the third season of the Drone Racing League (DRL) kicks off September 6, 2018 on ESPN. Until then he'll be touring the world...

Motherboard Pilot This Drone Made Out of Pizza Directly Into My Mouth Motherboard YouTubers deDrones, who previously raced drones through abandoned ships and crafted ghost drones, embarked on a cheesy challenge with their latest video: Make a flyable quadcopter out of pizza—sauce, cheese, and...

Android Central 5 great reasons to buy your first drone this summer Android Central The Hubsan X4 Quadcopter is a basic, palm-size drone that's a great option for beginners and kids. It features all the standard features you'd expect, including a 6-axis gyro system to help with flight stability...

Abacus Hong Kong's nano drone racers find space to fly in concrete jungle Abacus Roland Bernal's first encounter with drone racing was on YouTube. Intrigued by a video of fast-moving quadcopters zipping through the air at a race course in California, he instantly went to buy one for himself...

Inside the Arena Where Drones Battle a Wall of 1300 Computer Fans WIRED If you've ever taken a quadcopter out on a windy day, you know the struggle. Now consider that in the near future, our cities will be swarming with delivery drones—and if we don't want them plummeting out of the skies...