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Gizmodo UK A Record-Breaking Drone Show Ended With Quadcopters Falling From the Sky Gizmodo UK To qualify for the record, each drone must be of the quadcopter variety, and all must remain airborne for at least one minute (with faulty drones deducted from the final count). The drones, equipped...

Drones to the rescue! BBC News Drones may be best known for taking impressive aerial videos and inspecting buildings, infrastructure and crops, but they also promise to improve mobile and internet connectivity for emergency services and consumers. Poor mobile signal in rural areas ... and more...

How drone racing strikes exciting balance between real, virtual worlds Chicago Daily Herald Racers can get involved with the sport by buying a kit for between $150 and $400, Sandoval said. The typical kit includes the drone itself -- often called a "quad," which is short for quadcopter, meaning...

Oneindia Meet India's 'youngest drone developer', Aryaman, who's vying to enter Guinness World Records Oneindia Chandigarh, April 14: It was a proud moment for 13-year-old Aryaman Verma from Ludhiana, Punjab, who has been honoured with the title of "youngest drone developer" by the India Book of...

TechCrunch DroneShield is keeping hostile UAVs away from NASCAR events TechCrunch If you were hoping to get some sweet drone footage of a NASCAR race in progress, you may find your quadcopter grounded unceremoniously by a mysterious force: DroneShield is bringing its anti-drone tech to NASCAR...

Digital Trends Airbus has a good reason for letting a drone close to its aircraft Digital Trends Designed for use inside a hangar away from the elements, the custom-built quadcopter uses a laser-based obstacle detection and anti-collision system to ensure it never gets too close to the parked...

Forbes Set It and Forget It With This Autonomous Drone Forbes DJI's Mavic Pro quadcopter drone can be just the answer. This tiny, nimble camera drone boasts a 4.3 mile range, a 4K video and still shot camera, and even a foldable body for easy storage — but it's the autonomy of the drone that...

Evening Standard Drones-selling website 'left details of police and army customers online' Evening Standard “This information should be stored in a database and most certainly should not be available to the internet and stored in plain text.” There was no response to a phone call or an email...

Marine Corps Times The Pentagon is asking for 3 times as many drones for 2019 Marine Corps Times Quadcopters show up in every service except the Air Force, as well as Special Operations Command and the generic overall Pentagon budget. There's $140,000 to buy 100 quadcopters for CTEF, or the...

DroneLife (blog) California Police Department is Gunning for Rogue Drones DroneLife (blog) “Shutting down the operations for an hour can be critical to saving lives,” Doyle added. “We started looking for options in case it happened again.” In March, the Queensland Police Service used a similar...

Daily Mail Latvian startup unveils giant drone that can fight fires, clean wind turbines, and carry PEOPLE to safety from ... Daily Mail Scroll down for videos. A Latvian startup has developed a super-sized drone that can perform search and rescue. +6. A Latvian startup has developed a...

Chicago Tribune Drone racing track proposed for Naperville tech hub as enthusiasts dream of permanent place to train, compete Chicago Tribune Just as high schools compete in Vex Robotics and FIRST Robotic tournaments, Luckinbill sees drone racing becoming a popular school-related activity that...

Hackaday Zip Tie Quadcopter Frame is as Cheap as They Come Hackaday We've seen some cheap quadcopter builds over the years, but this one takes the cake. After seeing somebody post a joke about building a quadcopter frame out of zip ties and hot glue, [IronMew] decided to try it for real. The...

EurekAlert (press release) Scientists use satellites and drones to discover antarctic penguin 'super-colonies' EurekAlert (press release) Using multiple simultaneous counts on the ground, quadcopter-based aerial photography and high-resolution satellite imagery they found that the Danger Islands...

Stanford University News Stanford undergraduates learn to make delivery drones Stanford University News The lab portion of the course focused on testing the delivery mechanism but also required the students to learn how to build, program and fly quadcopter drones. Each team needed one pilot, who...

Business Insider Dolce & Gabbana is using drones to model its handbags at Milan Fashion Week Business Insider dolce and gabbana drone handbag model Drones carry bags from Dolce & Gabbana's Autumn/Winter 2018 women's collection at Milan Fashion Week. Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters. Dolce & Gabbana...

Popular Mechanics Leaked DJI Drone Has a Huge Wingspan and Long Battery Life Popular Mechanics Chinese company DJI is a juggernaut of commercial drones, with an astonishing 85 of the global consumer market. Now, according to leaked reports, the company is looking at agricultural and industrial...

Drone DJ Samsung patents “Flying Display Device”, a drone that you can control with your eyes and voice Drone DJ As drones are becoming increasingly more popular, we see more companies filing patents for innovative unmanned aerial vehicles. In the past, we reported on LG electronics and Amazon...

Digital Trends Watch a drone lose control and crash onto Apple Park's solar roof Digital Trends Roberts obliged, taking his own drone on a flight over the campus, this time on the hunt for another quadcopter rather than dramatic footage of the remarkable donut-shaped building that forms the...

Stars and Stripes Marines acquire hundreds of quadcopter drones for infantry squads Stars and Stripes Eight hundred quadcopter drones will soon hover over Marine Corps infantry squads, giving them new high-tech tools to survey the battlefield. Lt. Gen. Robert Walsh, who leads Marine Corps Combat...