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Seeing Burning Man Through A Drone Is The Best Way Short Of Being There
Both drones and Burning Man provide a fresh ability to see the world.But the magic of Burning Man lies in the experience and interaction, which cannot quite be captured in photos or videos.That's why...
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We Seriously Need To Stop Calling Them All 'Drones'
They deliver sushi. They film cool videos. They capture the world's greatest hippie festivals. They even perform search and rescue missions that would otherwise be completed by a St. Bernard with a...
View ArticleWatch How The Air Force Turns This F-16 Into A Drone [Video]
A video from Boeing shows the development of a little-known frontier of the drone arms race — an unmanned F-16 fighter jet. The development is an important step in drone warfare because it allows...
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Turning F-16s Into Drones Just To Shoot Them Down Makes A Lot Of Sense
Yesterday, we reported on the successful test flight of a converted F-16 Falcon into a drone on a Florida Air Force Base last week. Some in the comments remarked that is was a waste of government...
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UK Detainment Of Activist Fits Right In With CIA's Drone PR War
It is hardly surprising that Yemen's most vocal activist, Baraa Shiban, was detained and interrogated at a U.K. airport, given the explicit public relations battle over drones being waged by the...
View ArticleThis VC Is Pumping MIllions Of Dollars Into Drone, Bitcoin, And 3D Printing...
Chris Dixon's career is the one you want.First he founded a startup called Site Advisor. He sold it to McAfee for millions of dollars.Then he cofounded Hunch, which he sold to eBay for millions and...
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The NSA Has A Much Bigger Role In Drone Strikes Than We've Realized
The National Security Agency has a much deeper role in the CIA's drone program in Pakistan, with new documents leaked by Edward Snowden showing a much more sophisticated and efficient targeted killing...
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The Legality Of US Drone Strikes Hinges On One Key Distinction
There's been a lot of hubbub today about separate reports released today from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch covering the use of armed U.S. drones to target extremist militants.The...
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Duct Tape Is Essential For Iran's Suicide Drones [VIDEO]
Towards the end of September, the Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Force Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan announced that Tehran managed to develop and produce a new type of drone, dubbed...
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'Voyeuristic Intimacy' May Be Why Drone Pilots Get PTSD
Drone pilot life isn't just lampooned as not real combat, it's so mind-numblingly mundane that "One bored pilot even calculated the number of farts each cockpit seat was likely to have absorbed," wrote...
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CIA Documents Detail Pakistan's Secret Endorsement Of Drone Strikes
The U.S. routinely briefs Pakistan officials in secret on drone strikes in the country, according to a Washington Post report from Bob Woodward and Greg Miller out Wednesday evening.The report details...
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Iraq Says It Needs Drones And F-16 Jets To Fight Al-Qaeda
The Baghdad government wants the immediate delivery of U.S. drones and F-16 fighter jets in order to combat al Qaeda insurgents, who are making swift advances in the west of the Iraq, a senior Iraqi...
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Iconic Matterhorn Mountain Mapped In Impeccable Detail By Drones
The Matterhorn mountain in the Pennine Alps was photographed by drones in order to create landmark surveying of the region. Drone Adventures, a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, led the...
View ArticleFlying A Drone With Google Glass Looks Amazingly Fun
I haven't had the chance to play around much with Google Glass, but for the brief period I did have the internet-attached glasses on I was pretty underwhelmed. Not only is the experience of seeing the...
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Leader Of The Pakistani Taliban Killed In A US Drone Strike
The man in charge of the Taliban in Pakistan has been killed by an American drone strike, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. U.S. hellfire missiles targetedHakimullah Mehsud's vehicle in the...
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Last Year President Obama Reportedly Told His Aides That He's 'Really Good At...
This will not go over well for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner.According to the new book “Double Down,” in which journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann chronicle the 2012 presidential election,...
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New Chinese 'Joined-Wing' Drone Emerges
It shows a similarity with the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk type of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) even if it seems much smaller than the High Altitude Long Endurange (HALE) kind of drone. This...
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There's Still A Lot We Don't Know About Obama's Targeted Killing Program
Nearly six months ago, President Obama promised more transparency and tighter policies around targeted killings.In a speech, Obama vowed that the U.S. would only use force against a "continuing and...
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FAA Unveils New Plan For Allowing Drones Into US Airspace
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday released an initial plan for integrating unmanned aircraft more broadly into U.S. airspace by September 2015, along with a privacy...
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The New Head Of The Pakistani Taliban Is The Man Who Ordered The...
Last week, the United States successfully targeted and killed Hakimullah Mehsud, the chief of the Taliban in Pakistan, in a drone strike in Waziristan. Today, they named his replacement — Mullah...
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