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Now There's A Drone That You Can Control Using Oculus Rift
At a special event in San Francisco on Thursday, Parrot, the company that makes hobbyist drones, showed off the latest in its arsenal of flying vehicles, the Bebop.Parrot CEO Henri Seydoux demoed the...
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No One Seems To Know Who Was Operating A Drone That Nearly Collided With A...
The Federal Aviation Administration investigated an incident last month involving a drone that nearly collided with a commercial airliner in U.S. airspace, but wasn’t able to identify who was flying...
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There's Been Another Deadly Drone Strike Against The Taliban Along The...
A U.S. drone strike near the Pakistan-Afghan border has killed up to 10 suspected militants and wounded 14 others. Nasir Khan, the assistant political agent of the Bara subdistrict in Pakistan's Khyber...
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DRONES: Commercial Drones Are Becoming A Reality, With Huge Impacts For Many...
While drones are unlikely to become a part of our daily lives in the immediate future, they will soon begin taking on much larger roles for businesses and some individual consumers, from delivering...
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A Bizarre Near-Miss Between A Drone And A Passenger Plane Is Shrouded In Mystery
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still doesn't know the identity of a pilot of a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that nearly collided with a commercial flight over Tallahassee, Florida, on...
View ArticleA Fancy New Hotel In The Bay Area Is Delivering Champagne To Its Guests By Drone
If you've ever wished you could have a bit of bubbly delivered to you by a flying robot, perhaps a stay at the just-opened Casa Madrona Hotel & Spa would be a good fit for you. The hotel, which...
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Rand Paul Is Plotting A Sequel To His Epic Filibuster
Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, is planning a follow-up to the historic talking filibuster he staged last year over the Obama administration's drone policy. However, 0thanks to new Senate...
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Renegade Drone Pilots Just Flew Over The World's Tallest Building And Filmed...
Team Black Sheep, an R/C hobbyist group noted for various drone-related stunts (we especially like the video of their tearing up the skies of New York City), has released its latest video.This time...
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The Sequel To Rand Paul's Epic Filibuster Is Happening Tomorrow
On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, will filibuster President Barack Obama's nomination of David Barron to fill a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Paul...
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US To Finally Disclose The Legal Justification Behind Drone Strikes On Americans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will disclose its legal justification for the use of drones against U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism, a senior Obama administration official said on...
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Obama Administration Will Release Secret Memo Justifying Drone Strikes On...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration signaled Tuesday that it will publicly reveal a secret memo describing its legal justification for using drones to kill U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism...
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DARPA Unveils A Hack-Proof Drone
The Pentagon’s research arm unveiled a new drone built with secure software that prevents the control and navigation of the aircraft from being hacked.The program, called High Assurance Cyber Military...
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Restaurant In India Successfully Delivers Pizza By Drone
Mumbai, a city known for its traffic woes, has become the first city in India to use an unmanned drone to deliver pizza."All of us had read about Amazon's plans of using drones. We successfully carried...
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Martha Stewart Loves Flying Her Fancy Drone All Over Her Farm
Martha Stewart has a drone, and she absolutely loves it.In Vanity Fair, Stewart delights in talking about her drone — a fancy "AR 2.0" model by a French company called Parrot — which she only flies...
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Here's What Those 80 US Troops Are Probably Doing In Chad
On Wednesday, Barack Obama informed Congress that he was dispatching 80 troops to Chad to aid in the search for over 200 girls that the Nigerian Jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped from a primary...
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Watch An Enormous US Surveillance Drone Arrive In Japan
On May 4, the U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk remotely piloted system arrived at Misawa Air Base, Japan, where it is scheduled to operate from May to October 2014.The huge Northrop Grumman UAS...
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Obama Says He'll Continue To Conduct 'Necessary' Drone Strikes
In a foreign policy speech Wednesday, President Barack Obama reaffirmed his plans to use controversial drone strikes overseas "when necessary." "[I]n taking direct action, we must uphold standards that...
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Now High Rollers In Las Vegas Can Have Their Champagne Delivered By Drone
High rollers in Las Vegas can now have their bottle service delivered via drone.The new service started over Memorial Day Weekend at Marquee Dayclub at The Cosmopolitan. In club co-owner Jason Strauss’...
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I Got A Rare Look Inside The Air Force's Drone Pilot Training
Learning how to drop bombs and fire Hellfire missiles is more like sitting in a regular college classroom than you might expect. There are hundreds of pages of text to digest, continual testing of...
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This Smartphone-Controlled Paper Toy Drone Is About To Hit The Masses
A modern middle school engineering marvel, the paper airplane is taking a giant leap forward thanks to a million-dollar Kickstarter campaign.The PowerUp 3.0, a device that lets you pilot a paper...
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