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NYPD surveillance drone will fly above Times Square on New Year’s Eve

sudshr47 December 31, 2018

It’s a bird, it’s a plane — it’s a…surveillance drone?

For the first time in history, the New York Police Department will fly a drone over Times Square to monitor the crowd during the annual New Year’s Eve celebration. The drone will surveil the event alongside more than 1,200 cameras in order to assist around 7,000 police officers who will be on duty, according to the Associated Press.

The remote-controlled quadcopter will never fly directly over the crowd and will be tied to a building in an enclosed area as a safety precaution.

The NYPD will also be deploying technology that prevents unauthorized drone usage during the New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square. Read more…

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Still at large: Drones responsible for shutting down one of the UK’s busiest airports

sudshr47 December 24, 2018

After a drone-induced shutdown, London’s Gatwick Airport is back up and running again.
Still at large, however, are the drones which caused around 1,000 flights to be diverted or cancelled over three days late last week, with Sussex Police investigat…

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Drone sightings are causing total chaos at one of the UK’s busiest airports

sudshr47 December 20, 2018

Holiday season is peak time for drone enthusiasts.

Kids are off school, people are treating themselves to new toys, and all across the country amateur flyers will be keenly testing out their newly-acquired gifts.

Apparently it’s not such a great time for airports, though. On Thursday morning, London’s Gatwick Airport — one of the busiest in the UK — announced that all inbound and outbound flights are suspended following reports of two drones flying near the airport on Wednesday night.

As of 08:15am, everything was still in lockdown. Read more…

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This drone was built to detect and take down ‘rogue’ drones

sudshr47 December 19, 2018

These days drones are everywhere, and so is the risk of bad actors using them to execute terrorist attacks, spying operations, and other illicit activities. For that reason, Fortem Technologies has built DroneHunter, a large drone that fires a massiv…

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This drone shrinks to fit

sudshr47 December 14, 2018

Researchers at the University of Zurich and EPFL have created a robot that shrinks to fit through gaps, a feature that could make it perfect for search and rescue missions. The researchers initially created a drone that could assess man-made gaps and squeeze through in seconds using only one camera. This extra feature — a […]

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Lift Aircraft’s Hexa may be your first multirotor drone ride

sudshr47 December 11, 2018 Startups

We were promised jetpacks, but let’s be honest, they’re just plain unsafe. So a nice drone ride is probably all we should reasonably expect. Lift Aircraft is the latest to make a play for the passenger multirotor market, theoretical as it is, and its craft is a sleek little thing with some interesting design choices to make it suitable for laypeople to “pilot.”

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These drones can open doors and let the rest of the swarm in

sudshr47 December 11, 2018

Researchers at Stanford University and EPFL have developed drones that can anchor themselves onto a surface and lift objects that are 40 times their own weight. The FlyCroTugs — aka flying, micro, tugging robots — use gecko-inspired adhesive to adhere to smooth surfaces and micro-spines that look like tiny fish hooks to latch onto rough surfaces. Read more…

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Critics call NYPD’s drone deployment ‘a serious threat to privacy’

sudshr47 December 8, 2018

Drones are coming to New York City, and that should worry you.
So argues the New York Civil Liberties Union, which in a Dec. 7 statement blasts the forthcoming NYPD deployment of the flying surveillance bots as “a serious threat to privacy.” Th…

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These Star Wars drones are on sale and might just make the perfect gift

sudshr47 December 5, 2018

If you have a diehard Star Wars fan in your life, chances are, they probably already own every piece of official merchandise there is. Lightsabers, action figures, R2D2, BB-8 droids, and Chewbacca plush toys — the whole shebang. Now you can easily pick out a random pair of socks with Boba Fett embroidered across the soles, but where’s the fun in that?

Since we’re currently in the season of giving, you can be extra generous this year and give them the best present in the galaxy. We’re talking about the Star Wars Collector’s Edition Propel Drones, which are now on sale at the Mashable Shop for $49.99. Read more…

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This drone is cleaning windows 1,100 feet above the ground, so humans don’t have to

sudshr47 November 30, 2018

Aerones is building heavy-lift drones for operations that can get dangerous when performed by humans. The company has recently unveiled footage of a drone solution for high-altitude window cleaning. In the future, similar drones could be used for fire…

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That night, a forest flew: DroneSeed is planting trees from the air

sudshr47 November 26, 2018 Startups

Wildfires are consuming our forests the institutions and technologies to keep these environments healthy have suffered decades of neglect. DroneSeed is a Seattle-based startup that aims to combat this problem with drones, artificial intelligence, and biological engineering. And it’s even more complicated than it sounds.

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First ever drone-delivered kidney is no worse for wear

sudshr47 November 20, 2018

Drone delivery really only seems practical for two things: take-out and organ transplants. Both are relatively light and also extremely time sensitive. Well, experiments in flying a kidney around Baltimore in a refrigerated box have yielded positive results — which also seems promising for getting your pad thai to you in good kit.