Drones

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held talks Monday with leaders in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates about countering the military threat from Iran by building a broad, global coalition that includes Asian and Eur…

NEW YORK Craving a Slurpee from but lacking the motivation to get off a park bench? No worries. 7-Eleven launched a delivery service Monday that will send a Slurpee or almost anything else carried by the chain to public places ranging from parks to beaches.…

With increased pressure on Chinese manufacturers like Huawei and ZTE, Shenzhen-based drone giant DJI has no doubt had cause for concern of late. In late-2017, the U.S. governments Immigration and Customs Enforcement office raised concern that the companys cam…

Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Zurich equipped a drone with event cameras and a sonar system to make it capable of detecting and dodging objects thrown at it. This technology could help drones and birds safely co-exist in the …

Mark Episkopos Security, Or could the new jet compliment the F-35? Take a look.  See Ya Later, F-35: Britain's 6th Generation Fighter Is In the Works As the EU consolidates its sixth-generation aircraft efforts around the Franco-German FCAS project, Brit…

Listening to grey seals recite vowel sounds and sing the melodies to Star Wars and Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star makes for excellent entertainment, but for the researchers who trained these aquatic mammals, its serious science. Animals make all sorts of wac…

Warning: Mild spoilers for Child's Play (2019) below. It may seem strange that a horror movie about a killer doll is better primed to terrify Big Tech execs than kids and parents but in Child's Play 2019, that's exactly what Chucky is after.  Forgoing the f…

Its become abundantly clear that Amazon is interested in incorporating surveillance into many of its products and servicesthrough the internet, in our homes, and from the sky. Last month at Amazons annual shareholder meeting, investors pressured the company…

President Donald Trump said Thursday that it would have made a “big, big difference” if the drone shot down by Iran had been manned. Such a big difference — because drones are never manned. A drone by definition is an unpiloted aircraft. The technical term f…

(Reuters) - Iran on Thursday shot down a U.S. military drone it said was on a spy mission over its territory. Washington said the aircraft was targeted in international air space in “an unprovoked attack.” The Global Hawk drone, made by Northrop Grumman Cor…