Drones

This week, we talked to Edward Snowden about his years in exileand reviewed Permanent Record, his new book about the same. And that's just for starters! The Air Force has made it official: It's bringing a satellite to the Defcon hacking conference next year …

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Media captionAbqaiq was struck in the early hours of Saturday morning The US has announced plans to send forces to Saudi Arabia in the wake of attacks against the country's oil infrastructure. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told reporters the deployment wo…

The FAA has warned against equipping your drone with weapons such as flamethrowers and handguns. But can a nail gun really be considered a weapon that is, outside of Quake? Let’s hope not, because roboticists at the University of Michigan have made a roofing …

BAQAIQ, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - When 18 drones slammed into the world’s biggest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia last Saturday, the roughly hundred workers on weekend night shift leapt into action to confront the blazes that had erupted. In the pre-…

Media captionTake a look at how much damage the attacks did to the Khurais facility in Saudi Arabia A week on, it's still not known who launched the attack on two Saudi oil facilities and from which direction, but the damage is plain to see. Saudi Arabia and…

KHURAIS, Saudi Arabia(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia’s newly appointed energy minister was in London when he learned in the middle of the night of the largest-ever attack on the kingdom’s oil infrastructure. Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, a veteran oil official and …

Drones — specifically quadcopters — are a versatile bunch. They’ve been used to inspect gas terminals, oil rigs, and turbines for wear and tear by startups like Sterblue, Clobotics, General Electric spinoff Avitas Systems, and Cyberhawk. French firefighters t…

Here come the drones and they are dangerous. Yemens Houthi fighters last weekend claimed they were responsible for a crippling blow to Saudi Arabian oil production using drones and cruise missiles. The combination of the two confused and overwhelmed Saudi an…

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last weekend’s drone attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities were an “act of war” carried out by Iran. “This was an Iranian attack,” Pompeo told reporters on Wednesday while traveling to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to talk …