Drones

"May the 4th be with you." "These are the deals you're looking for." "I don't know...buy casual." OK, now that we've got the obligatory puns out of the way, let's get right to it. May 4 has evolved into a semi-official Star Wars holiday, because "May th…

He displayed his art at the Los Angeles gallery a month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the start of an era of thus-far ceaseless war. He remembers the reaction. People were like, Oh my God, your work is so timely, he said. I was talking about the Gulf …

This video apparently was shot from a drone immediately above a jet landing at Las Vegas's airport. Video from KLAS TV/LasVegasNow.com; screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET If you're worried somebody's drone will get sucked into the engine of your jet as yo…

The call for help came from half a world away to a windowless room at a remote airbase in South Dakota. An American military advisor was calling from eastern Syria, asking the team at Ellsworth Air Force Base to deploy a drone to hunt down a small group of I…

New drone designs enable small UAVs to conserve battery life by taking breaks in unusual locations as opposed to landing back on the ground. For example, engineers from Yale University and their colleagues demonstrated novel landing gear for drones to perch l…

Drone transports medical samples at hospital campus

A selection of photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere this week: Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian children react to holy water being sprayed on them by a priest on Palm Sunday. Image copyrightGetty …

Sri Lanka has banned drones and is detonating suspicious items around its capital city in the aftermath of a series of deadly bombings on Easter Sunday that killed at least 359 people. In a statement, Sri Lanka's civil aviation authority said it was bannin…

Sri Lankas civil aviation authority said Thursday that it was banning the use of drones because of continuing security concerns. Investigators continued to examine what role the extremist group ISIS played in the deadly Easter Sunday attacks, which also inju…

Zipline, the San Francisco-based UAV manufacturer and logistics services provider, has launched a program in Ghana today for drone delivery of medical supplies. Working with the Ghanaian government, Zipline will operate 30 drones out of four distribution cen…