Drones

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Welcome to Chula Vista, where police drones respond to 911 calls In the skies above Chula Vista, California, where the police department runs a drone program 10 hours…

In the skies above Chula Vista, California, where the police department runs a drone program 10 hours a day, seven days a week from four launch sites, it’s not uncommon to see an unmanned aerial vehicle darting across the sky. For officers on the force, tapping into this aerial reconnaissance…

Its Drone WAUWATOSA, Wis. - Feb. 26, 2023 - PRLog -- Drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) were initially used as military devices. Still, their use in commercial applications has grown over the past five years. As a result, the drone industry expects to grow at 15.37% CAGR over the…

Best Buy Canada’s latest batch of Top Deals is live now with significant discounts on soundbars, earbuds, gaming PCs, smart TVs and more. The sale starts today, Friday, February 24th and ends next Thursday, March 2nd. Check out some of the offers from the sale below: Sony BRAVIA XR 55-inch…

You have one week to claim Duskers for keepsies "A better Alien game than any official Alien game" is how our Brendy described 2016's Duskers, the latest game that's going free for keepsies on the Epic Games Store. Duskers is a roguelikelike sci-fi horror survival game about salvaging supplies from…

A raft of research, supported by startup developments, suggests drones inspired by nature are the future of flight. Plans for the future of airborne transport include seeing a small army of drones competing for space in the sky with the 50 billion birds worldwide. But there’s also the potential of…

FILE - Airmen with the 436th Aerial Port Squadron use a forklift to move 155 mm shells ultimately bound for Ukraine, April 29, 2022, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. The Pentagon announced a new package of long-term security assistance for Ukraine on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, marking the one-year…

Prostock-Studio/Getty ImagesOpenAI's ChatGPT isn't just good at generating coherent text responses to natural language prompts -- it can also play a role in human-to-robot interactions and use sensor feedback to write code for robot actions.  Microsoft recently conducted research to "see if ChatGPT can think beyond text, and reason about…

Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan has said the Government is looking at the mechanisms of how to police and take down drones that are causing disruption at Dublin Airport. Flights at the airport were suspended for a time yesterday evening due to drone activity in the area. They were suspended…

Choppers to help arrest crime By Nomazima Nkosi and Noxolo Sibiya - 21 February 2023 - 07:30 Drones, helicopters and panic buttons – these were some of the bold promises made by premier Panyaza Lesufi yesterday in his speech waging war against Gauteng thugs.  Lesufi, who delivered his maiden state…