Despite world-wide concerns about unmanned aircraft buzzing around airports, suppliers of commercial drone-detection equipment generally have been looking elsewhere for sales. With aviation authorities in the U.S., U.K. and other countries urging a go-slow approach to deploying such systems until regulations are in place, industry officials say military facilities, correctional …
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NEW YORK — It’s an Auld Lang Syne of the times: For the first time, a police drone will be keeping watch over the New Year’s Eve celebration in New York’s Times Square. The unmanned eye-in-the-sky is the latest wrinkle in the New York City Police Department’s ever-evolving plan to …
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Illustration by Marium Ali It is tempting to start this essay with the sensationalist claim that the election of Imran Khan as prime minister is part of a process that may end the world as we know it. Apart from everything that is wrong with sensationalism, the statement may unfairly …
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Some of the drone sightings near Gatwick during the airport shutdown may have belonged to police, it has emerged. Sussex Chief Constable Giles York made the admission as he said he felt “really sorry” over an innocent couple being held for 36 hours in connection with the disruption. He insisted …
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in April. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in April. Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press …
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A police chief has said that some of the Gatwick Airport drone sightings could have been police drones – that had been sent up after the original sighting. Police have revealed that they received 115 reports of sightings in the area, including 92 which have been confirmed as coming from …
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Finding ways to hide information in text, unveiling state-sponsored trolls, a plane with no moving parts, wood as strong as titanium and even efforts to go beyond the corporeal to life beyond death… there was seemingly no end to tech innovations in 2018. It was a …
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Our London correspondent, Malek Murison, reports on the fallout from the ‘Battle of Gatwick’ airport debacle. Drones are often in the news at this time of year. More often than not, the stories are harmless: Aviation authorities laying down the law to the influx of new pilots, viral videos of …
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Recent events involving rogue drones have proven lucrative for Australian counter-drone firm DroneShield. Following a purported assassination attempt in August against Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, the company received an order from an unnamed Central American government security agency for DroneShield’s two cornerstone products – the DroneSentry drone mitigation system and the DroneGun Tactical …
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Irrespective of what the future may have in store, the year 2018 has ushered humanity towards an era of next generation technology, demonstrating that there is no looking back in scientific innovations. IMAGE: A general blueprint for an MIT plane propelled by ionic wind. The system may be used to …
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