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Military hardware deployed to stop drones disrupting flights at Gatwick amid a total shutdown of the airport has been withdrawn. Sightings of the devices over the busy transport hub’s airfield sparked chaos for hundreds of thousands of passengers just before Christmas. The army was brought in to help bring an …

Drones are undeniably cool, but unless you have the necessary know-how making an informed purchasing decision is virtually impossible – there are so many options, from cheap quadcopters to expensive professional drones for which you’ll probably need to justify spending that much on a ‘toy’. If money is going to …

The first trailer for The Drone is here, which finally gives us the horror movie about drones that was always inevitably going to happen. Drones have become something far more commonplace than any of us likely expected they would ever be. Not only do tech giants like Amazon and Google …

IF THERE’S ONE thing we learned this week, it’s how trivial it is for a major part of the UK’s infrastructure to be completely grounded. It turns out that flying a drone near an airport is just as deadly to Britain’s travellers as the dreaded ‘leaves on the line.’ Gatwick …

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 …

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 …

LONDON — More than a week after somebody (or somebodies) with a drone (or drones) shut down a major airport and ruined the travel plans of tens of thousands of people, the British police had little to offer on Thursday except warnings about how little they had to offer. “You …

A photographer has taken a series of searing aerial photos revealing gross inequality across America where rich and poor live side-by-side. Johnny Miller, who was born in the States but now lives in South Africa, has captured pockets of disparity across the country.  His photos capture LA’s skid row, homeless camps that …

New drone owners are being warned about the dangers of flying the devices as soon as they unwrap them this Christmas after the chaos at Gatwick Airport. Police and aviation authorities urged users to read up on strict rules about the remote-controlled gadgets before taking them for their first spin. …

(Bloomberg) — As thousands rush to complete journeys disrupted by the recent drone incursions at London Gatwick airport, here’s a guide to how the aviation industry is responding, and what the long-term fallout might be. Managing Chaos Airlines have a legal duty to get travelers to their destination, no matter …