Thursday 02 May 2024 4:29 pm How It Works is a video interview series, where Jess Jones sits down with business leaders for a discussion about how various technologies work. In this week’s episode of How It Works, City A.M.’s media, tech, and telecoms reporter Jess Jones sits down with Ricardo Mendes, the …
Read More »Comment: Congress can add drones to fight against wildfires
By Paul Peterson / For The Herald The old adage “Mother Nature is the great equalizer” rings particularly true in recent decades, as we’ve witnessed some of the most devastating weather and fire disasters in our nation’s history. Washington state is no stranger to these tragic events: The Labor Day …
Read More »Drones deployed in Placer County fight, prevent spread of mo…
Drones deployed in Placer County fight, prevent spread of mosquitoes Updated: 10:07 PM PDT Apr 19, 2024 ALL RIGHT. GOOD TO SEE YOU GUYS KELLY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE FIGHTING MOSQUITOES FROM THE AIR TODAY. THE PLACER COUNTY MOSQUITO AND VECTOR CONTROL DISTRICT SHOWCASED HOW THEY’RE USING …
Read More »Hill-Lewis says CoCT’s use of tech to fight crime proving fr…
CAPE TOWN – Despite at least five people being killed in suspected gang violence and crime in various areas on the Cape Flats over the long weekend, Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the city’s model to fight crime is working. Speaking on the Kfm breakfast show on Tuesday morning, …
Read More »Monrovia firefighters utilize drone to help fight fires
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Thursday morning, Monrovia Volunteer Fire responded to a fire with a home fully engulfed. The perfect opportunity to roll out their newly purchased drone equipped with a thermal imaging camera. “Every day we find new uses for the drone. This particular event, we found that the …
Read More »WVU researcher using ‘bug bombs’ and drones to fight invasiv…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WBOY) — A West Virginia University researcher is using drones and machine learning to identify and destroy invasive plants without the need for chemicals or herbicides. Dr. Yong-Lak Park, a professor of entomology at WVU, is combatting non-native plant species, like mile-a-minute weed, Japanese knotweed and purple loosestrife, …
Read More »Ukraine’s elite Alpha division uses technology to fight Russ…
August 6, 2023 at 1:00 a.m. EDT One of the combat units of the SBU’s Special Operations Center “Alpha” fighting on the Eastern Front of Ukraine on June 20. 2023. (Sasha Maslov/For The Washington Post) Comment on this storyComment ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, Ukraine — Some of Ukraine’s most elite special forces …
Read More »DVIDS – Video – Modernizing the Fight from Above: Testing an…
A U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the XVIII Airborne Corps test the RQ-28A drone at Fort Bragg, N.C., Feb. 23, 2023. This specially designed UAV was tested on a unique ability to drop live grenades in the battlefield. Date Taken: 02.22.2023 Date …
Read More »Australian company DroneShield cashing in on America’s fight…
In five months this year, 30,500 drones were captured on America’s southern border, almost 4500 of them at night, according to Congressional testimony by Homeland Security officials. “At the border the main issue is the Mexican drug cartels using drones to … shuttle drugs across the border and to conduct …
Read More »County using thermal imaging drone technology to fight crime
By KENDALL KEYS, JAMES PAXSON Click here for updates on this story SAGINAW COUNTY, Michigan (WNEM) — A huge presence of law enforcement that culminated with the arrest of a man suspected of a break-in was done with the help from drone technology. “We can’t afford a helicopter, but I …
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