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Sometimes the capturing of an image or a single video can have a transformative effect. George Floyd’s killing is an example. The eight-minute, 46-second video speaks for itself. That is why it sent so many Americans onto the streets. And anyone contending with state violence, whether they are in Minneapolis, …

Martha Mendoza, Associated Press Updated 9:02 am PDT, Wednesday, May 27, 2020 With a loud whir and a whoosh, a fixed-wing drone slingshots out of a medical warehouse, zips through hazy skies at 80 mph, pops open a belly hatch and drops a box of medical supplies. Slowed by a little …

RABAT: Morocco has rapidly expanded its fleet of drones as it battles the coronavirus pandemic, deploying them for aerial surveillance, public service announcements and sanitisation. “This is a real craze. In just weeks, demand has tripled in Morocco and other countries in the region,” said Yassine Qamous, chief of Droneway …

Drones are being increasingly called into action during the COVID-19 crisis, primarily as surveillance tools and mobile speakers to remind people about the importance of lockdown. But there are other use-cases for drones, too. Last month, Digital Trends wrote about how Draganfly, one of the longest-serving commercial drone companies, was …

“It’s controlled chaos,” joked John Stempinski, tech and engineering teacher at Valley Middle School. Over the past few weeks, this has been the scene every Thursday and Friday at the school’s newest course offering on UAS technology. Now in its first year, the class is aimed at giving students a …

Adrian Sainz, The Associated Press Published Wednesday, March 6, 2019 10:34PM EST Rescue crews didn’t have to stumble through every destroyed building in their search for victims after a tornado ravaged a corner of Alabama this week: They used heat-seeking drones to let them know whether there was anyone beneath …

Flying taxis and different futuristic passenger automobiles are about to take a large leap out of science fiction and into actuality. It’s not precisely the imaginative and prescient of the “Back To The Future” movie trilogy, which predicted that by 2015 we’d fill the skies with flying automobiles and get …