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INALÅHAN, Guam (THE WASHINGTON POST) – The drone’s propellers whirred to life, blurring as they picked up speed and filling the air with a mechanical buzzing. Within seconds, the large buglike contraption was rising high above a largely barren stretch of red clay soil – one of many that run …

Thread, the leader of enterprise-scale autonomous data collection for delivering precise inspection insights, announced that it closed a Series A funding round in the amount of $15M. The round was led by Badlands Capital with notable participation from an early utility partner of Thread’s, Minnkota Power Cooperative, Generational Partners, Rosecliff Ventures, Excell Partners, Homegrown Capital and Kevin O’Leary’s Wonder Fund North …

Unlike other engineering aspirants, Anant Mittal didn’t aim to join the IIT or the Computer Science branch of engineering. All he was sure about was his passion to develop physical technologies and he believed any good college could provide him the opportunity as long as it had the required resources. …

A Pentagon initiative for open-source drones is sending ripples beyond the military market. Small military drones will now conform to the new Blue sUAS standard, encouraging suppliers to use software supplied by open-source leaders Auterion. Last week five new drones were cleared for purchase by U.S. military customers under the …

High in the sky, far above undulating hills flooded with bright yellow gorse bushes, a small black dot zips back and forth. It flies first one way, then back the other in a matrix formation, taking dozens of pictures of the ground below. “A drone takes a twentieth of the …