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Gone is the bullhorn. Instead, New York City emergency management officials have turned high-tech, using drones to warn residents about potential threatening weather. With a buzzing sound in the background, a drone equipped with a loudspeaker flies over homes warning people who live in basement or ground-floor apartments about impending …

Perched in his fire tower high above the pine trees, Nick Dutton leans back and nods to the cascading hills and mountains behind him. “I love being out here, just away from stuff,” he says. “I mean, you can’t really complain.” Dutton, a fire tower operator, is sitting in his …

ICE said it had high confidence the company was “selectively targeting government and privately owned entities within these sectors to expand its ability to collect and exploit sensitive US data”. It said with the data from DJI drones uploaded automatically to cloud servers based in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, …

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. …

Investigators are still working to discover exactly what went wrong with a Lion Air flight in Indonesia on Monday, October 29, when a Boeing 737 MAX plunged into the Java Sea, killing all 189 people onboard. But the initial findings have highlighted a possible sensor problem, and that has been …