Drones flown straight at aircraft to test collision avoidance tech
24 May 2019
A start-up has tested its collision avoidance system by flying drones straight at planes and helicopters over 7000 times — so far there haven't been any crashes
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The race to build a space internet available to anyone, anywhere
1 May 2019
Tech billionaires are building a wireless, orbiting internet accessible in even the deepest jungle. The first satellites are already up - but do we really want it?
We have to find a way to stop drones disrupting airports
20 March 2019
Drones near airports are grounding flights and leaving people miserable, but can we actually find a way to stop them?
Police drones with lasers could help find a murder victim in Australia
26 February 2019
The Australian Federal Police wants to use drones equipped with lasers to find a buried body in a murder case
The US plans to launch swarms of attack drones from robo-submarines
12 February 2019
The US Navy has a project that plans to use an autonomous submarine to launch a swarm of attack drones from underwater
Dan Holdsworth captures a vanishing landscape in a point-cloud
12 December 2018
Armed with drones, helicopters and military-grade software, a British photographer has developed a new way to remember glaciers
Drone owners in India must get government approval before every flight
11 December 2018
A law designed to open up civilian access to the skies in India overturns a ban on drones, but only by giving the government automated control over when they can take off
Serge Wich: How drones are conserving wildlife
7 December 2018
Tracking declines in biodiversity in the tropics can be tricky – but drones and astrophysicists are helping conservationists to keep up, explains biologist Serge Wich
Search engine for CCTV lets you find people from their description
28 October 2018
Trawling through surveillance video for a suspect or missing person is slow work, but a new system can automatically match footage of people to their descriptions
President Trump says the US will pull out of a nuclear treaty
24 October 2018
Donald Trump said this week that the US will pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, saying both Russia and China possess the missiles it bans
