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The Chinese balloon, spotted above Charlotte, North Carolina on 4 February 2023

Unidentified objects: What's behind the rise in aerial shootdowns?

13 February 2023

A spate of shootdowns involving balloons and other flying objects over North America comes as the US military is becoming more sensitive to unidentified aerial phenomena


Volodymyr Zelenskyy and drone

Will Ukraine deploy lethal autonomous drones against Russia?

1 November 2022

Ukraine has used drones in innovative ways throughout the Russia-Ukraine war, and may now be preparing to deploy machines capable of finding and attacking targets without direct human control


Facebook can map more of Earth in a week than we have in history

Facebook can map more of Earth in a week than we have in history

24 February 2016

Facebook’s incredible mapping feat shows that neural networks are starting to do serious volumes of work seriously fast. Here’s why it matters


Drones do awkward dance to avoid crashing

Drones do awkward dance to avoid crashing

26 November 2014

A new collision avoidance system for drones lets them see each other on camera and take steps to minimise the risk of crashing mid-air


Can Google Express deliver on same-day shopping?

Can Google Express deliver on same-day shopping?

17 October 2014

Google has found another way to reach into our lives with its same-day delivery service. But it needs to harness new technology to make Google Express viable


Ethical trap: robot paralysed by choice of who to save

Ethical trap: robot paralysed by choice of who to save

10 September 2014

Can a robot learn right from wrong? Attempts to imbue robots, self-driving cars and military machines with a sense of ethics reveal just how hard this is


ButtonMasher: Photorealism takes gaming deeper

ButtonMasher: Photorealism takes gaming deeper

8 July 2014

A new wave of games uses thousands of photos to recreate every detail of the real world and heighten our sense of immersion


Harvey, the robot farmer fixing the US labour shortage

Harvey, the robot farmer fixing the US labour shortage

18 June 2014

It's getting harder to find people to work on farms in the US – robo-farmers are shifting plants and could soon be picking strawberries in their place


Drone law: Flying into a legal twilight zone

Drone law: Flying into a legal twilight zone

14 May 2014

You can buy a drone in a toy store and they're all over YouTube – but US law still doesn't know what to do with them


Facebook drones alone won't help the offline world

Facebook drones alone won't help the offline world

12 March 2014

Big tech firms like Facebook and Google want to bring the internet to the poor world, but their high-flying access points can be only part of the solution


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