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Wearables and smartwatches aren’t all disappointments. While Fitbit is expected to announce a holiday sales letdown over the last quarter, rival Garmin’s fourth quarter earnings financial results saw an overall 10 percent revenue increase, and the success was due to the company’s fitness and outdoors products. Garmin’s outdoor, fitness, marine and aviation units, in particular, …

Qantas is finally switching on in-flight Wi-Fi on domestic flights this month, promising sky-high Netflix, Spotify and Foxtel streaming, all thanks to NBN’s Sky Muster satellite service. The airline first announced the technological upgrade last year, confirming that it would use idle data capacity made available through the NBN satellite service to bring Wi-Fi speeds that are up to 10 …

To nobody’s surprise, Super Bowl 2017 is off limits to drones. But it’s not just the stadium where your quadcopter will be grounded. (Tough luck if you had hopes of an aerial video of crowds swarming through the parking lot.) The Federal Aviation Administration, which sets rules for aircraft, has barred drones for a 34.5-mile radius around NRG Stadium in …

Bessie Coleman took women of color to new heights, even when many were trying to keep her down. On Thursday, on what would have been Coleman’s 125th birthday, Google published an animated doodle highlighting the life of the American civil aviator who was the first female pilot of African-American descent and the first woman of Native American descent to earn …

Inside an incredible 134-year-old building in Manchester, England, I found something I didn’t expect: an Avro Shackleton patrol aircraft. And a massive tandem-rotor Bristol Belvedere helicopter. It’s the Air and Space hall of the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI). The rest of the museum is across the street, and in addition to science exhibits for kids (and adults) there’s …

This isn’t what I imagined from Amazon’s cloud-based technology. In recently discovered patent images, Amazon drafted a plan to have an airship 45,000 feet above the Earth, storing a fleet of drones and packages to deliver. Amazon said these unmanned aerial vehicles would take “little to no power” to transport goods to consumers’ doorsteps if they are dropping down and …

Coming in for a landing at Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla airport, you can’t miss it. It looks like…a glass doughnut. It’s so radically different form the buildings around it, you immediately start wondering what it is. Which is what lead me to discover one of the most interesting air museums I’ve ever visited, the Belgrade Aviation Museum. It’s wonderfully weird, not …

Three quarters of a century have passed since the instigating event that brought the US into World War II. The bombing of Pearl Harbor was a key moment in the history of the 20th century, profoundly affecting countless events that happened after. Today the iconic ships and planes so familiar to the seas and skies during the war have become …

Random drones buzzing over airports. If you think that sounds like a terrible idea, then the Federal Aviation Administration agrees with you. To find the best tools to keep drones from messing with your takeoffs and landings, the FAA is testing drone-detection technology at the Denver International Airport, the agency said Wednesday. It’s one of six tests the agency will …

If you’re unfamiliar with the most Australian of practices, no trip to a Bunnings hardware store on a weekend morning is complete without a quick stop at the charity barbecue out front for a sausage sizzle. Normally it’d cost you a couple of dollarydoos, but one enterprising drone pilot could be on the hook for a AU$9,000 fine, The Age …