Can drones also be artists? That’s a question that arises when you see the Pollockocopter in action. The flying machine comes from German aerial photography and drone company Cooper Copter. It looks pretty much like a regular quadcopter, but it carries a payload of a balloon filled with paint. You can see where this is …
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If you’re the type who does a full day’s shooting in 4K video with an action cam, drone or SLR, you’ll appreciate SanDisk’s announcement Tuesday that it’s working on an SD memory card with a whopping 1 terabyte of storage capacity. That’s more storage space than flash memory-based laptops come with and four times that of a top-end iPhone 7, …
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Now playing: Watch this: GoPro’s Hero5 likes water, swearing and flying on the… 4:18 The new GoPro action cameras are here. GoPro CEO Nick Woodman on Monday announced the Hero 5 Black and Hero 5 Session. Both cameras are capable of capturing 4k video, include electronic image stabilization and support voice controls in multiple languages. The Hero 5 Black also …
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Aerial photography. Real estate tours. Drone burrito delivery. Imagine the money you could make (and fun you could have!) if you flew for profit. Sadly, drone businesses aren’t legal in the United States unless the government makes an exception for you — or unless you get your own drone license under the FAA’s brand-new rules. Starting Monday, August 29, you …
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Artificial intelligence today can organize your iPhone photos, answer your Gmail, endow drones with vision and decode human speech. And with Microsoft’s newest SwiftKey keyboard app, AI will guess what you’re about to type next, too. On Thursday, Microsoft released a new version of its SwiftKey for Android that includes an AI technology called a neural network to try to …
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Claw arms hardly make a drone look less terrifying, but they could make it more useful. That’s the promise of Prodrone’s latest hoverbot, the snappily-named PD6B-AW-ARM. This claw-handed drone can fly up to 6 km per hour and stay in the air for 30 minutes. Using its two five-axis robotic arms, it can lift a whopping 22 pounds, which is …
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Alphabet will seek to redefine the meaning of fast food next month when it begins using drones to deliver burritos to hungry college students. The Google parent’s Project Wing said Thursday it has partnered with Chipotle Mexican Grill on a temporary test to deliver burritos on the campus of Virginia Tech. Alphabet’s unmanned aircraft will take burritos from a Chipolte …
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The Federal Aviation Administration might still be working out how commercial unmanned aerial systems, or drones, fit into US airspace, but that’s not stopping Qualcomm from researching how to make the skies — and the ground below — safer right now. Qualcomm will work with AT&T and its commercial 4G LTE network to begin trials to analyze how drones can …
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Parrot might be best known for its consumer drones like the Bebop, but it has a deep history of developing technologies for professionals, too. Case in point, the SLAMdunk, an open development kit for Linux-based drones and robotic platforms for work with autonomous navigation, obstacle avoidance, indoor navigation and 3D mapping, specifically in environments with multiple barriers and where GPS …
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Now playing: Watch this: Apple set to focus on iPhone at September 7 event 2:21 If you’re looking to be wowed by a new iPhone design, you might have to wait until 2017. This is supposed to be a year of big changes for the iPhone, but all rumors so far point to minor tweaks in Apple’s iPhone 7, which …
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