While many of us might drool over powerful high-flying drones like those from DJI, Yuneec and 3D Robotics, most of us will be flying less expensive radio-controlled multirotor toys made to zip around your living room or backyard for a few minutes at a time until you inevitably crash or get stuck in a tree. …
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Download the audio version of today’s episode:Facebook Messenger isn’t just for friends. It’s also for having awkward conversations with company chatbots. Mark Zuckerberg revealed some examples of how bots will operate in Messenger, along with other ways Facebook is expanding its reach. Watch CNET Update below for a quick recap of the biggest news from Facebook’s F8 conference: Now playing: …
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Congratulations to Tim L. of Pembroke Pines, Florida, for winning an Arccos Driver golf-performance-tracking system in last week’s giveaway. So you have a DJI Phantom 3 or Phantom 4 drone, but you wish it could travel farther from the remote than the standard 1.2 or 3.1 miles the gadgets can venture respectively. Read on. Drone World, an authorized retailer of …
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The DJI Phantom 4 may come packed with a tonne of intelligent flight modes to help you send it soaring through the sky, but what we really care about is how it stacks up against Mother Nature’s finest — a barn owl. In this special video we put beak against lens, wings against propellors and feathers against, well, plastic, in …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Hey, quick reminder: Enter for your chance to win a Jabra audio bundle! You’ve got until this Friday to toss your name into …
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Now playing: Watch this: Can drones help save California’s coastline? 1:47 War. Surveillance. Killer robots. Drones often come with these negative connotations. But photographer Eric Cheng wants that to change. “A lot of us who are drone enthusiasts or work in the profession are really interested in the idea of drones for good, the idea that drones are just a …
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Not every drone lives a life of luxury, flying lazily over parks with soft grass below to cushion its fall in case of an accident. Some drones live dangerously and get run over by flying jet skis in spectacular mid-air collisions. Filmmaker Guy Mac on Tuesday released the official event video for the 2016 Yamaha New Zealand Festival of Freeride …
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Cellular connection or not, I am not a good drone pilot. That’s what I learned from my brief time at telecom-gear maker Ericsson’s booth at the Mobile World Congress trade show last week in Barcelona. I had a chance to pilot a drone more than 1,400 miles away in Stockholm with the help of an Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset and …
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How do you solve a problem like connecting the 1.7 billion people to the Internet who live outside of the range of mobile broadband? If you’re Facebook, the answer is drones. Also, lasers. Facebook’s drone project, named Aquila, is one of several initiatives the company is testing as part of the Internet.org coalition to try to improve global Internet access. …
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