This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. A happy new year to one and all! Welcoming in 2016 also means welcoming in the world’s biggest tech show — CES, held in glittering Las Vegas. This …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Let’s get one thing straight — this isn’t the kind of paper airplane that your grandpa taught you to make. The PowerUp FPV is a live streaming paper airplane drone that is part …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Intel wants to power more than PCs. It wants to power drones, too. The Santa Clara, California-based chip giant said Monday it will acquire Ascending Technologies, a German drone maker. The Krailing, Germany-based …
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A drone may one day deliver your selfies to Twitter. The San Francisco-based company was granted a patent last week for an unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, for capturing photos and videos that can then be shared through users’ accounts on the microblogging network. The drone’s movements would be controlled by Twitter users’ likes, tweets and replies, determining what images …
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Call them drones or multirotors or quadcopters or flying cameras, it doesn’t matter: As of December 21, 2015, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is requesting anyone who wants to fly an unmanned aerial system (UAS) more than 0.55 pounds (250 grams) and less than 55 pounds (approximately 25 kilograms) for recreation or hobby to register with the agency. The …
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Whenever Amazon’s Prime Air plan finally gets off the ground, watch for more than just one type of drone coming to your doorstep. The e-commerce powerhouse has unveiled a new design for its delivery drones, nearly two years to the day after it first teased us with its ambitions for the diminutive and unmanned aerial vehicles. In a video posted …
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On Black Friday — or more like from November 26 through 30 — you can buy a Phantom 3 Professional or Standard direct from DJI and save money off the drones. The Professional gets a $100 price cut bringing it down to $1,160. That’s not much of a dent, but DJI is including an extra battery, which is $150 on …
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I’m an avid fan of both quadcopters and startup pitch TV show “Shark Tank,” so when the two came together last week, I was eager to see the outcome. I never expected a feeding a frenzy. All five “sharks” took a stake in xCraft, a company with one drone in production, the X PlusOne, and another now on Kickstarter, the …
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Enlarge ImageSingapore’s first test of mail delivery via drone included flying over the ocean. Singapore Post Singapore Post, the country’s postal service, has delivered a package in its first drone test. The drone traveled 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) across the ocean to a nearby island to deliver a bundle with a t-shirt and letter to a postal employee who was …
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This Lockheed UCLASS concept drone hints at the future for unmanned aircraft. Lockheed Martin Apple removed two mobile apps from its App Store that report deaths caused by US drone strikes. Its reasoning? The apps contained “excessively rude or objectionable content.” Metadata+ was designed by Intercept editor Josh Begley as a project to push out openly available data published by …
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