Drones

South Korea Preps Serious Anti-Drone Measures Ahead of Winter Olympics

Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korean officials are prepping a fleet of specially equipped tactical drones to deter terrorism. Korean outlets Hankyoreh and Yonhap report the fleet includes drones equipped with cameras, face recognition capabilities, and a “drone-catching drone” that will drop nets to disable suspicious UAVs. The opening ceremony will take…

Tech News Sidney Fussell Jan 31

At 60 Frames Per Second, It Feels Like I’m Riding This Drone As It Races Down a Mountain

If there was ever a good reason to fullscreen a video on your computer, this is it. The third episode of Team Blacksheep’s Long Term Paradise series, featuring some of the best drone pilots in the world, might have you experiencing vertigo if you’re brave enough to watch this footage running at a full 60…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jan 30

Try to Watch an SUV Cross This Terrifying Siberian Bridge Without Having a Panic Attack

Even when they’re built from concrete and steel using proven engineering principles, I still get anxious when crossing certain bridges. So there’s less than a zero percent chance that I’ll ever try crossing this 1,640-foot test of bravery in Siberia. It looks like it could instantly collapse under the weight of just a single snowflake.…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jan 25

DJI’s New Mavic Air Is So Small It Fits in a Jacket Pocket

DJI just revealed a new, delightfully tiny drone called the Mavic Air. It’s a lot like the DJI Spark, announced last year, but its rotor arms fold in making the little bitty aircraft even more little bitty. If you set the Mavic Air on the table next to your smartphone, you’d find they have about…

Gadgets Adam Clark Estes Jan 23

A Drone Just Saved the Lives of Two Teenage Boys in Australia

New South Wales’ $340,000 investment in drones has apparently paid off in a major way. On Thursday, two teenage boys in Australia struggling offshore were saved thanks to a rescue drone, the BBC reported. Ben Franklin, Parliamentary Secretary for Northern NSW, told the Sydney Morning Herald that “it only took 70 seconds” for the drone—the…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Jan 18

New Jersey Legislators Approve Penalties for Drunk Droning

New Jersey state legislators approved a ban on operating drones while inebriated on Monday, approving legislation that would punish drunk or high pilots with up to six months in prison or a $1,000 fine 39-0 in the State Senate and 65-0 in the State Assembly. The bill is all but set to become law, though…

Gadgets Tom McKay Jan 8

GoPro Loses Two-Year Battle With the Sky

The Karma is finally dead. First announced in December of 2015, action cam company GoPro has pulled the plug on its heavily delayed, disastrous aerial photography drone, best known for its spectacular propensity for falling out of the sky. The news comes days after a report that said the company was laying off several hundred…

Tech News Avery Ellis Jan 8

Drone Captures the Trippy Controlled Chaos of Dogs Herding Sheep

If you’ve taken a peek at the news anytime in the past 12 months, then there’s a good chance you’re having a hard time falling asleep every night. Counting sheep is apparently one way to drift off, but a trippy drone’s-eye view of dogs herding and corralling sheep might be even more effective. The individual…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jan 2

The Machines Are Probably Not Coming For Our Drug-Dealing Jobs

Authorities say a couple in California incorporated some cutting-edge tech into their drug dealing operation—only to discover that a whirring machine in the sky may not be more discreet than a person walking down the street. Last week, 39-year-old Benjamin Baldassarre and 31-year-old Ashley Carroll were arrested in Riverside, California for allegedly selling illegal drugs…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Dec 27

The FAA Will Ban Drones From Flying Near Nuclear Research Labs, for Some Reason

Oak Ridge. Y-12. Los Alamos. For drone operators it appears these and four other Department of Energy nuclear research facilities were theoretically places an unmanned aircraft could have been flown. And for the next week and a half that remains the case until new FAA restrictions take effect on December 29th. Yes, by all accounts…

Tech News Avery Ellis Dec 18

Drone Gang Jailed After Impressive 49-Flight Prison Smuggling Run

People have been using drones to smuggle goods for years. Porn, weapons, drugs—god, so many drugs. The tiny whirring machines have proven discreet little contraband-transport contraptions, but one smuggling operation’s astoundingly successful run just got grounded. From July 2015 through May of this year, a drone gang made at least 49 flights into prisons in…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Dec 13

Turns Out Eagles Are a Bad Solution for Capturing Rogue Drones

In January of last year, the Dutch National Police announced they were training eagles to take down misbehaving drones. More than a year later, police have determined that perhaps sicking massive birds of prey at rogue contraptions in the sky isn’t an ideal solution. NOS reports that Dutch police are retiring the project due to…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Dec 12

Earth Looks Like a Bleak Alien World Under the Blinding Glow of a Drone Carrying a Spotlight

As soon as cameras got small enough to ride along with drones, the internet quickly filled with amazing aerial footage shot by pros and amateurs alike. But in addition to a camera-equipped drone, filmmaker Ian Montgomery used a second quadcopter carrying a bright spotlight to capture these eerie videos of what barely looks like Earth.…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Dec 4

Amazon Wants to Protect You From Falling Drones by Making Them Self-Destruct

It was almost two years ago to the day when Amazon released a cheeky video detailing its plans to conquer the skies with a fleet of package-delivering drones. We’re still waiting for these unmanned aircraft to replace standard trucks and delivery personnel, but it’s clear Amazon hasn’t abandoned the idea. Earlier this week, Amazon was…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Dec 1

Homeland Security Thinks DJI Is Using Its Drones to Spy on America

Various members of the Trump administration, including the president himself, are famous for buying into crazy conspiracy theories. Now, the Los Angeles office of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has come up with a whopper of its own. These guys think China is spying on unsuspecting Americans with DJI drones. The New York…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Nov 30

Drone Pilot Drops ‘Anti-Media’ Leaflets Over NFL Games, Fails to Send Message

On Sunday, one man decided to take to the skies with a consumer drone to spread his manifesto over two NFL stadiums in California. He probably would’ve been better off just posting on Reddit. The San Francisco 49ers were entering the second quarter of their face-off against the Seattle Seahawks at Levi’s Stadium in Santa…

Tech News Rhett Jones Nov 27

Artificially Intelligent Drones Become Terrifying Killing Machines in Dystopian Short Film

In preparation for this week’s UN Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva, Switzerland, the Future of Life Institute has released a disturbing sci-fi short that shows what might happen if we fail to place an international moratorium on autonomous killing machines. Currently, drones employed by the US military require humans to stay in the loop,…

Artificial Intelligence George Dvorsky Nov 13

A Drone Captured This Hypnotic Timelapse Footage by Flying in Giant Circles

Sometimes a unique camera move can produce fascinating footage without the need for special effects or weeks of post-production. For its short film, Low Earth Orbit, Visual Suspect, a Hong Kong-based video production company, simply had a camera drone fly in a giant orbit to capture dizzying aerial footage of Folegandros island in Greece. The…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Nov 10

The LAPD Has Decided It Needs Drones

The Los Angeles Police Department approved a test program to deploy drones alongside its officers on Tuesday, with the Police Commission voting 3-1 to roll out a year-long “small Unmanned Aerial System” program. Per the L.A. Times, the hotly contested decision allows police in the city to deploy the robots in a variety of conditions,…

Gadgets Tom McKay Oct 18

Hey, Maybe Don’t Fly Drones Where Firefighters Are Trying to Save Lives

It’s understandable that UAV enthusiasts might be tempted to grab amazing footage of ongoing disasters like the northern California wildfires—providing a unique perspective of a climate change-fueled catastrophe which has now killed at least 41 people, burned down thousands of buildings and laid waste to hundreds of thousands of acres of land. But with over…

Gadgets Tom McKay Oct 16

South Korea Preps Serious Anti-Drone Measures Ahead of Winter Olympics

At 60 Frames Per Second, It Feels Like I’m Riding This Drone As It Races Down a Mountain

Try to Watch an SUV Cross This Terrifying Siberian Bridge Without Having a Panic Attack

DJI’s New Mavic Air Is So Small It Fits in a Jacket Pocket

A Drone Just Saved the Lives of Two Teenage Boys in Australia

New Jersey Legislators Approve Penalties for Drunk Droning

GoPro Loses Two-Year Battle With the Sky

Drone Captures the Trippy Controlled Chaos of Dogs Herding Sheep

The Machines Are Probably Not Coming For Our Drug-Dealing Jobs

The FAA Will Ban Drones From Flying Near Nuclear Research Labs, for Some Reason

Drone Gang Jailed After Impressive 49-Flight Prison Smuggling Run

Turns Out Eagles Are a Bad Solution for Capturing Rogue Drones

Earth Looks Like a Bleak Alien World Under the Blinding Glow of a Drone Carrying a Spotlight

Amazon Wants to Protect You From Falling Drones by Making Them Self-Destruct

Homeland Security Thinks DJI Is Using Its Drones to Spy on America

Drone Pilot Drops ‘Anti-Media’ Leaflets Over NFL Games, Fails to Send Message

Artificially Intelligent Drones Become Terrifying Killing Machines in Dystopian Short Film

A Drone Captured This Hypnotic Timelapse Footage by Flying in Giant Circles

The LAPD Has Decided It Needs Drones

Hey, Maybe Don’t Fly Drones Where Firefighters Are Trying to Save Lives

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