While the House vote on the 2016 FAA Reauthorization Act appears to be on hold for the moment, Bill Shuster, Chairperson of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and spons... Read more
Like Carl Sagan fans, drone observers have grown comfortably numb when hearing the words “billions and billions” bandied about when speaking of UAV market potential. Marketwatch recently for... Read more
“Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.” ― Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (1970) Philosophers may argue about whether or not technological advances shape human culture or vi... Read more
(Source: New York Times) In classical mythology, Aquila is the eagle carrying Jupiter’s thunderbolts skyward. At Facebook, it is the code name for a high-flying drone, indicative of the so... Read more
When I fly a new drone in public or tell somebody I work with drones, the responses fall into one of two categories: genuine interest or cynical apprehension. The interested people usually l... Read more
(Source: New York Times) A lazy drift of mist obscured an already gray November morning as I stared skeptically skyward in Morningside Park. It was not, I told myself, technically raining;... Read more
(Source: New York Times) When a small drone slipped free from its operator one morning last week and flew into the Washington sky, evading radar and the best defenses of the United States... Read more
(Source: Washington Post) Coming soon: News via drone? Ten media organizations, including The Washington Post, said Thursday that they will test the feasibility of gathering news via unman... Read more
Look to the sky and say “Cheese!” Taking photos and videos from a flying drone has quickly emerged as a popular hobby, allowing for often stunning images from new perspectives. One of the la... Read more
from New York Times Jeremiah Johnson was flying his battery-powered drone above a park in Brooklyn on a recent weekend when he saw something in the distance. Faster than you could say “speed... Read more
from New York Times Belize has made a great effort to protect its coral reef system — the largest in the Western Hemisphere — by establishing more than a dozen protected areas. But patrollin... Read more
from New York Times The call came after 8 in the evening, from peacekeepers posted in a remote corner of the country’s restive east. The troops sensed suspicious movement nearby. Venturing o... Read more
from Nick Bilton at bits.blogs.nytimes.com If you present people with a new, exciting technology, chances are they will use it to take photographs of themselves. Take drones, those hovering,... Read more