by Shayna Gersher, Ottawa Citizen Ottawa Citizen Drones, or “unmanned aircraft systems”, are flying data recording devices increasingly taking to Canadian skies. They come in various shapes... Read more
by Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor DesignNews I guess it was inevitable: 3D printing has met up with drones in a 3D-printed UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle). University of Sheffie... Read more
Earlier this week, Montana State Senator and Congressional Candidate Matt Rosendale posted a new campaign ad on YouTube. For a 30 second clip, it sure conveys a lot of information about the... Read more
On Monday, Google announced it was buying drone manufacturer Titan Aerospace. In March, Facebook bought Ascenta, a similar company based in the UK. As we wait to see which drone company Twit... Read more
Combining the explosive growth of the drone industry with the fact that drone pilots can earn up to six figure salaries is yielding the perfect storm for academia. Over the past five years,... Read more
The best part of emerging technologies is watching all the crazy applications people come up with. Even today in 2014, when new gadgets roll out every other day and the reaction is typically... Read more
Google has agreed to buy Titan Aerospace, the UAV startup that was previously courted by Facebook. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the New Mexico-based manufacturer of high-a... Read more
It seems we may actually be through the worst of winter. With the snow finally melted and several three-day-weekends in the next couple months, you probably are contemplating your first vaca... Read more
Sensefly, the Switzerland-based branch of Parrot announced eBee Ag, a new fully autonomous aerial imaging drone for precision agriculture applications. “The eBee Ag enables growers and coop... Read more
Over the last several years, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in military operations has raised a new level of heated debate across the political spectrum. Use of drones by the Obama and... Read more
Exemplifying the perfect marriage of two emerging technologies, researchers at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (ADMRC) at the University of Sheffield in the UK have been developin... Read more
Last month at the Black Hat conference in London, information security company SensePost unveiled Snoopy, a tracking and profiling framework that can easily hack into mobile Wi-Fi, Bluetooth... Read more
Last week we posted a video shot with a drone that gives you a first person view of what it would be like to be Superman. One of the thoughts we had while watching the video was “imagi... Read more
Who owns the space 100 feet above the roof of your house? You’re not going to build your house that high – even if zoning ordinances allowed it- and the Federal Aviation Administ... Read more