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Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
First Legal Drone Delivery Takes Flight, Beats Out Amazon Last Friday marked the first successful drone delivery carried out legally in the U.S., with a drone cleared for liftoff by the Federal Aviation Authority.   |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Drones Are Delivering Contraband To Prisons As drones become more ubiquitous, prisons are struggling with the question of how to protect against contraband deliveries from the skies. |
| Fast Company |
Drone Giant DJI And Top VC Firm Accel Partners Launch A $10 Million Drone Fund Today, Accel Partners, a VC firm that's backed heavyweights like Facebook, Dropbox, and Spotify, announced SkyFund, a new drones fund in conjunction with China's DJI, the maker of popular quadcopters like the Phantom and the Inspire. |
Fast Company
September 2015
Daniel Terdiman |
DJI And GoPro Are Engaging In Their Own Kind Of Drone Warfare DJI, the Chinese-based company that's the world's largest drone seller, is on a collision course with GoPro, the American maker of the world's most popular action cameras. |
Fast Company
Michael Grothaus |
Google Exec Says Drone Deliveries Could Begin Early Next Year Dave Vos's proclamation that drone deliveries could become a real thing in 2017 might seem like wishful thinking, but he says it's possible because the hurdles aren't technical, they're regulatory. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
NASA Wants Your Ideas For Managing Skies Filled With Drones NASA and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International are hosting a conference at the end of July in Moffett Field, California to bring government authorities, industry professionals, and amateur enthusiasts together to chat about drones. |
Popular Mechanics
November 28, 2007
Erik Sofge |
Houston Cops' Test Drone Now in Iraq, Operator Says The FAA-approved test involved a single fixed-wing drone that's currently used by both the Marines and the Navy in Iraq. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
AIG Launches Drone Insurance Policies AIG, one of the world's largest insurers, is rolling out a new set of policies aimed at the growing drone industry. |
National Defense
October 2015
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
New Approach Needed for Recreational Drone Rules A lack of concrete rules to regulate recreational unmanned aerial vehicles across the United States is leading to chaos and many dangerous close-call collisions, said one drone expert. |
Fast Company
Eric Hansen |
The Best Drones For Aerial Photography, Videography, And Generally Having Fun Dozens of pre-assembled consumer drones are now available between $200 and $9,000, and we looked into virtually all of them. |
National Defense
January 2016
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Defense Industry Developing Systems to Defeat Enemy Drones Experts and company executives envision a future where new technology employed by the military or government agencies could spot rogue or hostile drones, identify them and even commandeer or stop them mid-air. |
Popular Mechanics
February 28, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Crash-Proof UAVs Fly Blind at MIT's High-Tech Aerodrome The Real-Time Indoor Autonomous Vehicle Test Environment (RAVEN) lab allows researches to test new designs for unmanned aircraft. |
National Defense
June 2015
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Drones Could Mitigate Terrorist Attacks Had a drone been employed to watch over the Boston Marathon in 2013, it is possible the attack could have been prevented |
The Motley Fool
May 27, 2011
Rich Smith |
Look, Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Plane! Nope. It's Raytheon's newest, coolest drone. |
National Defense
July 2012
Eric Beidel |
Controversies Do Little to Temper U.S. Employment of Armed Aerial Drones With the war in Iraq over and the one in Afghanistan winding down, the fight against terrorists will become more decentralized, leaving experts to ponder where the United States will next employ its armed drones. |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
Google's Project Wing Swoops Into Drone Air Traffic Control Conversation Dave Vos, who heads up the search giant's secretive version of a delivery drone -- talked about how the company wants to join with some of technology's biggest players in a broad air-traffic control system. |
The Motley Fool
May 16, 2007
Nathan Parmelee |
Quick Take: Is Sony Really Turning the Corner? Sony still has an uphill climb in a few segments, but the financial health overall has reached a point where it is apparent that the turnaround is working. Investors, take note. |
National Defense
May 2015
Allyson Versprille |
Small Off-the-Shelf Drones Causing Alarm In Security Circles Small, readily available unmanned aerial systems pose an increased risk to national security as the technology grows more capable, a panel of experts testified before Congress. |
National Defense
August 2015
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
More Sophisticated, Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft on the Horizon In the future, unmanned aerial systems will hold even more utility as they become faster, stealthier and more autonomous, experts said. At the same time, they will become more accessible to foreign countries and terrorist groups around the world. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Sony vs. Sony As the recording and electronics industries face off over digital music, one company has had the uniquely uncomfortable position of standing on both sides of the issue: Sony. |
National Defense
May 2011
Grace V. Jean |
Drones Becoming Special Operations Forces' Indispensible Tools of War Drones are rapidly evolving from airplane-like dimensions to supersized airships with wings the length of football fields and tiny robots that look and fly like birds and insects. Systems are gaining greater intelligence and autonomy. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Erik Sofge |
Britain's Police Drone: Could It Stop Next Terror Plot? Authorities in the U.K. are testing a tiny helicopter with a camera. Is constant urban surveillance on the horizon? Or is Britain ready to foil the next threat even faster? |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2005
Tarek Sultani |
Shaky Times for Sony The slumping electronics giant needs to restore its high-quality brand image. With the stock price at a two-year low, this may be the perfect opportunity to buy cheaply. |
The Motley Fool
August 17, 2006
Brian Gorman |
Lockheed's Good Offense A proposal for a JSF drone shows the company is well positioned to capture future defense contracts. Investors, take note. |
National Defense
August 2015
Allyson Versprille |
Marine Corps Developing Low Cost Robot Swarms to Counter Enemy Drones As the technology for unmanned systems proliferates, one of the biggest challenges facing the military today is countering small, inexpensive drones used by the enemy in unexpected ways, said a Marine Corps official. |
Fast Company
Ainsley O'Connell |
Phantom Maker DJI May Become The First Billion-Dollar Drone Company The company earned $500 million in revenue in 2014, according to The Verge, and expects to more than double that total in 2015, solidifying its position as the leading manufacturer of consumer-friendly flying robots. |
The Motley Fool
June 7, 2011
Dan Radovsky |
Drones: More Than a Buzzword for Boeing Boeing's gamble in unmanned aircraft may pay off ... one day. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
FAA Gives Amazon Green Light To Test Delivery Drones In effect, it's a green light by the FAA for Jeff Bezos and company to start legally mucking around with delivery via tiny, unmanned aircraft. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Amazon To Congress: Drone Delivery Aircraft Ready Within A Year Senior officials from Amazon and the Federal Aviation Administration testified before Congress yesterday on the feasibility of using drones for commercial purposes. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Report: $1.9 Billion Invested In Space Travel Startups Since 2014 Venture capital database CB Insights released the report, titled "Future of Frontier Tech," which also says that drone startups have raised $285 million since 2014 and virtual/augmented reality companies $1 billion. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
FAA Task Force Issues New Drone Guidelines Registering drone operators -- and not the aircraft they're flying -- will help the Transportation Department identify flyers who violate FAA regulations. |
Fast Company
Miles Kohrman |
A Drone Takes You Inside The Ghost Town Abandoned After The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Earlier this week, HEXaMedia, a Tokyo-based company specializing in multicopter aerial video and photography, released a seven-minute video with drone footage of the area. |
