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The FCC has proposed $25,000 fines against eight companies it suspects of selling rebranded DJI hardware in the United States after they ignored federal inquiries, escalating a case that could end in revoked equipment authorizations.
A misconfigured Skydio sharing link left live SFPD drone video, thermal footage, and pilot names exposed on the open internet for roughly six months before two security researchers found it.
A St. Cloud police drone found 73-year-old Ronald Statz alive in a Stearns County cornfield after a dozen agencies, including a State Patrol plane and a DNR helicopter, searched for hours.
An 18-year-old whitewater kayak guide from Grass Valley is building Winter, an autonomous drone that pairs thermal search with defibrillator and water delivery, after losing a friend in a kayaking accident.
DJI revealed its first eVTOL delivery drone today, the DJI EV50, and it announced the aircraft’s existence by disclosing that it already flew to 29,072 feet (8,861 meters) on the north side of Mount Everest. The fixed-wing cargo aircraft carried ozone-measuring equipment for Peking University researchers over a 12-day campaign in the Qomolangma National Nature…
Filmmaker Reilín Joey has published a behind-the-scenes breakdown of the official DJI Osmo Pocket 4 launch commercial, a production he directed and edited across 12 locations on two continents. The video, released July 7, 2026, follows the shoot from safari scenes near Cape Town, South Africa, to a typhoon-compressed schedule in Hong Kong, and closes…
DJI released the DJI AP100 Parachute for the Matrice 400 on July 8, 2026, a rear-mounted recovery system that deploys in under 600 milliseconds and brings the aircraft down at less than 5 meters per second (16.4 feet per second). The launch landed in the 8 AM EDT slot DJI had teased, under the tagline…
Emesent has raised $17 million (A$25 million) in new funding to expand manufacturing at its Wacol, Queensland facility and build out two software platforms: Cortex AI, its onboard autonomy engine for GPS-denied flight, and Aura, its cloud platform for processing and visualizing 3D data. The round pairs a $7 million (A$10 million) venture debt facility…
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