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Zipline Adds Austin to Texas Drone Delivery Push
Zipline plans to expand its autonomous drone delivery service to Austin later this year, making it the California company’s third Texas market in under 12 months. Dallas-Fort Worth launched in August 2025. Houston followed in April 2026. Austin is next,…
Thiel and Sequoia Bet $570M on German Drones
Stark Defence, the Berlin startup that builds loitering munitions for the German military, closed a €500 million (roughly $570 million) funding round this week led by Sequoia Capital and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. The deal values the two-year-old company at…
DJI Matrice 300 RTK Found Hidden Hotspots in Clarkson Apartment Fire
A three-story apartment complex caught fire near SUNY Brockport in Clarkson, New York, and the fire moved through the attic faster than crews expected. When Brockport Fire Chief Adam Leggett looked up at the height of the building and realized…
EASA Moves To Drop Drone Registration To 100 Grams, And European Hobbyists Will Carry The Cost
EASA’s NPA 2026-103 would drop EU drone registration, training, and Remote ID to 100 grams, following the UK. Pros get lighter rules; hobbyists get squeezed.
Western Star Maps Nevada Tungsten With Drone Magnetics
A junior mining company just used a drone to map a Nevada tungsten property that nobody had explored since the 1950s. Western Star Resources, trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange as WSR, said on June 22 it is running a…
Marines Fly V-BAT Spy Drone From Warship in South China Sea
The U.S. Marines just launched a ship-based spy drone into the airspace China considers its backyard. Operating from the USS Portland with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, troops put a V-BAT vertical takeoff intelligence drone over the South China Sea,…
Chino Police Scale Drone Fireworks Enforcement To 65 Officers After One-Drone Test
The Chino Police Department will put several drones over residential neighborhoods this Fourth of July and pair them with 65 officers dedicated to illegal fireworks enforcement, a sharp expansion of a program the city ran with a single aircraft a…
Sacramento Sheriff Used A $999 DJI Avata 2 To Disarm A Suspect, And The Politics Are Sharper Than The Knife
A Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office pilot flew a consumer FPV drone into a garage, found a barricaded parolee holding a knife, and pulled the blade out of his hand with a magnet before any deputy stepped into the room. The…
FBI Has Seized 300+ Drones At World Cup Stadiums, And The Per-City Numbers Show Who Is Actually Getting Caught
The FBI has intercepted more than 300 unauthorized drones at FIFA World Cup 2026 venues across the United States in the first ten days of the tournament, a figure that converts a year of federal counter-drone spending into a hard…
China Unveils 55-Pound Laser That Burns Drones in 4 Seconds
China just put a counter-drone laser on a soldier’s back. At the Defence Information Equipment & Technology Exhibition that opened June 16 in Beijing, the state-linked contractor Harbin Xinguang Optic-Electronics Technology rolled out two man-portable laser weapons, the Lijian II…
Young Touts Indiana FAA Test Site At Spray Drone Field Day While The Aircraft On The Tarmac Stay Chinese
Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) spent part of June 8 at the Southeast Purdue Ag Center in Butlerville, watching agricultural spray drones lift off at the Indiana Spray Drone Association Education Day. The visit gave a sitting U.S. senator a close…
Urban Ray Pushes Medical Drone Logistics Forward
The headline is simple: samples flew from St. Josef Hospital to the Medical Care Center for Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology Ruhr in Essen through a fully automated hub-to-hub process. The useful part is what that implies, because the real bottleneck…