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Walmart wants to park a drone launchpad in a North Carolina lot. More than 200 neighbors signed a petition to stop it. On Monday night, Lincoln County commissioners weighed whether the future of 23-minute delivery is worth the noise over Denver, North Carolina. It’s a small zoning vote, but it’s the exact fight that will…
Five Georgia high schools will soon keep drones waiting on charging pads, ready to fly at an attacker before police can reach the building. The state set aside $550,000 to test the idea this fall. The drones are piloted by people at a company in Texas, and they carry pepper spray, sirens, and strobes, not…
Getting a beyond-visual-line-of-sight waiver from the FAA has long meant waiting years and hiring lawyers. North Dakota just made it take 23 business days. The state’s Vantis network, the first statewide BVLOS system in the country, has turned the biggest bottleneck in commercial drone work into something close to routine. If you fly drones for…
A Chinese research team of the Northwestern Polytechnical University says it has built a drone swarm that keeps hunting even after you jam its radios and blind its cameras. Their paper, published in China’s top aeronautics journal, claims a 100% kill rate in simulation. That number deserves heavy skepticism. But the method behind it, an…
Vivid Sydney just pulled the plug on every drone show left in its lineup. The trigger came Monday night, when roughly 89 drones dropped out of the sky during the festival’s Star-Bound performance at Cockle Bay. Eighty-three of them hit the water of Darling Harbour, six more came down on the boardwalk, and nobody was…
Zipline plans 12 new Nigeria drone hubs by 2028 to reach 100 million people, but its paused Kaduna operation shows the political risk underneath.
Motorola Solutions buys counter-drone firm D-Fend for $1.5B, adding RF drone-takeover tech as the Safer Skies Act opens the US market to police.
After 30 days flying the DJI Lito X1, Shawn from Air Photography breaks down its LiDAR avoidance, 4K video, ActiveTrack 360, and sub-250g advantages.
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