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Kevin Durant was logging his 16th NBA All Star appearance while the internet was busy staging a different kind of contest. This one involved alleged burner accounts, leaked screenshots, and an unexpected subplot about drones and Yahoo! Sports reported about it. The Houston Rockets forward suddenly found himself at the center of accusations that he…
As global militaries sprint through the AI arms race, China is leaning into a strategy that sounds less like a defense white paper and more
A political storm is circling one of New York City’s most historic industrial campuses, and at the center of it is a drone manufacturer. The city owned Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. will not renew its lease with Easy Aerial, a New York based drone company, according to statements made by local officials and later…
Sammy Azdoufal wanted to drive his new DJI ROMO robot vacuum with a PS5 controller. Just for fun. So he used Claude Code to reverse-engineer the DJI app’s communication protocols, built a custom client, and connected it to DJI’s servers. What came back wasn’t just his vacuum. Roughly 7,000 ROMO units across 24 countries started…
Michigan is no longer just talking about drones. It just secured the airspace to prove it. The U.S. Department of Defense has officially designated Michigan’s National All Domain Warfighting Center as a National Range for Deep Uncrewed Aerial Systems training, as reported by FREEP. That is a long title, but the meaning is simple. Michigan…
The DJI Osmo Pocket 4 is no longer just a rumor circulating in forums and Telegram groups. It has appeared in the real world. An official DJI retailer in Kuala Lumpur has shared hands on footage of the camera after a customer walked into the store carrying it. The video is now live on Instagram,…
Flying the mission was Sgt. Michael Matelski, one of three FAA licensed pilots in the department. He deployed a DJI Matrice 30T, a compact
Chinese authorities have criminally detained DJI’s former Vice President of Sales on suspicion of accepting bribes during a five-year tenure that coincided with the drone giant’s most turbulent period of global regulatory pressure. The executive, identified only by surname Yuan, oversaw DJI’s entire global sales operation from May 2019 through May 2024. The detention was…
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