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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.
Cleveland Clinic will fly prescription medications to patients' homes this summer using Zipline drones from its Beachwood campus, serving a 5-mile radius at no extra cost.
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.
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.
A Minneapolis police drone's thermal camera located 82-year-old veteran Bob Stewart in a creek ravine in nine minutes, after a three-and-a-half-hour ground search came up empty — footage the department released as the City Council weighs a 75-day Skydio Drones as First Responders trial.
AulGo, a pocket camera from Hong Kong startup TriLife, hit Kickstarter this week promising 4K video from a Sony sensor, six-axis electronic stabilization, and five recording modes for about $200. The campaign cleared its modest goal within hours and kept climbing. The pitch is easy to like: a 4K camera light enough to actually carry,…
Montgomery County, Maryland, is pulling the human spotter off the rooftop. The county police department said on July 6 that it is rebuilding its Drone as First Responder program around docked Skydio X10 aircraft at six sites, and flying them beyond visual line of sight without the observer the old setup required. This was the…
A University of Houston engineer says she has built a real-time monitor that keeps a quadrotor from crashing when a gust shoves it off course. Marzia Cescon calls it a “safety supervisor,” a software module that rides onboard the drone and watches its tilt and position while it flies. When the math predicts the aircraft…
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