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The Electronic Frontier Foundation published a warning on June 26 that armed police drones are no longer a hypothetical, and that the absence of any federal law governing when American law enforcement can deploy force from a drone has left the question to the companies selling the hardware. The digital rights group, which has argued…
Only one of DJI's Pocket 4, Pocket 4P, and Insta360's Luna Ultra is legal to buy in the US. Specs, the 32-bit float catch, and the patent fight, compared.
Airbus and Kawasaki Heavy Industries signed a memorandum of understanding on June 26 to develop an anti-submarine and maritime patrol version of the Eurodrone for the Japanese market. The deal is the first concrete export pull for a European medium-altitude long-endurance UAV that has not yet flown. Japan joined the broader Eurodrone program in November…
Cherry Valley Police Department in Illinois used a Skydio X10 with thermal imaging, a spotlight, and a speaker payload to locate and guide three stranded people out of the Kishwaukee River on the night of June 25, 2026. All three were unhurt when the Cherry Valley Fire Protection District took them to safety. The Winnebago…
At a GNC nutritional supplement warehouse in Whitestown, Indiana, four small drones fly overhead every day. They count more than 2,000 plastic-wrapped pallets nobody wanted to count by hand. The aircraft come from Corvus Robotics, a startup building autonomous indoor flyers tuned for warehouse inventory work. Since GNC brought the program online two years ago,…
Arvada Police Department in Colorado used its new Skydio X10 Drone First Responder program on June 17, 2026 to track and arrest a shoplifting suspect who fled on foot from a Target store, the agency confirmed in a statement. The drone was already airborne when the call came in. A loss prevention officer at the…
Walmart is bringing drone delivery to Cincinnati through its partnership with Alphabet-owned Wing, planting an autonomous grocery flight operation in the same metro that houses Kroger’s global headquarters. The Ohio launch is part of the 150-store Wing-Walmart rollout announced in January 2026. That January announcement named Cincinnati alongside Houston, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Miami and…
DJI confirmed the launch of the Mic Mini 2S for July 2, 2026 at 8 p.m. local time, adding 14.5 GB of internal storage and 24-bit / 32-bit floating point recording to the smallest wireless microphone in the company’s audio line. The launch closes the biggest gap between the budget Mini line and DJI’s flagship…
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