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America now has roughly four registered drones for every registered crewed aircraft, and a public safety official is warning that the country has no agreed system for deciding which one moves out of the way. In a piece published June 24 in Homeland Security Today, Charles Werner, director of the DRONERESPONDERS Public Safety Alliance, laid…
Marques Brownlee, the YouTube reviewer known as MKBHD, has published a sponsored video on the Antigravity A1, the 8K 360 drone co-engineered by Insta360, and his verdict lands somewhere most sponsored content never goes: he spent most of the runtime selling the experience, then closed by naming two things he would change. Brownlee called the…
Two rival drone delivery companies have spent a year running a working air traffic control system over North Texas suburbs with no humans brokering the traffic, and the headline number is genuinely impressive: zero airspace conflicts across roughly 8,000 overlapping flights. Flytrex and Wing coordinate their aircraft automatically in shared airspace above Little Elm and…
A JetBlue pilot told air traffic controllers his Airbus A321 collided with a drone at roughly 3,000 feet on final approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport around 7:15 a.m. EDT on Monday, June 29. Flight 948 had flown overnight from Las Vegas and landed safely six minutes later at 7:21 a.m. A post-flight inspection…
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…
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