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FAA Looks To Outlaw Use Of Drones Over Stadiums And Large Public Events

by Sean Knight - Wed, Oct 29, 2014

On Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration released an updated notice criminalizing the operation of drones or model plans over large sports stadiums and auto racetracks. According to the notice, operators who violate certain... Read more...

Facebook’s Internet-Beaming Solar-Powered Drones Are Coming

by Joshua Gulick - Thu, Sep 25, 2014

As Facebook and Google rush to connect the remaining regions of the world that lack Internet connectivity, they are increasingly looking to the skies. While Google has balloons in mind, Facebook is planning drones that will be able to fly for days or months at high altitudes, beaming Internet... Read more...

Google Takes To The Skies Testing Its Own ‘Project Wing’ Drone Delivery Service

by Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 29, 2014

If you grew up watching The Jetsons on television, you might have thought the future would be filled with flying cars. Instead, some 52 years after the original series first aired, the skies are filling up with delivery drones, not flying... Read more...

Drones, Glass, Implants, Driverless Cars, and Robots, Oh My: American Attitudes About Future Technology

by Seth Colaner - Sat, Apr 19, 2014

We live at a quizzical time in technology. The tech boom has revolutionized the world, and the innovations that are pouring out of brilliant minds are incredible in both their frequency and content. But there is also a backlash against a... Read more...

Air Superiority Battle Begins As Google Snaps Up Potential Facebook Acquisition Target Titan Aerospace

by Seth Colaner - Tue, Apr 15, 2014

There’s a new battlefront in the tech field, it involves air space and the Internet, and it’s an exciting front. Google and Facebook are forerunners here, and the former just snapped up drone maker Titan Aerospace, which the... Read more...

Facebook Working With NASA To Expand Global Web Connectivity Allowing More People To Poke, Share, And Selfie

by Seth Colaner - Fri, Mar 28, 2014

We’d bet that when Mark Zuckerberg drunkenly dashed off the original Facebook precursor in his dorm room, he never imagined that within a decade he’d be actively trying to connect two-thirds of the world to the Internet and... Read more...

Facebook In Acquisition Talks With Drone Manufacturer Titan Aerospace To Further Internet.org Alliance

by Seth Colaner - Tue, Mar 04, 2014

You have to hand it to Mark Zuckerberg: He is not screwing around when it comes to his ambitious Internet.org venture to connect the entire world to the Internet, at least if the rumors are true that Facebook is going to buy drone maker... Read more...

Lakemaid Beer Company Testing Drone Delivery Of Cold Ones To Customers

by Seth Colaner - Wed, Jan 29, 2014

Amazon is testing the use of drones to make deliveries in populated areas, but the Lakemade Beer Company of Stevens Point, Wisconsin is testing the idea of drones in decidedly unpopulated areas--namely, ice fishing shacks. “Our tests... Read more...

Google’s Eric Schmidt Wants Regulations for Civilian Drone Technology

by Seth Colaner - Mon, Apr 15, 2013

We don’t talk much about drones around here, but it’s certainly worth mentioning when Google chairman Eric Schmidt takes on the topic. In an interview with the Guardian (which was picked up by the BBC), Schmidt spoke about the... Read more...

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