Showing posts with label drones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drones. Show all posts
24 July 2014

Suitcase-Sized Drones Extend And Deepen OpenStreetMap's Coverage

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An increasing number of online services use location information. This places suppliers like Google, with its Google Maps, in a strong ...
26 October 2013

Turkish Police Shoot Down Surveillance Drone During Istanbul Protests

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As the growing number of Techdirt stories on the subject testify, drones are becoming a more familiar part of modern life. But their pr...
18 September 2013

How Low Can Drones Go?

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As we've pointed out in a few stories, drones aren't necessarily something to worry about. Like any technology, they can be used...
31 March 2013

What Happens To Drones When They Fall Out Of The Skies?

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For obvious reasons, stories about drones concentrate on what they can do while they are airborne. But they have to come down at some p...
10 March 2013

Here's A Use Of Drones (Nearly) Everyone Will Like

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It seems like every other headline is about drones these days -- drones being used in battle, drones being used by the police, drones as...
10 February 2013

Move Over 'TacoCopter': Here Comes The 'Internet Of Drones'

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As we know, the Internet works by breaking digital information up into IP packets which are then routed independently over the network, ...
11 November 2012

How A Drone Might Save Your Life

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There is a natural tendency to accentuate the negative when it comes to drones -- concentrating on how these "spies the sky" re...
18 March 2012

Drone Attack: How We Might Willingly Embrace The Surveillance Society

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It's striking how drones have passed from a mysterious weapon used to wreak destruction in distant lands to something that could well ...
07 January 2007

Real-time Google Earth

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Well, almost .