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UK Announces Registration & Safety Tests for Drone Pilots
UK drone pilots will soon have to register their drones and sit safety awareness tests, as the Department for Transport seeks to better regulate growing drone use ...
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CNN Gets First Closed Set Waiver
CNN Aerial Imagery and Reporting (CNN AIR), the media giant’s drone division, is the first organization to get a Part 107 waiver for flight over people for ...
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Whose Batty Now? Drone Strike De-bunked
SOCATA TB-10, Image By Huhu Uet (Own work) CC BY 3.0 Yet another widely reported drone strike has been de-bunked, with DNA testing proving the flying object to ...
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South Korean Government to Invest 1.2 Trillion in Drone Industry
Determined to be part of growing Asian drone industry, the South Korean government has announced that it will invest a further 1.2 trillion won (over $1 billion) ...
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DroneDeploy, SLANTRANGE, and Sentera Partner on Advanced Ag Solution
DroneDeploy announces new features, allowing growers to use their industry leading drone mapping platform with agriculture specific sensors, ...
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AirMap to Industry: Automated Airspace Authorization at U.S. Airports Coming This Fall
AirMap whose goal is to make “drones part of everyday life by building the airspace services platform to let innovation take flight.” has announced that fifty airports are ...
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MIT Researchers Develop Miniature Brains for Miniature Drones
Image: Christine Daniloff/MIT MIT researchers are working to create miniature brains for miniature drones – designing a computer chip specifically for the ...
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Canada’s Disappointing Drone Regs – DRONELIFE
Transport Canada has released a draft of new drone laws, which the world’s leading drone manufacturer DJI says could significantly limit the industry. “While DJI ...
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A Truly Adorable Drone Does a Serious Job in Space
JEM Internal Ball Camera taking a video（Credit：JAXA/NASA） What could be one of the cutest drones in existence is doing a serious job, taking pictures and videos on ...
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In Defence of DJI: Why Hackers Are Wrong to Play Games
Plenty of controversial drone industry issues can be found within the text of a single article from our colleagues at sUAS News, titled ‘Don’t be Evil DJI‘. We’re ...
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