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Drone in the sky

Drones flown straight at aircraft to test collision avoidance tech

24 May 2019

A start-up has tested its collision avoidance system by flying drones straight at planes and helicopters over 7000 times —  so far there haven't been any crashes


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The race to build a space internet available to anyone, anywhere

1 May 2019

Tech billionaires are building a wireless, orbiting internet accessible in even the deepest jungle. The first satellites are already up - but do we really want it?


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We have to find a way to stop drones disrupting airports

20 March 2019

Drones near airports are grounding flights and leaving people miserable, but can we actually find a way to stop them?


A drone's eye view of a forest

Police drones with lasers could help find a murder victim in Australia

26 February 2019

The Australian Federal Police wants to use drones equipped with lasers to find a buried body in a murder case


The drone’s tail, propeller and wings unfold after launch

The US plans to launch swarms of attack drones from robo-submarines

12 February 2019

The US Navy has a project that plans to use an autonomous submarine to launch a swarm of attack drones from underwater


Jura mountains

Dan Holdsworth captures a vanishing landscape in a point-cloud

12 December 2018

Armed with drones, helicopters and military-grade software, a British photographer has developed a new way to remember glaciers


Drone owners in India must get government approval before every flight

Drone owners in India must get government approval before every flight

11 December 2018

A law designed to open up civilian access to the skies in India overturns a ban on drones, but only by giving the government automated control over when they can take off


Serge Wich: How drones are conserving wildlife

Serge Wich: How drones are conserving wildlife

7 December 2018

Tracking declines in biodiversity in the tropics can be tricky – but drones and astrophysicists are helping conservationists to keep up, explains biologist Serge Wich


A person with a keyboard looks at a screen with CCTV footage

Search engine for CCTV lets you find people from their description

28 October 2018

Trawling through surveillance video for a suspect or missing person is slow work, but a new system can automatically match footage of people to their descriptions


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President Trump says the US will pull out of a nuclear treaty

24 October 2018

Donald Trump said this week that the US will pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, saying both Russia and China possess the missiles it bans


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