Now the US government has released parts of its We-Can-Kill-People-With-Drones memo, it's hard to miss why it was kept secret until now. Liberal professors and human rights groups and the UN were claiming an inability to know whether drone
The Los Angeles Police Department is waiting for approval before it begins using a pair of recently acquired unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor events in Southern California, but a local man has already beaten them to the punch.
In a press release, the partners called it a "research initiative" and said they will share data with the Federal Aviation Authority "as it considers regulations that will allow for the safe and effective operation of UAVs by media outlets."
Air Force leaders are in the early stages of planning the service's next-generation drone fleet that could reshape the Air Force's entire fleet and continue to lower the number of airborne pilots, service officials said.
The Obama administration justified using drones to kill Americans suspected of terrorism overseas by citing the war against al-Qaida and by saying a surprise attack against an American in a foreign land would not violate the laws of war, ..
The National Park Service is taking steps to ban drones from 84 million acres of public lands and waterways, saying the unmanned aircraft annoy visitors, harass wildlife and threaten safety.
For years, there have been plenty of conspiracy theories about the government building machines that control the weather, be it via cloud seeding or Nikola Tesla's weather weapon HAARP.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has waived the usual restrictions on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and is allowing the BP oil company and UAS manufacturer AeroVironment to use an AeroVironment Puma AE for aerial surveys in Alaska.
At a DUI checkpoint in Gardenia, California, Saulmon recently engaged in law enforcement monitoring using his DJI Phantom 2. Commonly known as a drone, the DJI Phantom is an unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, that flies with little or no pilot input.
Police may soon begin using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during manhunts, standoffs and other "tactical events", LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday.
Maine Civic Hack Day ( http://civichack.me ) was a 30 hour hackathon in Bangor Maine. Participants worked to provide solutions to various civic problems. Inspired by http://bitcoinnotbombs.com a drone was modified to drop bitcoin wallets on a crowd f
While it has always been legal to fly model planes, the Federal Aviation Administration and other government agencies recently picked a fight with the newest generation of model planes: drones.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has vowed to filibuster the nomination of David Barron to the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston.
The announcement was made in response to a growing debate over drone strikes on American citizens.
Paul told re
On May 4, the U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk remotely piloted system arrived at Misawa Air Base, Japan, where it is scheduled to operate from May to October 2014.
While in Maine, WeAreChangeCT met Derrick Slopey from the Maine Hacker Club who revealed his homemade UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) which he had pieced together using their 3D printer and schematics from DIY Drones website
A year after Obama laid out new conditions for drone attacks, U.S. forces are failing to comply fully with the rules he set for them: to strike only when there is an imminent threat to Americans and when there is virtually no danger of taking innocen
Would you like your pizza home-delivered by an unmanned drone? That may not be impossible in future, for a little-known pizza chain in Mumbai last week succeeded in making a test-delivery less than 3km away from its outlet in Lower Parel by using a
When US First Lady Michelle Obama appeared in a picture supporting the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria, she was praised for taking a stand against Boko Haram. But others quickly subverted her message and turned it into an anti-drone campaign.
Team Black Sheep, an R/C hobbyist group noted for various drone-related stunts (we especially like the video of their tearing up the skies of New York City), has released its latest video.