OPPO abandons custom chip design ambitions Asia In Brief PLUS: India gets blood from a drone; Toshiba sets a date; Australia floats metaverse standards Personal Tech15 May 2023 | 2
Cardboard drones running open source flight software take off in Ukraine and beyond 'CORVO' ships with tape and glue, gives defense orgs just-in-time drone capability for a song Defense Tech Week07 Apr 2023 | 86
Drones aim to undo Ukraine's landmine problem Feature Draganfly aims to help clear invaded nation of deadly devices Defense Tech Week05 Apr 2023 | 36
China aims to pair J-20 stealth fighter with 'loyal wingman' battle drone Reports suggest Beijing may speed past rivals with supersonic helper for its air superiority weapon Defense Tech Week03 Apr 2023 | 26
Japan Post closer to replacing snail mail with autonomous drones As Alphabet's Wing wants to fly millions of small packages by 2024 AI + ML14 Mar 2023 | 11
Beijing grants permit to 'flying car' that can handle 'roads and low altitude' X2 eVTOL doesn't have wheels but paves the way for sedan-like X3 Offbeat31 Jan 2023 | 38
BT in tests to beam down 5G coverage from the stratosphere Bet is to use UAV to plug not-spots in mobile coverage with 150Mbps across 15,000 square km Networks31 Jan 2023 | 49
FCC suggests licensing 5GHz spectrum to drone operators What's the WiFly password again? Legal05 Jan 2023 | 5
Swiss drone-busting eagle squadron grounded permanently Pilot project in Geneva ends potential danger to welfare of the birds Offbeat08 Nov 2022 | 41
Now you can't even scale Mount Everest without a drone buzzing overhead Video No chance of any peace, not even at 8,900 metres Bootnotes14 Oct 2022 | 17
How Wi-Fi spy drones snooped on financial firm Check your rooftops: Flying gear caught carrying network-intrusion kit Cyber-crime12 Oct 2022 | 35
Delivery drone crashes into power lines, causes outage Google-owned Wing said it was a 'precautionary controlled landing' – right into 11,000 volts Edge + IoT30 Sep 2022 | 42
Spotted at industry confab: Quadcopter equipped with Brit missiles Ukraine is so fond of Updated BAE falls over itself to stress it's only a hypothetical serving suggestion Offbeat26 Sep 2022 | 19
Teams of aerial drones might one day help to build houses Wasp-like technique could be used to 3D-print structures in that remote place you plan to retire in Science23 Sep 2022 | 19
Actual real-life hoverbike makes US debut at Detroit Auto Show 'I feel like I'm literally 15 years old and I just got out of Star Wars and jumped on their bike,' says test driver Offbeat16 Sep 2022 | 62
US Army drone crashes hours ahead of breaking flight duration record Airbus's solar-powered Zephyr nosedives after more than 64 days aloft AI + ML23 Aug 2022 | 52
UK lays world's longest autonomous drone superhighway And guess which ACDC classic will blare at the 2024 ribbon cutting? Offbeat21 Jul 2022 | 38
Microsoft's metaverse is for training autonomous drones Project AirSim can allegedly run 'millions of flights in seconds' Edge + IoT19 Jul 2022 | 5
North Koreans spotted harassing SMBs with malware In brief Also: Lawyers told to dissuade clients from paying off ransomware crooks, and more Security16 Jul 2022 | 16
Elon Musk’s brother buys Intel’s fireworks-replacing drone biz Yet another sign x86 giant has moved past Krzanich era to focus on core chip businesses Personal Tech05 Jul 2022 | 13
Behold this drone-dropping rifle with two-mile range Confuses rather than destroys unmanned aerials to better bring back intel, says Ukrainian designer Bootnotes27 Jun 2022 | 39
Nothing says 2022 quite like this remote-controlled machine gun drone GNOM is small, but packs a mighty 7.62mm punch Edge + IoT16 Jun 2022 | 44
DARPA wants to refuel drones in flight – wirelessly Boffin agency seeks help to shoot 100kW through the air with lasers, but contributors don't have long to deliver Edge + IoT14 Jun 2022 | 24
Majority of Axon's AI ethics board resigns over CEO's taser drones Flying weapons offered as solution to US school shootings Personal Tech07 Jun 2022 | 77
Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings For $50,000 annually plus building work, budget-strapped teachers can (maybe) zap gunmen, for the kids Personal Tech03 Jun 2022 | 192
Drone ship carrying yet more drones launches in China Zhuhai Cloud will carry 50 flying and diving machines it can control with minimal human assistance Bootnotes29 May 2022 | 29
Chinese drone-maker DJI suspends ops in Russia, Ukraine First Middle Kingdom company to take a stance says it doesn't want anyone weaponizing its flying machines Security27 Apr 2022 | 12
China rolls out bots to enforce ‘temporary closed-off management’ of Shanghai Drones, delivery-bots and robo-sprayers at work in locked-down megacity Personal Tech06 Apr 2022 | 17
Wing launches drone deliveries in the US where people actually live Everything's bigger in Texas, even the flying package-slinging robots Personal Tech04 Apr 2022 | 45
Scientists repurpose hoverfly vision to detect drones by sound Video It's a bug's life Science02 Apr 2022 | 18
Chinese drone-maker DJI denies aiding Russia's Ukraine invasion German retailer stops selling flying cameras from firm the US labels an arm of China's government Personal Tech29 Mar 2022 | 24
Alphabet's Wing drone unit inks supermarket delivery deal Payloads stuck at just 1.5kg, but noise has been reduced Personal Tech03 Mar 2022 | 30
India bans drone imports to help local manufacturers take off Amid much droning on about self-sufficiency, components will still be able to cross the border Personal Tech11 Feb 2022 | 24
Dog forgets all about risk of drowning in a marsh as soon as drone dangles a sausage It's not the wurst idea in the world Bootnotes21 Jan 2022 | 35
Heart attack victim 'saved' by defibrillator delivery drone* * And a passerby who happened to be a doctor Bootnotes06 Jan 2022 | 64
Remember the 'guy in a jetpack' seen flying close to passenger jets? Probably just balloons, says FBI Video Ah well, back to panicking over imaginary drones, then Bootnotes03 Nov 2021 | 23
Angry birds ground some Google Wing drones in Australia Between COVID and corvids, Canberrans can't catch a break Bootnotes23 Sep 2021 | 23
UK's Civil Aviation Authority hashing out rules for crash-proof cargo pods on drones Project wins £50k from government Edge + IoT22 Sep 2021 | 23
Ex-DJI veep: There was no drone at Gatwick during 2018's hysterical shutdown Bold words from Boston Dynamics' new man Edge + IoT15 Sep 2021 | 81
This is not the tech unicorn you are looking for... and other stories Roundup Another weekly digest of strangeness from around the world that you may have missed Bootnotes12 Sep 2021 | 19
RAF chief: Our Reaper drones (sorry, SkyGuardians) stand ready to help British councils There's no council tax infringement a Brimstone missile can't punish Edge + IoT10 Sep 2021 | 69
Robots don't smoke, says Alibaba, and that's why they deliver parcels so fast Rolling out test fleet of 1000 in low-traffic locations across China AI + ML24 Aug 2021 | 38
Cop drone crashes into flight instructor's airplane The plod needs a lesson in keeping air traffic controllers in the loop, it seems Bootnotes23 Aug 2021 | 30
South Korea to test grenade-launching drones Back on terra firma, ransomware rampage sees elevated security threat levels and giveaways to SMBs Security06 Aug 2021 | 31
Lawn care SWAT team subdues trigger-happy Texan... and other stories Roundup A crunchy compendium of strangeness from around the globe Bootnotes20 Jul 2021 | 84
An anti-drone system that sneezes targets to death? Would that be a DARPA project? You betcha Hotshot snotbot shows grotty terror plot buzzbots what's what Edge + IoT10 Jun 2021 | 73
In this round of 'Real life or Black Mirror episode', drones that hunt down humans by listening to their screams Plus: UAVs that can smell your poop – both for benign purposes, mind Edge + IoT09 Jun 2021 | 29
Three thousand sea birds abandon nests amid nature reserve drone crash hullabaloo Breeding season takes a tern for the worse Offbeat07 Jun 2021 | 28
That AI scanning your X-ray for signs of COVID-19 may just be looking at your age In brief Plus: DARPA wants to spend $1m on AI research studying information warfare AI + ML07 Jun 2021 | 7
Flying dildo poses a slap in the face for serious political debate 'Is that a dong on a drone?' Bootnotes04 Jun 2021 | 48
Tools down: Singapore’s training bots and drones to digitize construction work Research agency and housing board sign a deal as COVID-19 makes manpower and materials scarce Science30 Mar 2021 | 3
Boeing successfully flies unmanned autonomous military 'wingman' aircraft that may become pilot's buddy First test flight saw drone take off, follow orders, land by AI control AI + ML04 Mar 2021 | 46
Dangerous flying car drone zoomed into UK's Gatwick Airport airspace after killswitch failed Goodwood Festival of Speed took a nasty turn in 2019, finds AAIB Edge + IoT19 Feb 2021 | 107
Drone smashes through helicopter's windscreen and injures passenger Two feet sideways and it could have been the pilot: report Edge + IoT26 Jan 2021 | 56
Police drone plunged 70ft into pond after operator mashed pop-up that was actually the emergency cut-out button Updated Another unfortunate UAV episode for Sussex cops Edge + IoT19 Jan 2021 | 122
Hollywood drone pilot admits he crashed gizmo into cop chopper, triggering emergency landing Idiot faces up to a year in the cooler after FBI tracks him down from SD card found in prang wreckage Science16 Jan 2021 | 129
Intel accused by distributor of breaking promises, shipping subpar enterprise-friendly Falcon 8+ drones Tech slinger upset it can't unload $560,000 worth of flying Chipzilla gizmos Science04 Jan 2021 | 6
Sony launches ‘Airpeak’ drone division Hints at fun to come in 2021, for photographers and industry alike Science10 Nov 2020 | 10
Please, tell us more about how just 60 hydrogen-powered 5G drones could make 400,000 UK base stations redundant Gartner's finest – a former vulture – draws clouds over eyebrow-raising connectivity plan Networks04 Nov 2020 | 62
Brit startup would like to beam 5G connectivity down at you from hydrogen-fuelled drones And Deutsche Telekom's happy with this airborne base station plan Security27 Oct 2020 | 11
Boeing puts Loyal Wingman robot fighter jet through its paces... on the ground Rise of the Machines I feel the need, the need for 16mph taxiing in safety Science22 Oct 2020 | 45
Beware, drone fliers, of Scotland's black-headed gulls. For they will tear your craft from Mother Nature's skies Innocent survey UAS brutally smashed into roof by Stranraer seabird Security12 Oct 2020 | 38