Drone

We want weaponised urban drones flying through your house, says UK defence ministry as it waves a fistful of banknotes

£150k up for grabs if you can help create the dystopian future of warfare

Edge + IoT16 Sep 2020 | 62

Drone firm DJI promises 'local data mode' to fend off US government's mooted ban

Protectionist public policy prompts fresh focus on infosec fears

Edge + IoT10 Sep 2020 | 20

Sounds like the black helicopters have come for us. Oh, just another swarm of FAA-approved Amazon delivery drones

Imagine everyone placing 30-minute orders for stuff all day. In fact, let's turn to those who have lived under it

Science01 Sep 2020 | 63

You there. Person, corp, state. Doesn't matter. You better not shoot down or hack a drone. That's our job – US govt

DoJ, FAA, FCC, Homeland Security warning highlights legal mess

Science19 Aug 2020 | 33

Eagle-on-EGLE* violence: American icon sends govt-flown drone hurtling into the waters of Lake Michigan

*Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy

Bootnotes14 Aug 2020 | 34

Uncle Sam says it's perfecting autonomous AI-powered drone, vehicle swarms to 'dominate' battlefields

Don't panic... still in the testing phase

AI + ML11 Aug 2020 | 69

Oh deer! Scotland needs some tech smarts to help monitor its rampant herbivore populations

Drones and satellite imagery probably better than sending out four helicopters at a time – or counting poop

Science17 Jul 2020 | 41

Couple wrongly arrested over Gatwick Airport drone debacle score £200k payout from cops

Add that to the £790k wasted on Xmas 2018 shutdown investigation

Edge + IoT15 Jun 2020 | 66

Vietnam bans drone flights near all government buildings, borders and factories

Even the Fatherland Front Central Committee is a no-fly zone

Science15 Jun 2020 | 1

As Uncle Sam flies spy drones over protest-packed cities, Homeland Security asks the public if that's a good idea

Because nothing says freedom like a Predator circling overhead

Security11 Jun 2020 | 70

Unmanned drones to slash NHS delivery times to one-fifth of road 'n' rail transport

Scottish trial will courier PPE and COVID-19 tests to remote hospital

Security26 May 2020 | 31

Runaway Latvian drone found meditating in tree after shutting down nation's skies

It crashed the same day it went missing despite 3-day closedown and hunt

Edge + IoT22 May 2020 | 37

Railway cables overpowered errant drone's compass and flung it back to terra firma

25kV + lots of wiggly amps = big local magnetic field

Edge + IoT21 May 2020 | 68

Latvian drone wrests control from human overlords and shuts down entire nation's skies

Please phone us if you see our missing 26kg aircraft, say authorities

Edge + IoT04 May 2020 | 48

Police drone fliers' wings clipped to prevent them bumping into real aircraft

The Civil Aviation Authority giveth the CAA and taketh away

Edge + IoT20 Apr 2020 | 19

Sunday: Australia is shocked UK would consider tracking mobile data to beat pandemic. Monday: Australia to deploy drone intimidation squads

Updated Bloody poms are full of great ideas

Science31 Mar 2020 | 41

Delivery drones: Where are they when we really need them?

Amazon promised. Google trialled. UPS got a licence. But only 1% of retailers are interested because they're still mostly rubbish

Science30 Mar 2020 | 77

Drones intone 'you must stay home,' eliciting moans from those in the zone: Flying gizmos corral Brits amid coronavirus lockdown

Big Brother refitted for Big Hover

Science28 Mar 2020 | 86

Drones must be constantly connected to the internet to give Feds real-time location data – new US govt proposal

'Does it have its own satellite dish, sir?' 'You can tell your son it has its own satellite'

Edge + IoT02 Mar 2020 | 99

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a flying solar panel: BAE Systems' satellite alternative makes maiden flight in Oz

Spindly thing claimed to stay airborne for a year with 15kg payload

Edge + IoT17 Feb 2020 | 76

US government grounds drone fleet (no, not the military ones with Hellfire missiles) over Chinese espionage fears

Paranoid stance comes as Interior Department website falls over

Science30 Jan 2020 | 22

Metasploit for drones? Best of luck with that, muses veteran tinkerer

Black Hat Europe Been down this path and it ain't that easy, says man who knows

Security09 Dec 2019 | 10

Let's learn from drone cockups: Confidential reports service opens up to unmanned fliers

+Comment Manned aviation spreads its wings over growing young industry

Personal Tech29 Nov 2019 | 8

You're drinking morning coffee in 2019. These eggheads are in 2119 landing drones on their arms like robo-falconers

With the help of what looks like vibrating dinner plates

Science27 Nov 2019 | 26

Questions hang over Gatwick Airport after low level drone near-miss report

Whither the £4m drone detection system? Police? Security? Bueller?

Science20 Nov 2019 | 130

'Peregrine falcon'-style drone swarms could help defend UK against Gatwick copycat attacks

MoD offshoot names winners who dipped into £2m anti-drone ideas pot o' gold

Security05 Nov 2019 | 63

The UK's Civil Aviation Authority asked drone orgs to email fliers' data in an Excel spreadsheet

Plus: Solution to 250g drone weight limit is 249g drone

Science31 Oct 2019 | 58

Criminalise British drone fliers, snarl MPs amid crackdown demands

Geoblocking, weaponisation and more in Parliamentary committee's sights

Edge + IoT11 Oct 2019 | 145

Spin doctors: UPS gets permission to expand drone delivery fleet in the US

Close the window and put back the fishing net, it's only for hospitals right now

Science01 Oct 2019 | 20

Chinese sleazeball's 17-year game of hide-and-seek ends after drone finds him on mountain

Back to jail for people trafficker

Edge + IoT01 Oct 2019 | 33

Sussex Police gives up on £790k Gatwick drone shutdown probe

No new arrests, no idea what happened

Edge + IoT27 Sep 2019 | 37

Those furious gun-toting Aussies were just a glitch. Let's try US drone deliveries, says Wing

Updated Prepare for aerial droppings, Virginians

Edge + IoT20 Sep 2019 | 73

Eco-activists arrested by Brit cops after threatening to close Heathrow with drones

Five nabbed over conspiracy to commit a public nuisance

Security12 Sep 2019 | 137

Uncle Sam is asking Americans if they could refrain from slapping guns on their drones

Right to bear arms doesn't cover armed UAVs

Legal23 Aug 2019 | 110

Police costs for Gatwick drone fiasco double to nearly £900k – and still no one's been charged

Omnishambles just keeps on rolling and you're paying for it

Security16 Aug 2019 | 115

The sea is dangerous and no one likes robots, so why not send a drone on rescue missions?

UK.gov offers £990k for pilotless pilot

Security05 Aug 2019 | 21

You'll never guess what US mad lads Throwflame have strapped to a drone (clue: it does exactly what it says on the tin)

America. Fsck yeah

Edge + IoT19 Jul 2019 | 57

Well I'm looking to AI to save me, looking 'cos it's my design: Could you make my drone learn to fly hybrid?

Pssst. You don't need to manually code it, neural networks will do it for you

AI + ML17 Jul 2019 | 2

Drone fliers are either 'clueless, careless or criminal' says air traffic gros fromage

He's only in charge of fitting them into UK airspace

Edge + IoT27 Jun 2019 | 79

*Spits out coffee* £4m for a database of drone fliers, UK.gov? Defra did game shooters for £300k

Comment And guess who picks up the bill

Edge + IoT19 Jun 2019 | 108

Japan drops banhammer on drunk-droning for the sake of public safety

Have you appointed your designated droner?

Science13 Jun 2019 | 14

Now Chinese-made drones rubbing US govt up the Huawei: 'Strong concerns' DJI kit threat to national security

Memo warns of regime having access to American data – remind you of anything?

Edge + IoT21 May 2019 | 65

MoD plonks down £2m on table in exchange for anti-drone tech ideas

Slingshots? Hawks? Anything that will stop airports grounding planes during holibobs, really

Edge + IoT09 Apr 2019 | 67

In the West, we're worried about shooting down drones. In Russia, drones shoot you

Video Watch a flying shotgun blast capitalist scum balloon, socialist devil model airplane

Bootnotes30 Mar 2019 | 75

Google plonks right-wing think tanker and defence drone mogul on AI ethics advisory board

Most of the internet: Yikes

Legal27 Mar 2019 | 42

Our Skyborg (actual US govt program) will be just like IBM Watson, beams Air Force bod

Rise of the Machines No joke, that's what they've genuinely named a 'fighter-like' military drone project

Science20 Mar 2019 | 20

Strewth! Apoplectic Aussies threaten to blast noisy Google delivery drones out of the sky

Video By coincidence Chocolate Factory pulls Canberra drone trial

Science11 Mar 2019 | 63

Don't mean to alarm you, but Boeing has built an unmanned fighter jet called 'Loyal Wingman'

RoTM Unarmed, but let's be real – it's only a matter of time, isn't it?

Edge + IoT27 Feb 2019 | 123

British and US militaries' drone swarm hackathon definitely isn't about army tech

It's about fighting fires, not starting them, right defence bods?

Security13 Feb 2019 | 9

I am just a mapper: Solar drones take to the skies above Blighty

90 days without a refuel

Personal Tech12 Feb 2019 | 75

The most annoying British export since Piers Morgan: 'Drones' halt US airport flights

Talk about Jersey Whirl... Flying gizmos disrupt ops this evening

Science23 Jan 2019 | 48

UK.gov plans £2,500 fines for kids flying toy drones within 3 MILES of airports

Families playing in gardens targeted with new powers

Science22 Jan 2019 | 122

It'll soon be even more illegal to fly drones near UK airports

Mandatory registration and on-the-spot fines for fliers

Legal08 Jan 2019 | 79

LA Times knocked out, HackerOne slips up and – amazingly – router security still sucks

Plus, London Gatwick drone comedy quiets down

Security05 Jan 2019 | 23

London Gatwick Airport reopens but drone chaos perps still not found

Strange tale leaves 120k bods displaced during Xmas rush

Security21 Dec 2018 | 335

A few reasons why cops didn't immediately shoot down London Gatwick airport drone menace

Comment Risk of causing even more embuggerance is high, we repeat: high

Science20 Dec 2018 | 467