Google-Funded Drones To Hunt Rhino Poachers
Mother Jones reports: First things first: No, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is not using drones to vaporize poachers. But thanks to a five million dollar grant awarded by Google on Tuesday, the...
View ArticleBrace Yourselves, Drone Journalism Is Coming
Commercial airspace laws are holding back drone journalism, but it’s coming: The benefits for journalists are evident too, especially for those who are in the field, like many science journalists....
View ArticleCities Of The Future, Built By Drones, Bacteria, And 3-D Printers
Above: generative cities and architecture by Aranda & Lasch Futurist Chris Arkenberg outlines a possible scenario for urban planning and architecture: As complex ecosystems, cities are confronting...
View ArticleDrones Smuggle Tobacco Into Prisons
Georgia’s WALB reports: Trying to get contraband into a prison is nothing new, but there is a new method. This week, some creative crooks tried to get tobacco to South Georgia prisoners by using a...
View ArticleAmazon’s Drone Delivery Hoax Distracts from Working Conditions at Amazon...
James Ball writes that although Amazon’s drone plan is unlikely to happen, it did manage to minimize criticism of Amazon’s corporate practices during cybermonday: Bezos’ neat trick has knocked several...
View ArticleU.S. Drone Assassination Program Uses the NSA’s Cell Phone Data to Locate...
Here’s Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Schahill’s first article for The Interceptor, the first publication from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s new media company: The National Security Agency is using complex...
View ArticleToday in Drones: Weed Farms, Wi-Fi Hotspots and Graffiti
For the drone spotters out there: The Independent: Shropshire criminals ‘using unmanned drones and infrared cameras to find illegal cannabis farms’ – and then steal from the growers: One such man, an...
View ArticleMindful Cyborgs: Farm Drones, the Human API and More
I missed recording the latest Mindful Cyborgs, but Chris Dancy and Alex Williams talked about farm drones, the Human API, Moves (before it was acquired by Facebook!), the Indie Web and more. Download...
View ArticleDemocratizing Drones
Artist Ingrid Burrington talks about the problems with “drones for good”: The best possible scenarios for drone technologies being used in the future center on the question of who owns them? It’s...
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