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Tech + Government: Military, Funding and Silicon Valley

Tech + Government: Military, Funding and Silicon Valley

Surveillance, Privacy, Drones and AI

articles and videos looking at drones, ai and surveillance applications

Wing - Drone Startup

articles and videos looking at drones and entrepreneurs

Boeing 737 Max - crash, scandal, and the Airplane, Aviation Business

a collection of articles looking at the history of flight, and the modern aviation industry

Competition between Airbus, Boeing and other Airplane Manufacturers

a collection of articles looking at the Competition between Airbus, Boeing and other Airplane Man...

Boeing and the Airplane, Aviation Business

a collection of articles looking at the history of flight, and the modern aviation industry

Drone Startups

articles and videos looking at drones and entrepreneurs

Drones, Airplanes and Regulations

articles and videos looking at Drones, Airplanes and Regulations

Drone Swarms

articles and videos looking at drone swarms

Drones

articles and videos looking at drones

Personal aircraft: Flying Cars, Air Taxis and Passenger Drones

Personal aircraft: Flying Cars, Air Taxis and Passenger Drones

Military, Robots, Drones and AI

articles and videos looking at drones, ai and military applications

Drone Deliveries

articles and videos looking at the potential of using drones for delivery of goods

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Article

Portugal's Tekever raises $74M for dual-use drone platform deployed to Ukraine | TechCrunch

Dual-use drone startup Tekever has raised €70 million ($74 million) to develop its product and expand into new markets, specifically the U.S.. The ... (2024)


Article

Why the Pentagon wants to build thousands of easily replaceable, AI-enabled drones

Ukraine’s drone innovations have changed how the US is planning for a war with China. (2024)


Article

Technology and the state. Surveillance capitalism

Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping. Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police | Business (2023)


Article

Pivotal: Flying cars. No license necessary

A flying car that anyone can use will soon go on sale. No pilot’s licence will be necessary to fly the Helix | Science & technology (2023)


Article

How Ukrainians modify civilian drones for military use

Drones and 3d printing: In the fight against Russian invaders, ingenuity pays | Science & technology (2023)


Article

Killer Drone Autonomously 'Hunted Down' a Human Target, UN Experts Say

A “lethal” weaponized drone “hunted down” and “remotely engaged” human targets without its handlers’ say-so during a conflict in Libya last year, a... (2021)


Article

UM PhD student hopes his silent drone will be an urban cargo delivery game changer

“Innovative, bold, and, what’s most exciting, silent.” This is how Tomas Pribanic, CEO and Founder of Undefined Technologies, describes his first-o... (2021)


Article

‘Flying taxi’ startup Volocopter picks up another $241M, says service is now two years out – TechCrunch

In a year where mass transit on airplanes, trains and buses has had lower traveler numbers in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the startup... (2021)


Article

US drone firm Skydio valued at $1 billion as government freezes out Chinese competition - The Verge

California-based Skydio has become the first US drone maker to be valued at more than $1 billion after a Series D funding round. The news comes as ... (2021)


Article

Electric jet aims for Lake Nona as the nation’s 1st ‘vertiport’ for flying taxi service

The German firm Lilium aims to make Orlando's Lake Nona community the first in the U.S. with a vertiport for sky-taxi service using vertical takeof... (2020)


Article

The Ring Always Home Cam Flies Around Inside Your House

Look at this freaking drone. (2020)


Article

Robotics - Robots that can walk are now striding to market

They will be able to go where people can, but existing bots cannot (2020)


Article

Amazon wins FAA approval for Prime Air drone delivery fleet

The FAA approval will give Amazon broad privileges to "safely and efficiently deliver packages to customers." (2020)


Article

IT'S TIME TO BUILD - by Marc Andreessen

Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effect... (2020)


Article

‘Nothing Kept Me Up At Night the Way the Gorgon Stare Did.’ - Longreads

The Gorgon Stare, a military drone-surveillance technology that can track multiple moving targets at once, is coming to a city near you. (2019)


Article

Water-dropping helicopters grounded due to illegal drones - Los Angeles Times (2019)

A firefighting helicopter had to be grounded several times overnight to avoid a drone whose pilot was apparently trying to snap photos of the flames. (2019)


Article

Wing launches drone delivery in Christiansburg, Virginia | VentureBeat (2019)

Google parent company Alphabet's Wing today said that it's kicked off a drone delivery pilot in Virginia for select residents. (2019)


Article

Hyundai is getting into the flying car business – TechCrunch (2019)

Hyundai Motor Group has launched a new air mobility division aimed at developing technology for the commercialization of flying cars, the latest co... (2019)


Article

Wing will test drone delivery in the US with Walgreens and FedEx

Wing, the drone delivery company that started its life within the Google X lab before spinning out into its own thing under the Alphabet umbrella, ... (2019)


Article

AI pioneer: ‘The dangers of abuse are very real’ - Nature

Yoshua Bengio, winner of the prestigious Turing award for his work on deep learning, is establishing international guidelines for the ethical use o... (2019)


Article

How drones and satellite images are measuring the forests used for carbon offsets

Pachama is building a verified marketplace for forest carbon offsets. (2019)


Article

Drop the Batteries—Diamonds and Lasers Could Power Your Drone | WIRED

Rather than have drones waste energy carrying their own power, LakeDiamond wants to charge them by firing lasers through diamonds at their solar ce... (2018)


Article

Goodbye Phones, Hello Drones – Tom Moss – Medium

I’ve loved gadgets all my life. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, it felt like ALL the best consumer hardware was coming from Japan. So when I got the... (2018)


Article

Will Drones and Planes be Treated as Equals by FAA? | Hackaday

Soon, perhaps even by the time you read this, the rules for flying remote-controlled aircraft in the United States will be very different. The Fede... (2018)


Article

Drone startup Airware crashes, will shut down after burning $118M || TechCrunch

Drone operating system startup Airware today suddenly informed employees it will cease operations immediately despite having raised $118 million fr... (2018)


Article

Coffee delivery drone patented by IBM

Drones could tell when people are tired and lower a coffee on an "unspooling string", IBM suggests. (2018)


Article

The Trippy, High-Speed World of Drone Racing | The New Yorker

Ian Frazier on the new generation of talented young pilots who like to fool around with quadcopters. (2018)


Article

The Complex Engineering of the Simple Hook That Could Make Drone Deliveries Real | WIRED

Engineers at the Google sister company Wing spent more than a few hours searching for just the right mechanism that would let their drones safely d... (2018)


Article

A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm To Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid

And that’s just one of the ways bad guys are putting drones to use, law enforcement officials say... (2018)


Article

Get Ready for the Silicon Military - Harvard

As the global defense industry embraces digital technology, it is creating a new type of warfare with different winners and losers... (2018)


Video

Anduril - Can Palmer Luckey Reinvent the U.S. Defense Industry? | WSJ

Military tech startup Anduril Industries is shaking up the U.S. defense industry as it is one of the few privately held technology companies findin... (2023)


Video

Amazing Invention - This Drone Will Change Everything - Zipline Drones

These folks engineering a much better way to deliver your basically anything. If you want to engineer your own creations with me every month, just ... (2023)


Podcast

Flying cars: (podcast) “Free as a bird”, an episode from The Economist on Spotify

Travellers have long dreamed of soaring above traffic jams. Those dreams may come true, in the form of passenger-carrying drones. We look at the co... (2018)


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