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South Africa’s Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) is progressing toward an anticipated promulgation date of March 31 for remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) regulations. 
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FAA Freedom of Information Act data for Certificate of Operations for UAV use in U.S. airspace.
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"James Tour and coworkers at Rice University synthesized a molecular car with four carbon-based wheels that roll on axles made from linked carbon atoms"
Jonathan Fausto's insight:
It is hard to believe that drones are also being considered and created at such a small scale.
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In the U.S. there's a specific license for driving a car. How about for flying a drone?
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Just about any model is an improvement over our non-functional approach to UAV use.
Andrew Brinkman's comment,
January 27, 2015 11:26 AM
$12k!!! This is pretty extreme price to pay to fly a drone. I think you can get a private pilots license for less.
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Time lapse video and 3D models give context to raw footage.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
More and more uses for UAVs every day. Their very quick deployment timeline makes them perfect for quick data in rapidly evolving situations mile political turmoil and natural disasters.
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The collapse of the government could impede American operations against al-Qaeda in the country.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
While we don't normally talk about military-type drones here on these pages, this is a useful example of where they pop up in the news. This is how much of the population of the world see and conceive of unmanned systems.
This current story involves the political turmoil in Yemen yesterday where the country’s president, a key ally of both Saudi Arabia and the United States in the war against Al Qaeda, stepped down under violent pressure from the powerful Houthis. The Houthis are now in control. This is a big deal because the Houthis are deeply suspicious of foreign intervention in Yemen. Saudi Arabia and the United States, meanwhile, have been deeply involved there for decades. On Friday, the US pulled some of its embassy staff out of the country. This could mean no more drone strikes and more space for Al Qaeda — which not too long ago fought a deadly insurgency in Saudi Arabia and once nearly killed a prince — to expand its power right next door. As if that isn’t enough, the Houthis are Shia, which means they are aligned with Iran. Iran is Saudi Arabia’s primary nemesis. Oh and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has just died. He was 90 years old. His brother Salman has now been crowned the new king. So you know, nothing controversial here or high stakes about this technology. Can you say political football?
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Demonstrators at a rally in Peshawar on Saturday vowed to stop NATO supply trucks unless the attacks ended.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
From 2013...
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An organisation using remote sensing and digital mapping to track illegal fishing activity in waters off Kiribati say a new ban on commercial fishing seems to be proving effective.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
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Consumer drones may get all the ink now, but 3D Robotics CEO Chris Anderson thinks the commercial market will be more valuable in the future.
Jason Miller's insight:
Provocative and inspirational piece. Anderson's thoughts are spot on. If you disagree, weigh in, please.
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The Federal Aviation Administration recently released a report detailing more than 190 safety incidents involving drones and commercial aircraft. In response, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) ha...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
A nice intro to why we need to rationally deal with this new technology.
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OneWeb Ltd will build, launch and operate the world’s largest ever satellite network. Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne programme will help make it possible with frequent satellite launches at a much lower cost and with greater reliability. Virgin Galactic has always planned to build a commercial sp...
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It's been a little over a week since the Philippines was rocked by Typhoon Hiyan, but the world is still coming to grips with the extent of the devastation. Via clare wormald, PIRatE Lab
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One day after a drone crashed at the White House, President Barack Obama reiterated the need to regulate the industry as the recreational and commercial use of drones expands.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
I have an idea: let's ban the entities trying to train people to use these devices responsibly and safely from being allowed to fly them. That will work!
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Security expert Rahul Sasi has discovered and exploited a backdoor in Parrot AR Drones that allows him to remotely hijack the UAV with the malware Maldrone.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Thanks hackers.
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A quadcopter crashed on the White House lawn early this morning. The rig, which appears from the released photo to be a white DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter with its propeller guards installed, hit the g...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Yep. This is exactly what we were worried about. Idiots ruining this for the bulk of responsible users.
See also:
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Drones and the New Ethics of War
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Another treatise on UVAs that only sees these tools as weapons of war. To be sure "war by robot" is a difficult and problematic evolution of the worst parts of humanity. There have been much better treatments of this, though. And works that don't rely on the New York Times as their central references.
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How are police ever going to catch a roboticized, autonomous drug mule?
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The UAVs are everywhere! Even in the real world Breaking Bad.
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On message boards and Facebook groups, he’s known as Trappy. Fellow drone hobbyists call him an “aerial anarchist” and marvel at the videos he’s taken with his five-pound foam aircraft of the Statue of Liberty, the French Alps and the Costa Concordia, the Italian cruise ship that ran aground in the Mediterranean in 2012. “Ask...
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Other FAA lawsuit updates:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/faa-hit-with-three-separate-legal-challenges-to-new-drone-rules
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Aerial images have been used in forestry for decades to perform a variety of tasks, such as forest inventories or mapping damage after disasters.
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Chief Charlie Beck says police could soon begin using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during manhunts, standoffs and other "tactical events".
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The Federal Aviation Administration recently released a report detailing more than 190 safety incidents involving drones and commercial aircraft. In response, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) ha...
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Every industry has its garage-creation myth. Here's mine, on the start of the personal-drone movement.
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Drones will be commercially viable and integrated into a variety of industries in the next five years.
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A fleet of marine robots is being launched in the largest deployment of its kind in British waters.
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South Africa is much more nimble than the U.S. is on technology-related policy. To be sure they have fewer airplanes in the air, but even they can figure out how to engage their stakeholders and create clear and obvious regulations