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Robobee – Robotic Pollinators to Replace Dying Bees
No, this is not a tabloid - it's real. In addition to the recent suggestion that we should "plant more flowers" to aid the declining bee population... Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is working
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America’s death wish
Again we hear (NYT ed., 4/6) about “the damage wrought by the gun lobby,” as though a cabal of manufacturers and other interested parties was responsible for the diseased mentality centered on gun violence
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Twelve civilians, including 11 children killed in Afghan NATO strike
A NATO airstrike has killed 11 children and one woman in the East of Afghanistan, report local officials. A house collapsed during the attack, causing the casualties and leaving six women injured. The civilians were
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China’s Drone Swarms Rise to Challenge US Power
China is building one of the world's largest drone fleets aimed at expanding its military reach in the Pacific and swarming U.S. Navy carriers in the unlikely event of a war, according to a
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DHS drones equipped to eavesdrop on Americans
The US Department of Homeland Security already has an arsenal of drones to be deployed for whatever the agency deems fit, but the actual capabilities of those vehicles exceed what many Americans may expect. The
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DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking
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The Rapidly Emerging Drone Technology Industry: Dream Technology or Orwellian Nightmare?
Regardless of the controversy that surrounds drone warfare use by the U.S. abroad, technology in the field of drones, also called Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAV‘s) or Micro Air Vehicles (MAV‘s), is growing at a
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Flying high: Iran seizes ‘another foreign’ spy drone
Iran said they took out a 'foreign enemy' drone during a military exercise being conducted by Revolutionary Guard forces. A Guard spokesman later clarified that the drone in question was in fact a part
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Drones are taking to the skies in the U.S
While a national debate has erupted over the Obama administration's lethal drone strikes overseas, federal authorities have stepped up efforts to license surveillance drones for law enforcement and other uses in U.S. airspace, spurring
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Is Your Town on the Map? FAA Releases New Drone List Of 81 New Applicants
Surveillance drones or unmanned aerial systems (UASs) raise significant issues for privacy and civil liberties. Drones are capable highly advanced surveillance, and drones already in use by law enforcement can carry various types of
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US media kept Saudi drone base secret for two years
It only came to light after a blackout on reporting agreed by the media and the Obama administration was broken by two US newspapers. The revelation that the US has been operating a secret drone
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Iran releases decoded footage from captured U.S stealthy RQ-170 drone
Iran has just released footage that proves it has, if not literally decoded, at least accessed some of the data stored inside the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 drone captured in December 2011. The video, that was
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Secret US assassination drone base in Saudi Arabia exposed
The existence of a previously secret US assassination drone base in Saudi Arabia has come to light amid President Barack Obama’s bid to install his counterterrorism adviser and architect of his covert targeted-killing policy,
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What Happens When Drones Return to America
A few months ago I borrowed a drone from a company called Parrot. Officially the drone is called an AR.Drone 2.0, but for simplicity's sake, we're just going to call it the Parrot. The
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US Spy Secrets Revealed! 1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World’s highest resolution video surviellience platform by DARPA
The ARGUS array is made up of several cameras and other types of imaging systems. The output of the imaging system is used to create extremely large, 1.8GP high-resolution mosaic images and video.
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Constant Surveillance of Entire Cities Now Possible with Latest Drone Tech
Apparently many of the civilian deaths by drones in Afghanistan are not attributed to the U.S. military being there on false pretenses, but rather to limitations in surveillance technology. The video below opens with
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The Unfortunately Long List of Children In Yemen and Pakistan Who Were Murdered By Drones
Whenever the mainstream media breaks news about a drone strike, they are always careful to say that it was “militants” who were killed, sometimes they even label the victims as members of “Al-Qaeda”. However, reality
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CIA drone strikes will get pass in counterterrorism ‘playbook,’ officials say
The Obama administration is nearing completion of a detailed counterterrorism manual that is designed to establish clear rules for targeted-killing operations but leaves open a major exemption for the CIA’s campaign of drone strikes
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Iran says captures two U.S.-made miniature surveillance drones
Iran has captured two miniature U.S.-made surveillance drones over the past 17 months, Iranian media reported on Wednesday. Several drone incidents over the past year have highlighted tension in the Gulf as Iran and the
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Iran arms all surface, sub-surface units with electronic warfare systems: Cmdr.
Senior Iranian commander Rear Admiral Amir Rastegari says all the surface and sub-surface units of Iran’s Navy are equipped with electronic warfare systems. “The Navy of the Islamic Republic of Iran has equipped all of
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Obama administration needs to explain drone strikes
The Obama administration, having killed a 16-year-old American boy, refuses to explain why in court. The boy, Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi, was born in Denver and lived there until he was 7, when his family moved to
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