Tag: drone
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DNA Testing, AI & You
DNA testing is quite the thing currently. Not exactly tech related, you may say, we say, see how you feel after reading. And, if you think this does not apply to you, think again.
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UPS Drone Test Successful
UPS, one of the largest delivery companies in the World is experimenting with some new tech! They have successfully tested a UPS drone that takes off from the Van and returns to it after delivering. The really cool part is that the van does not need to remain stationary and can continue to its next…
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Autonomous Flight in the Next Ten Years?
We live in a world where the future is looking increasingly like autonomous vehicles. It’s a future where driving your own car is more of a leisure pursuit than a necessity. We’ve already seen the leaps and bounds by a plethora of companies to bring self-driving vehicles to our roads. The adoption of autonomous vehicles…
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Just Eat to Roll Out Fast Food Delivery Robots in the UK
The days of the pizza delivery boy may be numbered thanks to the arrival of an army of robot food carriers. Fast food app provider Just Eat, in partnership with Starship Technologies, is planning to roll out the robots as a trial in the UK and some parts of Europe after successful deployment overseas where…
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Come Fly With Mi! Xiaomi Drone Set to Take Off This Wednesday
Many Xiaomi fans are left waiting in anticipation for further details regarding the Mi Drone after a teaser recently dropped suggesting the aerial gadget will be “flying in to town” as of 25th of May! The dark, sleek and somewhat mysterious looks keep to the usual refined Xiaomi style and the drone is set to…
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Marvel Fans Use a GoPro to Create Iron Man POV Video
With Captain America: Civil War blowing up at the box office with the long-awaited clash between the Star-Spangled Avenger and Ol’ Shell Head – Iron Man himself drawing massive numbers globally, Marvel comic-to-cinema characters have never been more popular. Obviously, being purveyors of all things tech we’re a mark for Stark and were really impressed…
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Drone wars – parrot hack
Citrix engineer, Rahul Sasi has found and exploited a backdoor in Parrot Drones (AR). The parrot hack allows the flying machines to be remotely hijacked. The Hobby hacker developed what he said was the first malware dubbed Maldrone which exploits a new backdoor in the drones. Rahul said the backdoor could be exploited for any…
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The drone has landed – Thanks to the Eagle
With the exponential rise in drones over the last couple of years, Marty’s view of the future above would probably not surprise many of us now. Move swiftly forward to 2016 and drones are being used in all kinds of ways; Amazon delivery, couriering contraband into prisons, aerial photography, high speed racing, military actions, to…
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Back to the Future Day – The 2015 Gadget Predictions That Happened!
To some today is only October 21st 2015. But to many of us this is more than just another date on the calendar, because according to popular 80s sequel Back to the Future II this is the day when Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) arrives in the time-travelling DeLorean from 1985. Yes, it really is…
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Facebook made a solar-powered boomerang to bring you internet
Facebook have spent a lot of time talking about internet planes (I think we should call them iPlanes, Apple will be ok with that right?), and it’s one of those concepts I never expected to go anywhere. Why on earth would Facebook, a corporation many see as evil be trying to get internet to unreached…
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Self Driving Cars May Cause Motion Sickness
There’s a lot of research into the new self driving car phenomenon coming from universities and manufacturers as the technology improves. For example, a new research project out of the University of Michigan Transport Research Institute, or UMTRI, who have looked into the problem of car sickness for the vehicles. We get car sickness, or…
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Amazon to Test Prime Air Drones in USA, Again…
The much talked about Prime Air service by Amazon has gotten mixed feedback from the general internet. Many people speculating all of the terrible things that will happen while some herald it as the next step forward in online shopping. Good news for Amazon Prime customers in the USA though, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)…