Drones

Nicholas Rehm may be a full-time aerospace engineer, but his success in constructing a DIY self-flying drone that avoids obstacles without standard GPS tech aboard still merits a standing-O. He also g...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, cash is not king. But cash flow is. At least that's the case in investing. Stock valuations are driven primarily by expectations of future cash flows.Investors, theref...

They arrived at night.In early September 2021, three UBC students left their car at the side of the road and started up the path deep into the forest. Overhead, the stars shimmered in the West Coast s...

Mid-range headphones are typically an exercise in compromise. In order to reduce prices, companies usually omit a few premium features or opt for cheaper materials. Sometimes there are sacrifices to s...

A quick Google search for “sharks” drums up a sampling of headlines of recent sightings. “Leopard Sharks Return to La Jolla Waters in Droves,” reads one, while another highlights a “cluster of juvenil...

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is celebrating the success of its counter drone weapon, the Tactical High-power Operational Responder (THOR), after bein...

Investments in African firms across different sectors doubled in 2021 as global investors sought to tap into the growing opportunities on the continent.According to the latest Africa Investment Report...

SYDNEY and VIRGINIA, ($1=1.41 Australian Dollars) — The United States and Australia are beginning to gradually implement an updated AI engine in their Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System [C-UAS&#093...

The pros make it look easy, but filmmaking with a drone can be anything but.It takes skill to fly the often expensive piece of equipment smoothly and without crashing. Once one has mastered flying, th...

During the COVID-19 lockdowns, most technologists switched to working from home. However, not all technology jobs could be done on a remote basis—many technologists who worked in hardware or manufactu...

What interesting tech did you use?The last series on plants was The Private Life of Plants, 25 years ago. Back then, you’d point a camera at a plant and try to predict what it was going to do. Usually...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers are using machine learning and high-performance computing (HPC) platforms to optimize data extraction from satellite and drone imagery.“The massive amo...

Drones for good is coming to northwest Scotland, where plans are afoot for the craft to make regular deliveries to Hebrides islands from a UAV flight center that will serve as a research, development,...

Engineers from the University of Southampton, and conservationists at Marwell Wildlife have successfully trialed the use of drone technology, as a new approach to assisting conservation efforts, write...

Pieces of a shattered Soviet-era satellite are visible in new telescope images after its destruction by a Russian anti-satellite weapons test on Monday (Nov. 15).The images were captured by Numerica C...