Posts tagged "uav"

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“The sky’s going to be dark with these things.”

Chris Anderson, on domestic drone growth

(via NYTimes.com)
Source: The New York Times
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poptech: Motherboard is hosting “Drone Day” at SXSW. Check it out.  With everyone at SXSW standing in line for something, it should make targeting much easier for the drone swarm.

poptech:

Motherboard is hosting “Drone Day” at SXSW. Check it out. 

With everyone at SXSW standing in line for something, it should make targeting much easier for the drone swarm.

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Paintball drone: I guess Skynet has to start someplace.

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Google Helps WWF Stop Wildlife Crime

Finally, a legitimate use for autonomous surveillance drones.

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Your government hard at work provoking the robot uprising.  

Your government hard at work provoking the robot uprising.  

Source: darpa.mil
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This Veterans Day, Beware the Dangers of Robot War

This Veterans Day, we need to turn away from the false promise of robot weaponry. For if we continue our infatuation with robotic spy and killing machines, we simply cannot with any degree of confidence predict a better and more peaceful future.

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The U.S. military now has more than 8,000 unmanned systems in the air and another 12,000 or so on the ground in its inventory, and they are used every day to protect soldiers in places like Afghanistan.

Tell me again the robopocalypse has yet to happen.

(via Foreign Policy)

Source: foreignpolicy.com
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Homeland Security Wants Drones for Public Safety, Doesn't Want to Tell Public About Them - IEEE Spectrum

Whether or not using unmanned systems for domestic surveillance or not is debatable, but the point here is that there should be a debate. If the Department of Homeland Security wants to make this happen without seeming all sinister and creepy about it, they need to keep things open and honest and let the public know, and decide, what level of surveillance we’re willing to accept for our own safety.

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A sign of the (end) times. (via Glimpse of the future: “Missing Drone” flyers - DIY Drones)

A sign of the (end) times.

(via Glimpse of the future: “Missing Drone” flyers - DIY Drones)

Source: diydrones.com
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How I Accidentally Kickstarted the Domestic Drone Boom by Chris Anderson

Ah good, now we know who to blame when Skynet launches its attack on humankind.