NYPD Deputy Chief Salvatore DiPace spoke with CBS this morning about the potential of a terrorist attack using increasingly available commercial drones. Chief DiPace says that an attack with a chemical weapon or a remote controlled gun are of particular concern. According to CBS, the wake up call to law enforcement around the world was […]
“We kill people based on metadata.” Those are the first words you see when you open James Bridle’s latest web-based artwork A Quiet Disposition(AQD), but the source of the quote is Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA, and it sets an inescapably sinister tone for the project. Named after the Disposition Matrix — America’s “next-generation […]
The FAA is struggling to develop regulations for the use of flying cameras, commonly referred to as “drones,” as they become more and more widely used. Currently, there’s some confusion around what is legal to do with your drone and where, as demonstrated by the recent arrest of two men who flew a “drone” too close […]
Ukraine’s military is strapped for cash, so much so that they’ve been openly asking for donations to help in their preparations for further conflict with Russia and Russian separatists within the country. A group called the People’s Project (whose website is more than a little dystopian) took this fundraising to the next level, crowdfunding the […]
Check this band of drones playing “Thus Spoke Zarathustra,” “Carrol of the Bells” and the national anthem. See their sharply choreographed whirling, pulling and landing on electric keyboards, bells of some sort and a one-string electric slide guitar contraption equipped with a bass drum, a snare drum and two crash symbols. There’s even a very climactic GONGGGGGG […]
Here are some photos of Russian military doing things with their drones, in a completely unposed matter, despite that second slide looking like a Wes Anderson still. Russia’s Ministry of Defense put them up on their website, with a glowing article boasting about their currently-Kolomna-based Center for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, 30 years old and 180 military personnel strong. Ah, […]
“Unmanned aerial vehicle” is fine; so is “remote-controlled quad-copter,” I’d imagine. The industry that makes the pilotless flying robots most know as “drones” just doesn’t want you calling them “drones,” according to a Washington Post report. Why? Because “drone” conjures up the image of innocent people dying in Yemen and Pakistan, of surveillance vehicles snooping on your […]
Dronestagram, a new social network for the proud owners of unmanned aerial vehicles–not to be confused with a much less cheeky project of the same name–allows users to share their collective explorations in the realm of aerial photography, sharing their breathtaking photos of cityscapes, nature, sports, or whatever else may tickle their fancy, sans shameful Instagram […]
Remember Deer Trail, that small town in Colorado that considering giving drone-hunting licenses and award cash bounties to anyone who could prove they shot down a government UAV? The Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates the airways, has issued a response, which, unsurprisingly, amounts to “Uh, don’t do that, guys.” “Shooting at an unmanned aircraft could […]
The town of Deer Trail, Colorado hates drones, and has a plan to make sure no robotic eyes in the sky are snooping on its citizens’ lives: guns! We’re all for allowing people to protect themselves against surveillance, but this just seems insane: an ordinance proposed by Deer Trail resident Phillip Steel would allow the town to […]
