The Federal Aviation Administration has anticipated that you and your loved ones are going to want to operate an unmanned aircraft, aka a drone, this holiday season. In order to keep you “off the naughty list,” as the organization puts it, the FAA has created a video under the banner of Know Before You Fly, […]
In a cooperative neighborhood Christmas light display that would make Clark Griswold green with envy, the residents of this southwestern U.S. suburb synced all their lights up to Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s classic track Wizards Of Winter. They then shot the whole thing with a drone. That’s one way around the FAA’s current restrictions on private drone flight: […]
A team made up of Ivy League students has built a drone from organic mushroom materials that can bio-degrade rapidly. The students from Brown, Spelman, and Stanford also say that in situations like space travel, where transportation of materials is always difficult, astronauts would simply need to bring a small sample of the necessary bacteria or […]
The Wall Street Journal claims to have a source close to the new drone regulation process being formulated by the FAA and the outlook probably won’t please hobbyists. If the Journal‘s source is correct, the new rules will “require operators to have a license and limit flights to daylight hours, below 400 feet and within sight […]
Street artist Flood and graffiti writer KATSU collaborate (pictured above). As Ferguson prepares for the grand jury decision in the police shooting of an unarmed black man, hundreds of people marched in Brooklyn after the police shooting of an unarmed black man. The New York Post reports on the harrowing ordeal faced by Katherine Silva […]
They took our jerbs!! In an unnerving development that crosses scary uses of A.I. and the elimination of humans ability to make a living, a tech company called Knightscope has debuted their new robot security guard, the K5. The egg-shaped bots stand about 5 feet tall and weigh 300 pounds. They are unarmed (for now) and are […]
The National Transportation Safety Board has ruled (PDF doc) that all drone flights can be considered illegal. For drone users, Tuesday’s ruling by an appeals board will be very important announcement to pay attention to. The FAA claims that it will release clear regulations for drones by the end of the year, but for now, […]
I’m not sure, but I sort of feel like teenagers who either drop out of high school or college to start up their own companies (or become one of the most notorious whistleblowers this country has ever had) somehow always make it. That is pure bullshit from me, but at least there is some measure […]
I fucking despise the iPhone game Bitcoin Billionaire. I can’t put it down. I’m already swimming in bits, my relationship is suffering, and I’m still going. It is a 5-star game that I rated 1-star, because I hate myself. Bitcoin Billionaire distills games to their simplest level: You mine virtual bitcoin by tapping the screen. […]
We know that drones are here to stay because, like all useful technology, we’ve found a way to incorporate them into porn. Ghost+Cow has produced Drone Boning, the world’s first porno shot by drones. Before you get too excited, though, the video is way more landscape porn than it is porn porn, featuring stunning vistas […]
