Amazon.com and others are eager to fill the skies with drones delivering packages at all hours. Convenient, yes, but it could transform – and not in a good way – our ability to make informed choices.
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Online shopping giants and logistics firms are trying to improve efficiency and cut carbon – knowing that doing so will reduce their operating costs while appealing to green-minded consumers.
A surprise intrusion by a drone on a Darwin woman skinny-dipping in her secluded backyard pool highlights the many weaknesses of current privacy and stalking laws.
LIfeguards could potentially have a new ally in the fight to reduce shark incidents: drones that can spot when a shark swims nearby, and automatically alert authorities.
Collecting pollen takes a surprising amount of teamwork.
Targeted killing – the killing of specific individuals usually performed by drones – is a globally expanding practice.
Drone technology is quickly evolving from a geeky accessory to multi-billion dollar industry.
Get a taste of a drone-enabled future by looking at innovations and explorations from researchers, students and employees at one of the nation’s largest university systems.
Tremendous technology is on a collision course with reality.
All over the country, novice drone pilots are launching their new Christmas presents skywards. But do they all know the rules? Here’s a primer.
Without a human operator on board, how can a drone steer clear of collisions? Technology from autonomous cars can help.
Rebel fighters in the latest Star Wars movie are helped by a droid that was captured from the enemy and reprogrammed. Could that happen in real life with today’s autonomous weapons?
What if your first contact with the Western world was witnessing an atomic test? This is the story of Nyarri Nyarri Morgan, told in stunning virtual reality in animation/documentary hybrid Collisions.
Over the next few years, drones are going to take to the skies en masse – and cities will need to accommodate them.
If Trump becomes president, he’ll inherit one of the US’s most dangerous military tools.
Microbial-based solutions are perhaps the best-kept secret in agricultural innovation.
Seagulls in flight are a nuisance no more.
Passionate disagreement over drone strikes obscures the fact that we actually don’t know much about how they affect U.S. interests.
Here’s the technology Amazon needs to get right for drone deliveries – and what it will mean for everyone else.
Technology poses a challenge to how we treat suspects and police society.
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Applied Ethics and Director, Security and Risk Research, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Reading
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Senior Lecturer in Design (People, Places, Products), Lancaster University
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Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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PhD Candidate, Department of War Studies, King's College London
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Professor, National University of Singapore
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Visiting Fellow, Strategic Studies, Griffith University
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Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Media, UNSW
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Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
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Chair in Science Communication & Future Media, University of Salford
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Ecologist, Adelaide University
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PhD Candidate in the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews