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Officials say Google will repay New Mexico nearly $1 million in economic assistance funds after announcing it was pulling a subsidiarity out of the state. The Albuquerque Journal reports New Mexico Economic Development Secretary Jon Barela said Monday that Google has agreed to repay that amount under clawback provisions. Mountain
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The Israeli defence forces (IDF) have drawn up the main design features of a "personal" unmanned air vehicle that will be carried by a large number of infantry soldiers in any formation of a battalion-level unit. The required micro-UAV would weigh approximately 2kg (4.4lb) and would have
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Security researchers have created a flying drone capable of sniffing out devices connecting to the internet. Researchers at security firm Praetorian created the drone using a custom-made tracking tool. Praetorian vice president Paul West Jauregui told Business Insider the tool can collect data on devices within 100 metres by tracking
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NASA engineers are developing a Martian quadcopter designed to fly in the Red Planet’s thin atmosphere and gather samples from sites inaccessible to rovers. The Martian drone, under development under the Extreme Access Flyers programme, would use a lander as a base to refuel and re-charge its batteries between
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A 700-mile-long airspace that stretches north from Oliktok Point -- the northernmost point of Alaska's Prudhoe Bay -- to about 400 miles short of the North Pole has been put under the stewardship of Sandia National Laboratories by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Federal
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A panel of military scientists is briefing senior US Air Force leaders on ways to make the defenceless General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper and Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk more useful in a war against a sophisticated enemy that has the ability to hunt and kill aircraft. The MQ-9 and RQ-4
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Panoptes Systems has introduced a sense and avoid capability for recreational unmanned air vehicles that offers protection over the intellectual property of hobbyist users. In an effort to ensure that every UAV is capable of avoiding collisions, the Aurora Flight Sciences-owned company has developed the eBumper4 obstacle avoidance system, which
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Israel is accelerate its search for a new maritime patrol aircraft, having decided against further life extensions of its current Israel Aerospace Industries 1124 Westwinds. "We will not invest in another upgrade of that old platform and will accelerate the search for an alternative," says a senior Israeli
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The U.S. has conducted its first strike on an Islamic State target by a drone flown out of a Turkish air base, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The strike Tuesday occurred after the U.S. began flying armed, unmanned aerial systems over the weekend out of Incirlik Air Base, a
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A drone flew over Mansfield Correctional Institution on Wednesday afternoon while inmates were outside in the recreation yard. A spokeswoman at MANCI said the incident remains under investigation. No further details are being released at this time as to whether any contraband was dropped in the yard. However, the yard
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The Department of Homeland Security issued a warning to law enforcement to be on alert for drones that could be used by terrorists after pilots at John F. Kennedy International spotted a third drone in as many days near the runway Sunday. A pilot of a Shuttle America flight from
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Facebook's aerospace team in the UK has completed construction of its first full-scale aircraft, called the Aquila, as part of its Internet.org effort. Aquila is a solar-powered unmanned plane designed to beam down Internet connectivity from the sky Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed in March that the