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News and views on surveillance drones in the US and military drones around the world. [Remotely operated by @xor, @trevortimm, and @starsandrobots.]

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Joined May 2012
Goodness gracious. This is bad for everyone and not worth it. youtube.com/watch?v=vIwIQ2uj…
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Amazon has applied to patent a beehive-like drone tower businessinsider.com/amazon-h…
A quadrotor cropdusting orange trees — youtu.be/RFTgLUoujQI the downwash from the props helps to stir the air and mix the spray
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Freaking insect cyborg drones
Some really remarkable use of Powerpoint in these FOIA docs on DARPA insect-drone cyborg work bkofsecrets.wordpress.com/20…
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Crashed drone in Somalia shows how the military hides its eyes in the sky theverge.com/2016/7/14/12187…
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U.S. Air Force funds research into fleets of mind-controlled drones thestar.com/news/world/2016/…
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A Drone Start-Up Explores Underwater nytimes.com/2016/06/27/techn…
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The great @mehdirhasan on "why drone strikes are ineffective, inaccurate and unsuccessful." amp.twimg.com/v/33656f0c-ebe…
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New government report shows where Homeland Security flies its 9 Predator drones gao.gov/products/GAO-16-671T
Drone captures 70 tiger sharks feasting on a whale iflscience.com/plants-and-an…
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Drone Captures View of a Devastated Syrian City nytimes.com/2016/02/04/world…
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Intercept has published images from hacked Israeli drone feeds, leaked in the Snowden files theintercept.com/2016/01/28/…
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Fusion's new TV show @TheRealFuture features a segment on "the best female FPV drone racer In America" youtube.com/watch?v=wvsX3k5-…
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Here's video of a man catching a fish with his drone. @xeni review: "very likely faked, but nonetheless fantastic." youtube.com/watch?v=U5Ho897t…
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