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Splash Drone Starts shipping in September. Yesterday we received final confirmation that 50 units of the Splash Drone Pro version will be ready to ship. This was the ($799 Reward) on Kickstarter. We're shipping this batch by air so it...

The Axis Nano Drone is a tiny new quadcopter created by Rochester, New York-based company Morrison Innovations that promises simple operation for first-time drone fliers. The UAV, which is up for pre-order through the Laughing Squid Store, features six-axis stabilization,...

In the latest sign of the importance of its drone program, Amazon.com Inc. has hired the former number-two executive at the Air Line Pilots Association to help with the project. Sean Cassidy, an Alaska Air Group Inc. pilot and former...

  DroneDeploy, a start-up that provides cloud-based software solutions for commercial drone operations, announced today that it has raised $9 million in Series A funding led by Emergence Capital, with participation from previous investors SoftTech, DataCollective and Angelpad. The investment...

ARPA’s latest drone program just took a turn for the better. The Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (TERN) is designed as a Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) flyer for the U.S. Navy. Like their avian namesake, TERN will be a sea-based...

  Electricity firm Commonwealth Edison, based in Illinois, has received permission from the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) to use drones for inspecting equipment, another step in the pilot-less aircraft becoming a mainstream feature of modern technology. For Full Story Click Here...

Facebook’s first test flights for solar-powered internet drone have been successful, the company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has revealed. The drones are part of Facebook’s internet.org project, which looks to bring connectivity to the two thirds of the global population...