Britain has “50 or 60” armed drones according to the director general of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), an armed forces think-tank with links to the British government. Professor Michael Clarke said that the UK is believed to have
A new report finds that use of unarmed drones for both civilian and military spying has skyrocketed in Latin America, as the demand for drones increases exponentially in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela. Author Marguerite Cawley notes that drones are changing
Gangs in the United Kingdom are using drones equipped with heat-sensing technology to locate their rivals marijuana crops to steal them. The hydroponic lamps used to grow the crops allow the drones to locate heat signatures so their owners can
HOUSTON, TEXAS (AP)–A Texas-based group involved in searches for missing persons around the nation filed a lawsuit on Monday asking a federal court to set aside an order that prohibits the nonprofit from employing drones in its work. Texas EquuSearch
The Pew Research Center recently conducted a “future shock” poll to learn how Americans feel about various impending technological developments. The generally serious nature of the poll questions is somewhat undercut by one finding that the technology people most look
In a Business Insider article, “Why Google Is Making Massive, Crazy Bets On Drones And Robots,” reporter Megan Rose Dickey explains that Google is expanding itself from the virtual world to the physical world by noting that Google has just purchased a
Tech-savvy criminals in Britain are using heat-seeking drones and iPads to locate cannabis farms in order to rob them of their crop. The Halesowen News reports that the “explosion” in the number of farms has led to a steep rise in
Google is moving forward this month offering its controversial Google Glass for sale to the general public. But the tech company is also delving into a more advanced application for Glass as well as moving forward to purchase a manufacturer
Breitbart Texas’ Contributing Editor and author of the forthcoming book Border Insecurity recently joined Fusion LIVE to discuss the market effects of American states legalizing marijuana with respect to Mexican cartels. “[Legalization] will be a big financial hit if marijuana
Attorney General Eric Holder admitted Tuesday that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was in the process of looking at the use of domestic drones. Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, questioned Holder during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, asking
The United States Border Patrol recently announced mass reassignments and post-academy deployments to the south Texas region of the U.S./Mexico border amid spikes in arrests. Though the action is considered long overdue, leading border security experts have praised the move.
Mike Judge saw the connection between music videos and couch potatoes, and a crudely animated show called Beavis & Butt-head was born. Judge’s comic crystal ball, as it turned out, was just warming up. Now, as his new HBO comedy
Hollywood’s Running Out of High Concepts? — — This is the kind of “high-concept” that every wannabe screenwriter has come up with and then was never able to execute or was wise enough to cast aside as too stupid. With
In a three-part series of outrageous invectives that seem over-the-top even for North Korean state media, the newspaper Rodong Sinmun is accusing South Korean President Park Geun-Hye of lying about their healthcare program, inflicting “malignant abuses” upon North Korea, and
The Boone and Crockett Club–“North America’s oldest hunting and conservation organization”–says that “no game scouted or taken with the help of drones” will be eligible for “its record program.” According to The Spokane Spokesman-Review, the club prides itself in recognizing
On March 27, Facebook announced that it was working on plans to use drones, satellites, and solar-powered planes to deliver wireless Internet service to under served areas of the world. “We’ve been working on ways to beam Internet to people
One thousand feet above the ground a helicopter and a drone came close to a catastrophic collision that would have sent the copter and crew hurtling to the ground. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says the crew was forced
Despite recent calls for greater oversight of Drone use 55 percent of British people support the use of the technology, with just 23 percent opposing them. If it was guaranteed that no innocent civilians were killed that level of support
The Nuclear Option columnist for the Washington Times and Breitbart News, and Drudge Report editor Charles Hurt told Breitbart News Saturday that 5,000 Environmental Protection Agency hypocrites ensconce themselves in an urban domicile in DC, know nothing about freedom-loving Americans,
The man tasked with enforcing the nation’s immigration laws found himself face-to-face with a self-proclaimed “illegal alien” Monday in a meeting with far-leftwing activists from the protest group CODEPINK. “I’m an ‘illegal alien,’ that’s how you refer to us in
Sergei Lupshin, a roboticist based in Zurich, revealed his new “leashed quadcopter drones” at at TED 2014. Lupshin calls them “Fotokites” because they look like a kite and do not require any special piloting skills to operate. They also provide
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps air force commander was reported Tuesday by Iran’s Fars news agency as saying that Iran’s military has its finger on the trigger to destroy Israel just as soon as it receives the order to do so,
There is a lot of daily drama surrounding Mexico’s drug war. In fact, I often refer to the frequent changes of command, violent territory grabs, and back-room deals between former rivals as something akin to As the Narco-World Turns. As
On February 22nd, the details of the arrest of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán were slow to emerge. The notorious leader of the Sinaloa Federation, the largest and most powerful drug cartel in Mexico, had been on the
A team of Hungarian researchers have created a swarm of ten drones that can “self-organize” in the air. The project was modeled on birds such as pigeons, “which fly in tight bunches while making adjustments and decisions.” Tamas Vicsek, a
On Tuesday in Milton, Texas, 41 year old Jesus Flores-Cruz was shot and killed after he threw large rocks at a U.S. Border Patrol agent. The agent claims his life was being threatened. Flores-Cruz, a Mexican citizen who investigators claim
The Washington Nationals and the Miami Marlins are using drones to film practices during spring training. Though the Nationals have said that they are using the drones for promotional vides, they may ultimately use the drones to help position their
A plan to install 350 miles of “virtual fencing” along the Arizona-Mexico border was approved by an Arizona House panel on Monday. The endeavor would receive $30 million in funding but could also include an additional $260,000 in donations collected by the state. Sen.
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) joined with other agencies across the nation to borrow Predator drones from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). This information was disclosed in a recent report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
The 1987 film RoboCop savaged the media, privatization and big, bad corporations. It was the ’80s, after all, and Hollywood couldn’t stop smiting the Reagan-era mindset no matter how the country was economically thriving. Flash forward to 2014, and a
The United Arab Emirates is looking to use retina-scanning drones to deliver official government documents like drivers licenses. On Monday, the UAE government revealed a prototype drone and will test it for six months. “Within a year from now we
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — That drone you might have spotted hovering and zipping around the Sochi Olympic slopes isn’t searching for terrorists or protesters hiding behind the fir trees. It’s being used to transmit live video of snowboard and ski
Actor Gary Oldman’s latest project bears a strong political subtext. RoboCop, the remake of the 1987 sci-fi classic, takes on corporations, drones and the fusion of technology and crime fighting. DenofGeek.com asked Oldman about the film’s relevance to today’s headlines.
In response to Selling socialists the bricks they need to bury themselves: I took my kids to see the film Saturday. My son, who is six and has played many of the Lego video games, was particularly excited about it.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say, and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to
Iranian state television aired a simulated airstrike on Israel and on American targets on Friday, as a warning of the kind of response that could be expected if either country attacked Iran’s nuclear program. The broadcast needs to be taken
The Times Of Israel: Iranian state TV on Friday ran a documentary featuring a computerized video of Iran’s drones and missiles bombing Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ben Gurion Airport and the Dimona nuclear reactor in a hypothetical retaliation for an Israeli
(AP) MONROE, La. — Paul Karlowitz has spent more than 40 years flying airplanes or teaching people to fly them, first as a U.S. Air Force pilot and now as a professor of aviation at the University of Louisiana at
In response to Latest Jobs Report Shows Decline in Healthcare Sector Employment: Now, hold on there, Liz! It seems like only yesterday that Democrats were saying ObamaCare would create a billion jobs in the health care industry. Oh, wait, it
According to Fox Connecticut News, the FAA is investigating the use of a drone flying around the scene of a fatal car crash. The official Hartford, CT incident detailed the crash events including officers’ statements that a drone was seen