A collaborative, student-driven site devoted to the aggregation and exploration of drones and emerging drone innovation.

As part of a two-part course at The University of Utah, students from the Honors College and Department of Communication team up here to discuss salient drone news, both foreign and domestic. We invite you to join us.

Weekly News Digest for the Week of November 7, 2016

FCC Investigates Stingray Spies While DAPL Works in Secret at Standing Rock Georgianne Nienaber November 2, 2016 (Huffington Post) A ban on drones in the airspace around the Dakota Access Pipeline construction area was lifted Tuesday, November 1st. The resulting footage is a lot of construction, and a drill site with a scenic view less […]

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Drones and Their Effect in Modern Warfare

By Cameron Shonnard As the war on terror has grown larger, new means of warfare have continued to be developed by the United States military and the government agencies it works with (predominately the CIA) in order to best protect the development of democracy in foreign nations. Through their actions of attacking and fighting to […]

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Weekly News Digest for the Week of October 26, 2016

Report warns of ISIS developing drones for chemical attacks (Jamie Crawford, 10/20/2016) According to a report from the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at the US Military Academy at West Point, in an attempt to develop and implement new uses for drone technology in warfare at least four terrorist groups have programs in place to find […]

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WEEKLY DRONES NEWS DIGEST FOR OCTOBER 31, 2016

Dubai and Sharjah airports closed due to drone  October 29, 2016 by Roberta Pennington http://www.thenational.ae/uae/dubai-and-sharjah-airports-closed-due-to-drone Last night (10/29) a Dubai airport was closed for approximately an hour due to “unauthorized drone activity”. Just like we have talked about in class, it is illegal to fly a drone within 5 kilometers of a Dubai airport, (for […]

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Weekly Drones News Digest for October 24, 2016

TECH INSPIRED BY NIKOLA TESLA CHARGES DRONES IN MID-AIR. Kelsey D. Atherton. October 21, 2016 Students at Imperial College London have made the world’s first wireless flying drone. They were inspired by Nikola Teslas work and built off his tesla coils design. These students took a regular consumer drone and removed the battery from it. […]

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Weekly News Digest for October 16, 2016

Pentagon Confronts a New Threat From ISIS: Exploding Drones (Michael S. Schmidt and Eric Schmitt, 10/ 11/16) Two Kurdish fighters were killed by an Islamic State drone which marks the first successful use of drones by the Islamic State against enemy forces. After shooting down the drone the Kurdish forces were taking it apart when […]

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WEEKLY DRONES NEWS DIGEST FOR OCTOBER 3, 2016

FedEx’s Carter Talks Amazon, Drones, and Innovation (Micahel Sheffield, 9/22/2016) In an attempt to keep up with Amazon and their strides towards using drones to deliver packages, Rob Carter, vice president of FedEx, talked about the prospect of using drones as well.  Carter pointed out that one of the dangers of moving to drones as […]

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Weekly News Digest, September 19, 2016

Drone Surfing Hits the Waves (seeker.com, 9/12/16) Drones are everywhere in society, and now they are making their way even into our sports. A heavy-duty drone made by Freefly Systems (manufactures of various cameras and cinematic equipment) was able to pull a person on a board across the water using a tow rope. While the […]

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Weekly Drone News Digest

Mind blown: Alphabet drones to deliver Chipotle burritos, by Jessica Guynn September 8, 2016 Currently delivery burrito drones are being tested on the campus of Virginia Tech College. Before this drones where tested upon an open field but now they have been moved to this college. This system is a method for chipotle to deliver […]

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