dronedj.com — In this short but beautiful YouTube video, legendary surfer Derek Ho is almost hit by a Phantom drone as he surfs the Bonzai Pipeline.

digitaltrends.com — Want to know what that mysterious drone buzzing over your head is up to? A new system developed by AirMap, Google Wing, and Kittyhawk.io could soon be able to tell you -- by showing you a map of all local drone activity on your smartphone.

slate.com — Drones have become humanity’s preferred catch-all explanation for weird stuff in the sky.

directory.newequipment.com — FPT Industrial Supported Forvola breaking the Guinness World Record of the heaviest load carried by a drone.

q13fox.com — Police used new technology to catch an assault suspect on the run. About 1 a.m. Saturday, officers were called to the Swinomish Casino to a report of a man assaulting his girlfriend. The suspect ran off before police got there.

nbcmontana.com — Gallatin County is home to the busiest search and rescue team in the state, and it's using a new tool to find people -- a drone that isn't costing taxpayers a thing.

dailynews.com — The Los Angeles Police Department used a drone for the first time during a standoff last week between SWAT officers and a robbery suspect in Koreatown. LAPD Chief Michel Moore said Tuesday the drone was used to give officers a view inside a second-story apartment in the 300 block of Berendo Street, …

courant.com — Austin Haughwout, the Clinton man who designed drones that could fire a gun and shoot flames, and who has had multiple run-ins with police, was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail. In November, a Middlesex Superior Court jury convicted Haughwout, 22, of two counts of assault on a police officer and …

arstechnica.com — The Federal Aviation Administration proposed Monday to relax rules governing commercial drone operations. Since 2016, the FAA has allowed the commercial operation of unmanned aerial vehicles weighing less than 55 pounds under certain limited circumstances. New rules proposed this week would relax tw…

markey.senate.gov — In the wake of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) release of a proposed rule to allow unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, to be flown commercially over people and at night, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) called for strong privacy rules to be put in place before any rules are finalized.…