nbcnews.com — The nation's largest police department on Tuesday announced that it will soon deploy a newly acquired fleet of 14 drones to assist with emergencies. And New York police officials went out of their way to assure civil libertarians that the unmanned aerial vehicles would not be used to peer into the l…

kstp.com — Called the Scan Eagle, the drone has a 10-and-a-half foot wingspan, it weighs up to 50 pounds when it starts and has to be catapulted into the air..The drone spent six days flying over the containment line of the camp fire, using infrared cameras to find hot spots..

dronebelow.com — A group of authors aims to investigate the potential antenna scenarios for disposable drones which may one day be fully fabricated using inkjet printing technology – simulated using CST Microwave Studio and comparing them with experimental results.

c4isrnet.com — Sandia Labs, together with the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, is working on a novel drone-detection technique. Sandia’s method is video-based. Called “temporal frequency analysis,” it analyzes pixel fluctuations in recorded footage of a drone, and then applies …

petapixel.com — We’ve seen various methods of dealing with drones, including bigger drones with nets, special shotgun shells, bazookas, futuristic jammer guns, and even specially-trained eagles. A surfing event in Hawaii took a different approach: as seen in the video above, it knocked a drone out of the air using …

9to5google.com — Back in July, Wing graduated from X to become its own Alphabet company. The drone delivery division is expanding to Europe with a trial in Finland this spring.

atimes.com — Elbit Systems, the listed Israeli defense group, is set to revolutionize the US agriculture industry through its Fargo, North Dakota, pilot program that uses a military-grade unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for crop surveillance.

swissinfo.ch — The Swiss Post is expanding its drone delivery system, transporting laboratory samples between two hospitals in Zurich.

brookings.edu — Jack Karsten and Darrell West review how first responders are using drones for faster and more effective emergency management.

digg.com — Drone Operator Captures Spectacular 4k Footage Of A Whale And Her Calf