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Lowe's Now Flies Painter's Tape to Charlotte Yards in 20 Minutes
Lowe’s started delivering home improvement supplies by drone on Thursday, September 24, from its store in Matthews, North Carolina, a Charlotte suburb in the Mooresville-based chain’s home market....
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FCC Says $5B Flowed Into US Drones. Its Own Filing Counts Pledges
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told the Small Business Administration’s Defense Industrial Base Drone Summit on Thursday that President Trump’s policies have put “billions of dollars now flowing into...
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Amazon Tells Packed Westborough Room Its Drones Are Coming Anyway
Amazon told hundreds of people packed into a Westborough, Massachusetts, hotel on Wednesday night, September 23, that it still plans to launch Prime Air drone deliveries from its Otis Street warehouse,...
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France and Italy Deny CIA Warned of Russian Ship-Launched Drones
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that the CIA never warned France of a Russian plan to launch explosive drones from merchant ships in the Mediterranean. Italy’s defense minister, Guido...
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Skydio's 100 mph F10 Debuts at Ascend, Where 'Lobbying' Is Profanity
Skydio unveiled the F10 Lightrunner, a fixed-wing drone that takes off and lands on its own from a robotic dock, during the Ascend 2026 keynote on September 23. CEO Adam Bry introduced it on stage in...
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Tekever Hits $6.4 Billion as University of California Backs AI Drones
Tekever, the Portuguese-British maker of AI-driven surveillance drones, said Wednesday it has closed the first $580 million of a Series D round at a $6.4 billion valuation. The University of...
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Amazon Preps Tallahassee Drone Hub. Florida Law Gives City Little Say
Amazon is laying the groundwork for Prime Air drone delivery in Tallahassee, Florida’s capital. The company is hiring Prime Air Ground Handlers in the city at $27 an hour, has invited drone instructors...
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House Bill Moves FAA Drone Rules From The Box To Your First Power-On
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a bill on September 15 that would make every small drone manufacturer show new pilots a safety statement built to FAA requirements the...
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Orqa, KEF And Blue Arrow Beat GPS Jamming In Front Of Green Berets
Orqa drones flew a reconnaissance mission and a payload drop at Fort McClellan, Alabama, in late August while GPS and their communications links were both being jammed, according to a joint release...
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Insta360 Luna Pro Review: 8K Gimbal Camera Tested in Alaska Wind
This is the Insta360 Luna Pro, the latest iteration of Insta360’s gimbal cameras, and it was ridiculously windy the day I took it out to test. This video isn’t sponsored by Insta360. They did send me...
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Zipline Promises Ivory Coast A 300% Return, Not What It Costs
Zipline will build nine more drone distribution hubs across Côte d’Ivoire, the country Americans know as Ivory Coast, taking a single centre in Daloa to a network of 10 under an eight-year...
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DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Hits $572 on Amazon, a Price DJI Never Set
The DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Standard Combo is $572 on Amazon this morning, 18% off the $699 the listing shows struck through. Amazon flags it as a limited time deal, free delivery lands September 23 to 24,...
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FCC Bars DJI Chips From New US-Built Drones on October 13
On October 13, a Federal Communications Commission rule takes effect that blocks any radio device from getting an equipment authorization if it contains a logic-bearing hardware component made by a...
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DJI Neo 3 Leak Is Recycled Box Art, and the Vents Gave It Away
A DJI Neo 3 image went round X on Monday afternoon showing the drone on a wooden table beside its new controller, and the design in it did not add up. The motors look flipped upward, the battery...
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Dolomites Parks Ban Hobby Drones, DJI Mini 5 Pro Included
Denis Barbas published “Climbing the Dolomites,” a film of about three minutes shot on the DJI Mavic 4 Pro, to YouTube on September 21. It follows climbers across the range’s limestone towers this...
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DJI Spinoff Livox Halves Point Rate to Cut Robot LiDAR Cost
Livox, the LiDAR company DJI incubated in 2016 and still sells through the DJI Store, announced the Mid-360L on X on Monday: a cheaper version of the Mid-360, the 360-degree sensor it has shipped by...
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ABZ Opens Hungary Drone Plant, Its FCC Pass Hinges on a US Factory
ABZ Innovation opened a €7 million ($8 million) factory extension in Szentendre, Hungary on September 17, 2026, and its CEO told Bloomberg the same day that the company will start building drones in...
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Air Force Loses Shahed Clone Off Eglin, Fishing Charter Reels It In
A Pensacola fishing charter hauled a US Air Force drone out of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, and the drone is a copy of Iran’s Shahed-136. Hot Spots Charters captain Daniel Arsenault spotted the gray...
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Amazon Wants Drones Over 6 Massachusetts Towns. Not All Have Been Told
Amazon wants to launch MK30 delivery drones from the parking lot of its warehouse at 64 Otis Street in Westborough, Massachusetts, to homes within 7.5 miles (12 kilometers), an area of about 174 square...
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Amazon Drones Overwhelm Texas Suburb, NYT Says. FAA Signed Off In July
The New York Times went to the backyard pools of Richardson, Texas, and published the result Monday under the headline “It’s Raining Boxes.” One resident’s drone tracker logged 52 Amazon Prime Air...
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