‘We’re creating alien beings … and the reality is we only have a couple of years to adapt to that’ … computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton in Toronto, Ontario. Photograph: Cole Burston/The Guardian The ...

Thanks to the rise of military-style imaging drones, AI-integrated surveillance towers, and automatic license plate readers, police across the United States have more eyes in the sky than ever before.

Powerus Corporation has revealed a counter-drone interceptor that switches from vertical hovering to forward flight without pilot input. The US defense technology company introduced Guardian-3 at the ...

Drone is pitched as an alternative to weather balloons. Credit: Meteomatics Meteomatics has demonstrated its new quadcopter flying to 34,245 ft. The Strato drone is equipped with weather monitoring ...