Drones, of sizes small and large, are becoming increasingly common all around the globe. Being commercially available, they also pose a significant security threat. This was manifest in a campaign rally lead by the German Chancellor when a drone hovered in front of her for some time and then crashed at her feet.
Google Glass has been around for a few months now and the Explorer edition of the gadget was mostly shipped to developers and hackers. Blaine Bublitz, from the coding company IcedDev, has now been able to hack into Google Glass and use it to control a drone through gestures.
Drones are increasingly being used for a whole range of tasks. And while such uses are still mostly confined to testing, it is expected that they would soon become legitimate, mainstream aerial vehicles. In anticipation of this, North Dakota has launched multiple initiatives to win the bid for the national drone test site.
Earlier, we have seen drones being prepared to deliver newspapers. Lately, a Shanghai company claimed that it uses drone to deliver cakes to its customers.
While the fear of being constantly watched by Big Brother isn’t anything new, nor are the methods taken to prevent such shady surveillance. But when one little town in the state of Colorado plans to hand out Drone Hunting licenses, one wonders whether paranoia has been taken too far.
Earlier you might have read that drones are being prepared to deliver newspapers or drones are getting ready to protect trains from being defaced. Here’a another buzzing news for you. Some researchers at the University of Southampton are building 3D printed drones which they believe would be able to hunt down drug-running boats at sea.
In the past, some security analysts had speculated that FBI may be using drones within U.S. in order to keep an eye on U.S. citizens. As it turns out, the speculation was right on spot, as is evident from the recent Senate hearing during which, FBI Director admitted that the agency was using drones for domestic surveillance.
The military use of drones to exterminate alleged terrorists has been fiercely debated in the recent past. Dronestream is a service that essentially aggregates all the historical data of drone strikes, as well as post updates in real-time about the latest strikes. A new API of the service now lets developers make extensive use of it.