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Couple Says Drone Wine Delivery Was Just A Prank
An Aussie couple quarantined aboard a Diamond Princess cruise amid a coronavirus outbreak published a number of posts on Facebook stating they’d been delivered bottles of wine via a drone to pass the time. It was a great, lighthearted story in an otherwise tough week but they’ve since told ABC Radio it was all a…
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DJI Rewarded Bug Bounty Discovery With Legal Threats, Developer Claims
Bug bounty programs are indispensable tools for finding security vulnerabilities, and are used by major tech companies such as Google and Microsoft. Following an order from the US Army for personnel to stop using DJI drones due to security issues, the company launched its own bug bounty program. Now, one researcher says he found an…
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World First: Kakadu National Park, As Seen From A Drone
For the first time, drones have been used to record footage from the 20,000 square kilometre World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park. The Bininj and Mungguy people, traditional custodians of this land, granted permission for the footage to be shot, giving the world a bird’s eye view of the region.
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How A Drone Could Save Your Life
If you have a heart attack outside hospital in the future, you could be saved by a drone with a defibrillator attached rather than a conventional ambulance. Swedish scientists compared the response times of a drone and an ambulance for 18 flights and found the drone beat the medical team by an average of 16…