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The Shared Tech Roots Of Silicon Valley and Israel’s Startup Nation

… Israeli technology companies have offices in the US. The tech … tanks in the 1960s, drones in the 1970s and … the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Weizmann Institute of Science … importance on developing new technologies within their research departments. …

The 7 Most Dangerous Technology Trends In 2020 Everyone Should Know About

… of the most dangerous technology trends:
1. Drone Swarms
The British, … testing how interconnected, cooperative drones could be used in … between swarms and how drones are used by the … of using facial recognition technology for surveillance and racial …

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Drone strikes on Saudi oil fields spike prices – New Europe

Geopolitical tensions and fears of longer-than-expected supply shortfalls led to Brent crude oil prices rising more than 1% on 19 September following the drone attacks on 14 September on the Abqaiq facility and the Khurais oil field in Saudi Arabia when Brent temporarily jumped over 20%.

According to Reuters on 19 September, Global benchmark Brent LCOc1 settled 80 cents, or 1.3%, higher at $64.40 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 pared earlier gains and ended largely steady at $58.13 a barrel, just 2 cents firmer.

The attacks on 14 September reportedly resulted in the temporary suspension of 5.7 million barrels per day of Saudi Arabia’s crude oil production, or around 5% of global daily oil supply.

“It’s not that major at the moment. It’s enough to give you headlines and give the market a fright but it’s not enough to actually change policy in terms of going in and expecting the price to rise dramatically,” Justin Urquhart Stewart, director at Seven Investm..

Kuwait – Bill seeks to regulate flying drone industry

FedEx, Walgreens team with Wing for drone delivery test

FedEx, Walgreens team with Wing for drone delivery test
By Glenn CHAPMAN
San Francisco (AFP) Sept 19, 2019

Drone deliveries are coming soon, at least for one Virginia community, as part of a pilot project announced Thursday by Wing, the unit spun out of a “moonshot” lab at Google parent Alphabet.

The drone service to launch in October in Christiansburg, Virginia, will be the most advanced real-world test of the technology to quickly fly items ranging from Gummy Bears to painkillers to customers, Wing chief executive James Burgess said Thursday.

“By delivering small packages directly to homes through the air in minutes, and making a wide range of medicine, food and other products available to customers, we will demonstrate what we expect safer, faster, cleaner local delivery to look like in the future,” Burgess said.

Joining the pilot project will be delivery giant FedEx, retail and pharmacy outlet Walgreens and local ice cream and gifts retailer Sugar Magnolia.

The Wing pro..

How hi-tech sensors on buildings, cars and in the sky could help keep Toronto’s air clean

TorontoHow hi-tech sensors on buildings, cars and in the sky could help keep Toronto's air cleanAcademics and industry came together at the University of Toronto this week to talk about better ways to monitor air quality and odours. Conference at U of T showcases the next generation of air quality monitoring The city of Toronto's public health officials say air pollution contributes to the deaths of of about 1,300 people annually. (Ramna Shahzad/CBC)High tech “super sniffers” using next-generation sensing technology and high-powered data crunching could help Toronto track down sources of odour and pollution, according to experts at a conference on air quality this week.
Some of the new systems were on display at the third annual Air & Odour Management Conference and Technology Showcase held at Hart House at the University of Toronto.
Recent U of T grad Omid Youssefi is a research and development engineer at Scentroid, a company that specializes in the manufacturing of odour..

Walgreens will start drone deliveries in a small Virginia town next month

Drone deliveries are finally coming to the United States in a very limited way.

The drone delivery service from Google’s parent company Alphabet will launch a delivery pilot in a small Virginia town next month.

Wing has partnered with Walgreens to deliver food, beverages and health products within minutes in Christiansburg, Virginia. The pilot will mark the first time a major tech company has made drone deliveries to homes in the US.

Wing CEO James Ryan Burgess told reporters on a conference call Thursday the test will help it improve the service and build relationships with communities. Wing has not said how many deliveries it will make per day, or how many of Christiansburg’s 22,505 residents will be eligible. Interested customers must live in select areas and can sign up on Wing’s website.

The company said it selected the town because it’s worked closely with the Mid-Atlantic Aviation partnership at nearby Virginia Tech, which is part of an FAA program to ease drones into the sk..

2019 Taobao Maker Festival | Drones of the sea, robotic bartenders and exoskeleton technology

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