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AdvertisementDubai: High above Yemen's rebel-held city of Hodeida, a drone controlled by Emirati forces hovered as a four-wheel-drive carrying a top Shiite Houthi rebel official turned onto a small street and stopped, waiting for another vehicle in its convoy to catch up.
Seconds later, the SUV exploded in flames, killing Saleh al-Samad, a top political figure.
The drone that fired that missile in April was not one of the many American aircraft that have been buzzing across the skies of Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan since September 11, 2001. It was Chinese.
Houthi Shiite mourners attend the funeral of Saleh al-Samad, a senior Houthi official who was killed by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on Yemen believed carried out by a Chinese drone.
Photo: APAcross the Middle East, countries locked out of purchasing US-made drones due to rules over excessive civilian casualties are being wooed by Chinese arms dealers, who are world's main distributor of armed drones.
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Drone Delivery Canada Integrates into Controlled Airspace in Moosonee and Moose Factory in Beyond Visual Line of Sight Pilot Project/
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TORONTO, Oct. 2, 2018 — (PRNewswire) —
Drone Delivery Canada 'DDC or the Company' (TSX.V:FLT OTC:TAKOF), is pleased to announce that the Company conducted numerous successful drone delivery test flights in the communities of Moosonee and Moose Factory, Ontario as part of DDC's Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) Pilot Project
'BVLOS Pilot Project.' Operations under the BVLOS Pilot Project were approved by both Transport Canada and NAV CANADA and were flown in the Class E controlled airspace surrounding the Moosonee airport.
DDC's BVLOS Pilot Project commenced on September 17, 2018 and was completed on September 28, 2018. The Pilot Project flight operations were conducted in both day time and..
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Advocado Co-Founders Lead Panel Discussing “Best Practices for Better Customer Acquisition” at LeadsCon ConnectToConvert
Increase customer engagement & ROAS by learning best practices for better customer acquisition from a panel of leaders in healthcare, media, research & AdTech.
I am excited to be facilitating this panel on best practices as our industry goes through such significant change”— Jeff Linihan, President, Advocado, Inc.ST LOUIS, MO, USA, September 30, 2018 /EINPresswire.com/ — Increase customer engagement and return on advertising spend (ROAS) by learning best practices for better customer acquisition from a panel of industry leaders representing healthcare, media, research & AdTech.
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Continue readingFalcon Eye drones hit flight milestone
Commercial applications for drones in aerial services are wide and varied.
Falcon Eye, Dubai based drone operator, is celebrating 10,000 flights for projects across the Middle East and Africa, covering nearly 34,000 kilometers since 2014.
The company wants to double its operations in the next few years as the market continues to expand, with an estimated market value of $1.5bn by 2022 in the GCC according to latest reports.
“Drones are becoming an instrumental technology for many industries such as oil & gas, utilities, telecom, construction, transportation, city infrastructure developments, agriculture, archeology, safety & security as well as photography & videography. Drone technology is quickly growing beyond its original military applications and is making a very big impact on the commercial sector”, said Rabih Bou Rashid, managing director of Falcon Eye Drones.
As the Middle East rapidly grows and innovates, drones will play an instrumental role in the development of multipl..
Continue readingFew Silicon Valley companies work with the Pentagon — meet one that’s helping the US build advanced military technology
Silicon Valley and the US military do not always see eye to eye — with the former trying to keep their products off the battlefield. There is still sizable group of companies that argue working with the government can help save lives.Hivemapper uses the military's own video footage to quickly generate detailed, three-dimensional maps and automatically detect changes the human eye cannot. Silicon Valley and the US military are not the chummiest of bedfellows. Companies such as Amazon and Google built their success on a culture of rapid innovation, while the Pentagon is clunky and risk-averse. And recently, a wave of anti-government sentiment has driven several prominent technology firms to cancel major Washington contracts.
But despite pressure from many in the tech world to keep their products off the battlefield, there is a less vocal but still sizable group of companies that argue that working with the government can help save lives, not take them. SparkCognition, for example,..