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If you own a drone you’ll need a ‘flyer’s licence’ from July

Drone 'flyer's licence' to be launched in time for Google's world-first delivery service in Canberra

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March 27, 2019 11:11:39

Video: A burrito is delivered to a Canberra home as part of the drone delivery trial.

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Can a group of angry residents in Australia take down Google's drone delivery project?

Noise from drone delivery service divides Canberra residents

Pass this quiz or your drone is grounded: Strict new regulations come into effect today

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Australia's aviation safety authority will establish a “flyer's licence” and mandatory registration for drones from July this year, coinciding with a world-first drone food delivery business to be run out of Canberra.

Key points:Drone flyer data will be kept in a database to track usersThose with drones of more than 250g will have to pass an online education courseA drone delivery service is set to be..

Drone ‘flyer’s licence’ to be launched in time for Google’s world-first delivery service in Canberra

Drone 'flyer's licence' to be launched in time for Google's world-first delivery service in Canberra

Updated

March 27, 2019 11:11:39

Video: A burrito is delivered to a Canberra home as part of the drone delivery trial.

(ABC News)

Can a group of angry residents in Australia take down Google's drone delivery project?

Noise from drone delivery service divides Canberra residents

Pass this quiz or your drone is grounded: Strict new regulations come into effect today

Map:
Australia

Key points:Drone flyer data will be kept in a database to track usersThose with drones of more than 250g will have to pass an online education courseA drone delivery service is set to be..

Ready for takeoff: Canberra drone base gets the green light

AdvertisementThe ACT Planning and Land Authority has approved Wing's plans for a household delivery drone hangar in Mitchell, marking another milestone in the tech company's bid to launch its world-first operation in Canberra's north.
Artist impression of drone delivery company Wing's proposed Mitchell headquarters
Wing has been given the green light to redevelop an existing warehouse on Vicars Street as a base for its fleet of delivery drones, which it hopes to launch into Gungahlin, Harrison, Franklin, Palmerston and Crace by the middle of the year.
The $1.1 million refurbishment will include an alteration of the warehouse's facade, reduction in the size of an existing store room, construction of a new pump and installation of “additional site services”.
The base would include food preparation areas for businesses delivering their products as part the service, and be staffed by about 24 employees.
AdvertisementIn its submission to the ACT Assmbly's dron..

Why commercial drones haven’t taken off yet

If you’ve been worrying that drones would be filling the skies over your head, dropping packages off day after day at your neighbor’s house, leaving food on doorsteps or photographing your every move, you can relax a little. At least for now.

The hype over commercial drones is, so far, largely just that. One of the people who contributed to that hype was Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder. In a “60 Minutes” interview in December 2013, he predicted that deliveries by drones could become commonplace within five years.

The fifth anniversary of Bezos’ prediction has come and gone, but widespread deliveries by drone are not yet a reality, neither by Amazon nor by any other company.

Regulatory thickets, technical complexity and the public’s skittishness have proved to be formidable hurdles. At a minimum, the unresolved issues include whether it is safe to allow drones to fly beyond a pilot’s visual line of sight, to operate at night and to fly over people.

But that doesn’t mean there’s likel..

Technology and political will can create better governance – How to fix democracy

How to fix democracyTechnology and political will can create better governanceFuller participation can create an ethic of co-operation, says Darshana Narayanan of The Governance Lab at NYU
Open FutureMar 22nd 2019This is the sixth, and last, in our series of opinion pieces on how to fix democracy.
CURRENT FORMS of democracy exclude most people from political decision-making. We elect representatives and participate in the occasional referendums, but we mainly remain on the outside. The result is that a handful of people in power dictate what ought to be collective decisions. What we have now is hardly a democracy, or at least, not a democracy that we should settle for.
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To design a truer form of democracy—that is, fair representation and an outcome determined by a plurality—we might draw some lessons from the collective behaviour of other social animals: schools of fish, for example. Schooling..

IoT solution turns drone into gas detection sensor

Leaks from natural gas transmission pipelines can present a significant safety hazard, as well as being harmful to the environment and extremely costly to producers.

ABB Ability IoT solution turns drone into gas detectorNow drones are to be put to work to sniff out gas leaks from transmission pipelines, thanks to a mobile detection system developed by ABB.

The system, which is capable of sniffing out even small leaks from a distance of up to 100m away, uses the company’s industrial Internet of Things (IoT) platform, ABB Ability, to allow it to upload signals to the cloud for immediate analysis anywhere in the world.

The system is based on technology originally developed to allow scientists to detect trace gases in the atmosphere.

To make the technology suitable for use in the oil and gas industry, the company reduced the size and weight of the system, allowing it to be flown by drone, said Doug Baer, global product line manager for laser analysers at ABB.

“There aren’t always road..

Universal Solar Technology, Inc. and Safe Bank Join Forces

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Universal Solar Technology, Inc. and Safe Bank Join Forces

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Universal Solar Technology, Inc. (OTCMKTS:UNSS)
HOUSTON, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, March 22, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — In a move that will expand its business plan and industry focus, Universal Solar Technology, Inc. (OTC Markets Pink: UNSS), has signed a Letter of Intent with the emerging online international banking firm Safe Bank, with headquarters in London, U.K./South Africa. The extensive plans of the partnership include banking and financial services products which will prove to be disruptive to some of the current traditional banking and financial services product offerings. However, the initial focus of the partnership wi..

Eyes to the sky: Valley Middle School elective gives students a taste of UAS technology

Eyes to the sky: Valley Middle School elective gives students a taste of UAS technology
John Stempinski, tech and engineering teacher at Valley Middle School, assists eighth-grader Bill Rassier in a UAS class this week. photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald1 / 3A microquad UAS flys a course through John Stempinski's UAS class at Valley Middle School this week. photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald2 / 3From left: Adin Staquet, Max Johnson, Quinn Roehl and Carmello Suarez work with microquad UAS this week at Valley Middle School. photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald3 / 3About a dozen eighth graders gathered around four small quadcopters in a Valley Middle School classroom Thursday afternoon.
Four students grabbed the drones' remote controls and began piloting them on a dizzying course around the room. As the small machines made their way through hoops attached to the ceiling, they hit a few stumbling blocks. Some crashed into walls or desks. Some narrowly missed students..

As flood risk spreads, prediction tech proves vital

As bad as the flooding in the Midwest following the bomb cyclone and snow melt runoff has been, it's about to get worse. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's U.S. Spring Outlook, issued March 21, nearly two-thirds of the Lower 48 states face an elevated risk for flooding through May, with the potential for major or moderate flooding in 25 states.

To help localities prepare, government, researchers and industry are tapping into new technologies to better understand the scope of climate-related events and alert residents in flood-prone areas ahead of rising waters.

For a longer forecast, NOAA – along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers – offers decision-support services through the “Long Range River Flood Risk” web page. The information is refreshed monthly and based on historical precipitation data, current soil moisture and hydrologic models. It show..

Andrea and Mauro Gilli on Why China Can’t Steal Its Way to Military-Technological Superiority

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