All the headlines from our Drones Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 25 2014 // The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to drag on for years, a senior U.S. defense official told Reuters on Friday, as an underwater search for any trace of the plane’s wreckage off west...
Apr 4 2014 // Mines without miners?Not quite. Still, a technology boom in robots, drones, driverless trucks and pilotless trains is beginning to reshape one of the world’s most labor-intensive industries, portending automation of...
Apr 2 2014 // Voting is underway in a small Colorado community that wants to issue licenses to drone hunters. Deer Trail’s town clerk, Kim Oldfield, said voting was steady after polls opened at 7 a.m. Tuesday, and results are...
Apr 1 2014 // Mississippi lawmakers have extended trade-secret protections to universities and community colleges by exempting materials tied to any commercial, scientific or technical research from the state’s Open Records Act...
Mar 11 2014 // State and local governments in North Carolina could use unmanned aircraft for law enforcement, hurricane recovery and monitoring wildlife, a new state report suggests.While the report issued by State Chief Information...
Mar 10 2014 // A judge overturned a U.S. regulator’s first fine against a drone operator, a ruling that may lead to more commercial unmanned-aircraft flights in the U.S. before rules are written to govern their use.Judge Patrick...
Mar 7 2014 // After a catastrophe hits, mobile units filled with adjusters are on site to evaluate property damage. Flash forward five years and an insured may never meet the property adjuster handling his or her claim. Instead, a drone...
Feb 27 2014 // A team of academic researchers equipped with a drone estimate that about 35 million gallons of coal ash and contaminated wastewater spilled into the Dan River earlier this month. Wake Forest University researchers released...
Feb 5 2014 // Georgia would take the first steps to regulating the use of drones through legislation under consideration in the General Assembly.Rep. Harry Geisinger, R-Roswell, has sponsored a bill that would provide for the lawful use...
Jan 27 2014 // New Hampshire could join more than a dozen other states in limiting government and public use of drones to protect citizens’ privacy.The House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee will hold hearings Thursday...
Jan 23 2014 // General Assembly members began learning more Tuesday about the emerging unmanned aircraft industry and are likely to debate soon what restrictions North Carolina could place on drones to protect people’s privacy.A...
Jan 13 2014 // The futuristic world of self-driving cars, eyeglasses that e-mail and trash cans that call for pickup is running into the old-fashioned pace of doing business in Washington.Companies from Google Inc. to Bayerische Motoren...
Dec 31 2013 // The U.S. government took a step on Monday toward opening the skies to aerial drones, authorizing six sites where unmanned aircraft can be tested for a variety of uses.The Federal Aviation Administration already had...
Feb 6 2013 // A conservative Oklahoma lawmaker and the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma are working together to advance legislation to privacy rights of Oklahomans in the face of rapidly advancing technology.State Rep. Paul...
May 29 2012 // Four former executives at Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s General Re Corp. and one at American International Group Inc. are in talks to settle a long-running criminal case accusing them of engineering a reinsurance...
Aug 2 2011 // Four former executives at Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s General Re Corp. unit and one at American International Group Inc. won the reversal of their convictions over a reinsurance transaction that prosecutors said...
Jun 18 2009 // A former business executive was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation for his role in an accounting scandal that cost shareholders of insurer American International Group Inc. more than $500 million.John Houldsworth,...
May 21 2008 // A U.S. judge who oversaw the trial of executives accused of helping American International Group Inc. inflate reserves said there was sufficient evidence to show the conspiracy started with a phone call from the...
Sep 18 2003 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based GlobeXplorer LLC announced an agreement with CDS Business Mapping LLC to provide online aerial photography for CDS’ insurance analysis packages. GlobeXplorer is a wholly-owned subsidiary of...
Jul 22 2003 // CDS Business Mapping, a provider in online hazard mapping, announced the release of its revolutionary, patent pending, Birdseye Geocoding™ technology. Birdseye Geocoding combines digital street files and aerial images to...