#drones

#drones

Berkeley could soon start planning how to equip the Berkeley Police Department and other first responders with drones to track fleeing suspects, provide reconnaissance during standoffs and gain a bird's-eye view of disasters like earthquakes and fires, among other uses. A proposal from Councilmember Terry Taplin would task the City Manager's Office with developing an acquisition report and use policy for drones.

It's one of the reasons why we're significantly increasing our Defence Forces capabilities. We should never fool ourselves or convince ourselves that Ireland is immune from such attack," he said, adding that it is important the government invests in radar capability. "I like to think of it as a bit of a burglar alarm type of system that gives us a greater understanding and warning as to what's happening in our skies and that's why I think it's a really sensible and a prudent time to invest in radar.

SAN RAMON, Calif. (KGO) -- San Ramon community leaders are pushing for public safety reform and accountability from elected officials after a brazen jewelry heist that happened in the middle of the day. They are holding a press conference outside the Heller Jewelry store on Thursday at 11 a.m. RELATED: Why is California seeing 'unheard of' surge in violent jewelry shop robberies? On Monday afternoon, nearly 25 suspects, at least three of them armed, stormed Heller Jewelers at City Center Bishop Ranch.

Police are investigating the appearance of drones over the airspace in Aalborg, a city in the north of Denmark. The airport in the northern Danish city of Aalborg was closed on Wednesday, after drones were observed over its airspace, an airport spokesperson said. No information was provided on how many drones had been seen.

The rate of civilian deaths across Sudan has increased, the report says, with 3,384 civilians dying in the first six months of the year, a figure equalling 80 percent of the 4,238 civilian deaths throughout the whole of 2024. Sudan's conflict is a forgotten one, and I hope that my office's report puts the spotlight on this disastrous situation where atrocity crimes, including war crimes, are being committed, OHCHR chief Volker Turk said in a statement.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia had launched more than 3,500 drones and nearly 190 missiles against Ukraine so far in September, describing the onslaught as an aerial terror operation. Russian forces carried out a large attack on Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, killing a 41-year-old man, injuring at least 18 people and triggering several fires, regional Governor Ivan Fedorov said.

The drone, said Mingus, "is our IED of today" - a war-transforming technology that smaller powers could use to put big powers at a disadvantage. Ukraine has demonstrated this brilliantly over the last few years through its innovative use of drones to stymie the invading Russians.

It's part of a demonstration outside the National School Safety Conference. "We use drones to stop school shootings," says Justin Marston, the CEO of Campus Guardian Angel, the company selling the drones. In the event of a shooting, remote pilots fly the drones, housed at the school, at the shooter. They shoot pepper balls and run the drones into the shooter to debilitate them.

Donald Trump's second state visit to the UK will see a big policing operation led by drones in the airspace over Windsor, police have said. King Charles is to host the US president and his wife, Melania Trump, at Windsor Castle from 17 to 19 September, where they will be entertained with a ceremonial welcome and state banquet. A round-the-clock policing operation will be in place in the Berkshire town during the event, with a temporary order restricting the airspace from 16 September when the state visit rehearsal is to take place until 18 September.

lethal autonomous weapons, that is weapons that decide by themselves who to kill or maim, are a big advantage if a rich country wants to invade a poor country. The thing that stops rich countries invading poor countries is their citizens coming back in body bags, If you have lethal autonomous weapons, instead of dead people coming back, you'll get dead robots coming back.

"I can say that the demand for data is incredibly high, but at the moment, we are forming policy on how to organize this process correctly," said Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's digital minister, in an interview with Reuters published on Wednesday. But Fedorov's comments indicate Ukraine won't freely give out this data, which he called "priceless." Kyiv is "very carefully" considering how to share its records and footage with its allies, the minister said.

Throughout the unprecedented bombing campaign that has defined Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, Palestinians there have lived with a near constant, inescapable sound of drones. It's a sound that signals death could be close. Hind Hassan tracks how the Israeli military has dramatically increased its use of drones and artificial intelligence (AI) to surveil, track and kill Palestinians. In Gaza, this technology has produced a kill rate higher than any other 21st-century conflict.

The £118 million ($158 million) purchase will double the number of deployable Sky Sabre systems operated by Britain's armed forces, the MoD said, although critics feel that this is not enough. Sky Sabre is the name for the complete air defense missile system, capable of intercepting cruise missiles, aircraft, and drones. It is made up of three separate components: the radar, the command and control system, and the launcher with its missiles.

Ukrainian soldiers sometimes accidentally jam their own drones in efforts to stop Russian ones due to overlapping frequency usage, complicating electronic warfare efforts.

The Antigravity A1 introduces the world's first drone with native 8K 360-degree video capture, controlled via immersive goggles and intuitive hand gestures.

Guindo originally hails from southern Spain and has been based in Reykjavík since 2016, lured by the island nation's raw beauty, dramatic geology, and northern light.