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Amazon gains FAA approval to fly drones even farther

Amazon is expanding its drone deliveries after receiving Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to make beyond-visual-line-of-sight deliveries. The company said the approval allows Amazon Prime Air to continue expanding its drone delivery service to more locations across the U.S. “We’re excited to share that the FAA has given Prime Air additional permissions that allow us to operate our drones […]

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Flying-vehicle startup signs deal with Air Force

Flying vehicle company Pivotal has signed a two-year deal with the U.S. Air Force to accelerate the testing and system verification of its eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) vehicle. The contract gives Pivotal access to test facilities, expert resources and numerous sites in restricted airspace. The Pivotal Helix is a tilt aircraft with eight fixed rotors and tandem […]

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Verizon Frontline: Cory Davis talks about carrier’s solutions at Interop 2024 exercise

Cory Davis, vice president of Verizon Frontline, discusses some of the critical-communications capabilities the carrier showcased earlier this month at the Interop 2024 event conducted earlier this month at Texas A&M University’s Disaster City facility. In addition to a wide range of deployable solutions, Verizon Frontline partnered with Qualcomm to demonstrate 5G Sidelink, the […]

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Robotic head-transplant surgery plans revealed

A biomedical robotics startup has introduced what it claims could be the world’s first robotic head transplant system. The startup, BrainBridge, said the procedure could offer patients suffering from terminal illnesses a new chance of life by transplanting their heads onto healthy donor bodies. Robots would carry out the procedure and use AI and molecular-level […]

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Peachtree Corners smart city rolls out IoT-driven traffic optimization tech

Curiosity Lab is rolling out traffic optimization technology for 5G-connected smart city Peachtree Corners in a new partnership with video software developer Network Optix. Under the partnership, the smart city will integrate Network Optix’s Nx Go solution into its IoT Control Room to collect data from traffic camera feeds and sensors installed on roads to […]

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Sony develops microsurgery robot

Sony has unveiled a prototype of its new microsurgery assistance robot, capable of assisting surgeons by performing automatic surgical implement exchange and precision control. Designed to be used in combination with a microscope, the robot can work on extremely delicate body parts, such as veins and nerves. The model made its first public debut at […]

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Millions of IoT devices at risk from flaws in integrated cellular modem

Millions of IoT devices in sectors such as financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, and automotive are at risk of compromise from several vulnerabilities in a cellular modem technology the devices use to communicate with each other and with centralized servers. The vulnerabilities in Cinterion modems from Telit include remote code execution flaws, including some that require […]

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Flying taxi carries first passenger; pilotless travel

Chinese eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) vehicle maker EHang took its first passenger for a demonstration ride in Abu Dhabi. The EH216-S pilotless vehicle took off from the Emirates Falcons Aviation Club with Mohamed Al Dhaheri, board member of Multi Level Group (MLG) and EHang strategic partner, as the sole passenger. The passenger flight followed demonstrations of the […]

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Ford hands-free tech faces probe after fatal crashes

Federal investigators have launched a probe into Ford’s hands-free Advanced Driver Assistance System, Blue Cruise. The move, by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), comes just a couple of weeks after it emerged that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was looking at two fatal incidents involving Ford Mustang Mach E models fitted with the technology. Now […]

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Nokia, NASA to launch 4G on the moon

NASA and Nokia are partnering to bring 4G to the moon, in a project to “pave the way for sustainable human presence” on other planets. SpaceX is slated to launch the lander carrying 4G infrastructure to the moon’s south pole later this year and the network will then be remotely controlled from Earth. The network […]

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Amazon gains FAA approval to fly drones even farther

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Flying-vehicle startup signs deal with Air Force

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Verizon Frontline: Cory Davis talks about carrier’s solutions at Interop 2024 exercise

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Robotic head-transplant surgery plans revealed

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Peachtree Corners smart city rolls out IoT-driven traffic optimization tech

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Sony develops microsurgery robot

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Millions of IoT devices at risk from flaws in integrated cellular modem

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Flying taxi carries first passenger; pilotless travel

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Ford hands-free tech faces probe after fatal crashes

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Nokia, NASA to launch 4G on the moon

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