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Fiction meets fact: Author publishes ‘Drones over Seattle’ as Amazon seeks FAA clearance

Consultant and contract engineer Richard Clark published his new work of fiction, “Drones Over Seattle,” for the Amazon Kindle just last week… Read More

Amazon asks FAA to allow Prime Air drone test flights

Amazon has filed a petition with the FAA asking the agency to allow expanded testing of the company’s Prime Air… Read More

Amazon’s drones still on track for take-off despite new FAA guidelines

Amazon’s experimental drone delivery project has not been grounded by new rules set forth by the FAA. The Federal Aviation Administration… Read More

Update: Amazon says delivery drones not grounded by FAA

Update: Amazon said in a statement that this will not affect their drone project because it applies to hobby aircraft,… Read More

High-tech peepers? Cops called after drone spotted outside of Seattle woman’s apartment window

Is this a new form of high-tech voyeurism? A building manager called police on Sunday after a Seattle woman spotted… Read More

No drones for you! National Park Service to ban unmanned aircraft

Too bad drone lovers. You may no longer be able fly unmanned aerial vehicles in your favorite National Parks. The… Read More

Zuckerberg details plans to use drones to blanket Earth with high-speed Internet

Mark Zuckerberg took to his personal Facebook page to detail plans to utilize drones, satellites and lasers to “deliver Internet to everyone.”… Read More

Drone pilot who beat FAA regs is skeptical about Amazon drone delivery

Amazon’s plans for a Prime Air drone delivery service captured the imagination of people who want their packages delivered by small, flying… Read More

Teledesic 2.0? Facebook looking to buy solar-powered drone maker Titan to deliver Internet access from the skies

Craig McCaw’s Teledesic raised hundreds of millions of dollars in the 1990s to build low-orbiting satellites that could deliver high-speed… Read More

Drone entrepreneur Chris Anderson is skeptical about Amazon’s drone delivery plan

SAN FRANCISCO – While he was thrilled to show off his company’s new drones at the Launch Festival in San… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Amazon Drones, Artefact’s ‘Juice Box,’ a beautiful app and a classic console challenge

We’re getting very futuristic on this week’s GeekWire radio show — starting with our thoughts on Amazon’s surprising “Prime Air”… Read More

Eric Schmidt says consumers shouldn’t have drones, even though Google wants to use them

In an interview with the Guardian, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said that consumers shouldn’t be able to keep drones… Read More

Geek humor: Parodies take to the skies after Amazon’s drone announcement

One of the great things about the Internet is that any news event of sufficient size will be parodied to… Read More

Amazon’s big surprise: Flying drones will deliver packages to customer doorsteps

Here is the big surprise unveiled by Amazon on 60 Minutes tonight: The company is working on an R&D project… Read More

Video: Protestors hijack Seattle police meeting on new aerial drone program

Well, this didn’t turn out the way The Seattle Police Department had hoped. Speaking at the Garfield Community Center Thursday… Read More

Drones over Seattle? Police to discuss unmanned aerial vehicle plan with residents

While they aren’t going to fly over buildings and fry computers with microwaves, drones managed by the City of Seattle… Read More