Sunday, September 7th, 2014
RCMP say a drone was used to help locate a family that got lost in the woods. On Saturday at 4:30 p.m., two adults and their 17-month-old child entered the woods off the Highway 107 extension. The Dartmouth family got lost and called police around 8:30 p.m. A drone was deployed, and the family was found
Saturday, September 6th, 2014
At a time in Mr. Obama’s presidency when political, national security and sartorial critics are chanting, “You’re doing it wrong,” Marvin Nicholson, whose official title is White House travel director, is a trusted source of good vibes. A nonjudgmental figure who will never question the president’s double-bogeys or his shifting red line in Syria, Mr.
Friday, September 5th, 2014
President Barack Obama has named Megan Smith, a top Google executive who helped oversee some of the search giant’s most daring research, as the country’s next chief technology officer. Smith’s arrival in Washington caps off a lengthy career at Google. With the Google team, Smith worked on the company’s “SolveForX” community effort and its “WomenTechmakers”
Friday, September 5th, 2014
The French Defense Ministry on Sept. 4 strongly hinted that its own satellite imagery confirmed U.S. allegations of a Russian military presence in Ukraine but refused to say so directly. France is the only other NATO alliance member with its own fleet of optical satellites with sufficiently high resolution to distinguish between types of military
Thursday, September 4th, 2014
DigitalGlobe promised that the shortwave infrared sensor on its WorldView-3 satellite could see through smoke to track wildfires, and one of its latest images has delivered on that pledge: The picture, captured from an altitude of 383 miles (617 kilometers) last week, reveals the burn line around the Happy Camp Complex fire in California’s Klamath
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
Mobile phones have become one of the most important tools for anthropologists hoping to uncover the secrets of modern human behaviour. Every mobile phone call or text triggers the creation of a log that records the time and day, duration and type of communication of the message as well as the cellular tower that handled
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
Detailed assessments — regional, global, daily and seasonal — of land use and land cover are needed to monitor biodiversity loss and ecosystem dynamics and to aid in reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Satellite imagery is the best source of such data, especially over large areas. Observations need to be extensive, regular and
Monday, September 1st, 2014
Google’s announcement this week that they’ve been testing delivery drones caught the tech world by surprise. What wasn’t surprising to experts familiar with the industry is that Google conducted all of their aerial tests outside the United States. That’s because the FAA has utterly failed to create procedures for companies like Google to test their
Monday, September 1st, 2014
Galway start-up Disaster Tech Lab is teaming up with a company run by former military aviators to use drones in disaster zones to help save lives. The new venture will see the pair collaborate on building airborne wireless sensor platforms – the drones will be flown over a disaster zone to detect and geolocate signals
Sunday, August 31st, 2014
Jerry Paros of Paroscientific, a Redmond-based company that has produced almost 1,000 sensors for monitoring the seafloor off Japan, wants to parlay that success to monitor the submarine fault in his own backyard. Paros envisions a system like those off Japan, with a cable backbone running from Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino in California, and
