Author Archives: The Editor

Building Future Air Taxis to See Through the Fog

The frame of an unmanned aerial vehicle is installed at the end of a 180-foot-long chamber filled with fog at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico

While the sun beat down on the New Mexico desert, inside, a dense fog hung in the air. In a special facility outside Albuquerque, a team of NASA researchers was working with the kind of fog that’s so thick you can’t see three feet in front of you. Continue reading →

US Treasury Identifies Eight Chinese Tech Firms as Part of The Chinese Military-Industrial Complex

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on December 16th. identified eight Chinese technology firms pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13959, as amended by E.O. 14032. These eight entities actively support the biometric surveillance and tracking of ethnic and religious minorities in China, particularly the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang. Continue reading →

Leonardo Cargo Completes ‘Middle Mile’ Drone Logistics Trials Programme

Leonardo has completed the first phase of its “Sumeri Moderni” drone-based-delivery tests in Turin, focusing on “middle mile delivery”. In logistics, “middle mile” refers to a product or parcel’s journey from the distribution centre to the individual retail store, usually involving moving heavy batches of goods. Continue reading →