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Boeing's Phantom Ray drone takes first flight

Boeing's Phantom Ray drone takes first flight

...Phantom Ray has its roots in the Pentagon's older, discontinued Joint-Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS) programme. That's a trait it shares... Read more

15 May, 2011 by Jonathan E Skillings

Unmanned planes edge closer to midair refuelling

...Northrop Grumman took a big step closer to autonomous aerial refuelling between unmanned aerial vehicles, the company said on Wednesday. Northrop Grumman has carried out... Read more

11 March, 2011 by Jonathan E Skillings

Drones join forces in swarm test

...Boeing has conducted a successful test of swarm technology designed to allow unmanned aerial vehicles of different types to communicate and work together A pneumatic... Read more

19 August, 2011 by Michael Lee

Photos: Farnborough air show demos the planes that fly without pilots

...The Sky-Y unmanned aerial vehicle is a demonstration craft built by Finmeccanica's Alenia Aeronautica... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Stephen Shankland
iDrone 3.0

iDrone 3.0

iDrone is a UAV simulator that allows you to control an unmanned aerial vehicle, flying over a large 3D cityscape or a mountain terrain... Read more

4 February, 2011
iDrone Lite 3.0

iDrone Lite 3.0

...iDrone which is a UAV simulator that allows you to control an unmanned aerial vehicle, flying over a large 3D cityscape or a mountain terrain... Read more

8 October, 2010

China blasts unmanned Shenzhou-8 capsule into orbit

...A Chinese Long March-2F rocket successfully boosted an unmanned Shenzhou capsule into orbit on Monday for an automated rendezvous and docking... Read more

1 November, 2011 by William Harwood
<endeca_term>Unmanned</endeca_term> AUVs find Air France wreckage

Unmanned AUVs find Air France wreckage

...2009, killing all 216 passengers and 12 crew members on board. The unmanned Remus 6000 AUVs found the remains 3,900 metres — or nearly 2... Read more

5 April, 2011 by Ben Woods
Proposal for Ground Shipping High Volume of Data Parameter in Supersampling <endeca_term>Unmanned</endeca_term> Aircraft Through Radio Modem

Proposal for Ground Shipping High Volume of Data Parameter in Supersampling Unmanned Aircraft Through Radio Modem

In an unmanned aircraft, large volumes of data are generated by the various sensors installed... Read more

19 October, 2011
Augmented Reality on Long-Wall Face for <endeca_term>Unmanned</endeca_term> Mining

Augmented Reality on Long-Wall Face for Unmanned Mining

An unmanned mining technology for the fully mechanized longwall face automation production is proposed... Read more

1 June, 2011
On Path Planning Strategies for Networked <endeca_term>Unmanned</endeca_term> Aerial Vehicles

On Path Planning Strategies for Networked Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

...the authors compare deterministic and probabilistic path planning strategies for an autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) network, where the objective is to explore a given... Read more

1 May, 2011
Barrage Relay Networks for <endeca_term>Unmanned</endeca_term> Ground Systems

Barrage Relay Networks for Unmanned Ground Systems

The networked command and video-assisted control of Unmanned Ground Systems (UGSs) is an operational scenario that is of increasing tactical... Read more

23 October, 2010
Compact Low-Cost Non-RF Communication Solutions for <endeca_term>Unmanned</endeca_term> Ground Vehicles

Compact Low-Cost Non-RF Communication Solutions for Unmanned Ground Vehicles

...communication, electronic warfare, and other technologies. Increasingly small, lightweight, and highly mobile Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) conduct a variety of missions such as Intelligence, Surveillance... Read more

23 October, 2010
An <endeca_term>Unmanned</endeca_term> Aerial Vehicle-Based System for Large Scale Metrology Applications

An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based System for Large Scale Metrology Applications

Different manufacturing environments, such as aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding, and railway, reveal their interest in... Read more

8 June, 2010
Russian supply ship takes off for ISS

Russian supply ship takes off for ISS

...An unmanned Russian Progress supply ship blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan... Read more

23 April, 2012 by William Harwood

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"cites" even. Ouch!

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...... and PDP11s too

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@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

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I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

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@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

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As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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