Google and Facebook fight for web supremacy with drones and balloons
Pilotless drones and high-altitude balloons are some of the ideas being mooted by the internet giants keen to dominate the infrastructure of the web.
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Air safety chiefs are investigating the first near-miss between a passenger jet and a drone near Heathrow. As many get ready to unwrap the must-have present, we ask: what are your rights?
British film-maker Danny Cooke has captured these haunting scenes from the deserted city of Pripyat in Ukraine – abandoned after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986.
With France on alert over drones spotted flying over several nuclear power plants, a French minister says the authorities may seek to shoot them down in future.
Pilots warn people should not be able to fly remote-controlled drones in UK airspace until better rules are brought in.
As pilots urge tougher rules on drones, Channel 4 News finds some of the most memorable footage from around the web.
The US military says it has deployed armed manned and unmanned aircraft over Iraq to protect its soldiers, and may consider targeting “high value individuals”.
A £10m luxury yacht in California is destroyed by a giant blaze – all filmed by a drone deployed by the captain of a nearby boat when he saw a plume of black smoke pouring into the sky.
The Ministry of Defence reveals that an unmanned US spy drone flew through UK airspace three times recently as part of the Nato trial, Unified Vision.
A US Navy drone is deployed to scour the floor of the Indian Ocean, as hopes of finding the missing MH370’s black box recorder fade.
A giant portrait of a child – intended to be seen by drone operators and US satellites monitoring the region – is unveiled on the ground in Pakistan in an attempt to “save innocent lives”.
An unmanned aerial vehicle, commonly known as a drone, has crashed in South Korea, officials say, raising suspicions that it is a part of North Korea’s burgeoning espionage arsenal.
Pilotless drones and high-altitude balloons are some of the ideas being mooted by the internet giants keen to dominate the infrastructure of the web.
MPs defend the UK military’s controversial drones programme, saying pilots are not video-gaming “warrior geeks”, and call for more clarity around their secretive use.
Kareem Khan’s brother and son were killed in a Pakistan drone strike in 2009. Now he is in the UK to meet MPs and tells Channel 4 News “most drone strikes are killing innocent people”.
This week Senator John McCain moved to shift control of US drones from the CIA to the defence department. Meanwhile, fears grow about the application of activity-based intelligence to drones.