UK Parliament to consider new #drone laws, today #drones #quadcopters
Existing 400 foot height restriction applied to drones weighing 250g to 7 kg (note the odd use of both English and Metric measures!) 1 km exclusion zone around all certified…
Facebook to build data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah, next to NSA data center
Hmmmm… Source: No surprise: Facebook to build data center in Eagle Mountain | Deseret News
Facebook’s ad placement tools used by many companies to avoid hiring older workers
A proposed class-action lawsuit alleging Facebook’s ad placement tools facilitate discrimination against older job seekers has been expanded to identify additional companies, further widening the latest front in claims that…
High school #Drones #Quadcopters racing as part of #STEM curriculum
A group of high schools in Hawaii have spent the past year studying physics, aerodynamics and learning how to build quad copters, culminating in a multi-high school competitive quadcopter racing…
Age discrimination in tech industry becomes a global phenomena
In China, high skilled tech workers become unemployable as early as 30 years old. “Most people in their 30s are married and have to take care of their family—they’re not…
Optimum age to be a successful entrepreneur is 45
The tech industry, and tech VCs, act as if the most successful age for starting a tech business is someone in their 20s. The tech sector tends to view most…
Google and Amazon seek to “own” airspace by de facto kicking out radio control model airplane hobbyists #Drones #modelaircraft #airplanes #stem
Google, Amazon and others have asked Congress to require that model aircraft hobbyists be Federally licensed pilots and place radio transponders on all model aircraft. This would apply to everyone…
Commercial #Drone Alliance (Google, Amazon, CNN, etc) asks Congress to require all hobby Radio Control aircraft operators to be Federally licensed, have transponders on models #Drones
Source: COMMERCIAL DRONE ALLIANCE CALLS FOR CONGRESS TO REPEAL SECTION 336 OF THE FAA MODERNIZATION AND REFORM ACT OF 2012 — Commercial Drone Alliance To put this in a different…
#SpaceX gets FCC approval for 4,425 satellite global broadband network
SpaceX has a green light from the FCC to launch a network of thousands of satellites blanketing the globe with broadband. Source: FCC approves SpaceX plan for 4,425-satellite broadband network…
Bitcoin
A very decent explanation for those not wanting to read the technical paper: “There’s no easy way to explain Bitcoin, but let me wave my hands and try: When you…