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Dubai’s Drone Delivery Idea Might Be Slightly Less Crazy Than Amazon’s
Jeff Bezos has some new competition in the crazy drone delivery race. Dubai officials want to start using drones to deliver government documents by next year. And while Amazon’s drone delivery program probably won’t happen, Dubai’s equally-crazy plan might have a slightly better shot at getting off the ground.
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Urbanisation, Gentrification, Data: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week
The “smart city” might not be so smart, and gentrification might not be so bad. Plus a sad story about how urban development is destroying Chinese villages — 300 of them per day. This is our weekly look at What’s Ruining Our Cities.
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Angry Afghan Mob Stones A Downed American Predator Drone
The Aviationist reports on this new video recently uploaded to Facebook, which allegedly shows a group of angry Afghans stoning a downed MQ-1 Predator drone. It struck me as a sign of things to come across globe.
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US Soldiers In Iraq Were Fed Ice From Unsanitised Morgue Containers
US soldiers have been on the receiving end of some pretty gruesome news over the past few days. As part of a Justice Department suit against military contractor Kellogg, Brown and Root, it’s been revealed that soldiers serving in Iraq in 2003 and 2004 consumed ice from unsanitized containers that also served as makeshift morgues.