Daily Archives: April 21, 2021

Former Inmate Admits Role in Scheme to use Drones to Smuggle Contraband into Fort Dix Federal Prison

NEWARK, N.J. – A Hudson County, New Jersey, man today admitted participating in a conspiracy to use drones to smuggle contraband, including cell phones and tobacco, into the federal correctional facility at Fort Dix, and to possessing heroin and fentanyl with the intent to distribute, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced. Jason Arteaga-Loayza, aka “Juice,” 30, of Jersey City,…

Early Monday, a tiny helicopter flew on Mars It was a short hop, just up and down, for Ingenuity , which hitched a ride to space inside the Perseverance rover

in February. And it was an extraordinary feat: the first-ever powered flight on another planet.By Nick Kirkpatrick, Frank Hulley-Jones and Laris KarklisApril 20, 2021 Over the next 31 days, Ginny the chopper will make a handful of test flights in the thin Mars air under the watchful gaze of Percy, which will relay images and data back to NASA. The flight is one of…

Fitness drones are coming, if inventors can get all the kinks out of them

By Bernd Debusmann Jr.April 18, 2021 at 8:30 a.m. EDT In the past 20 years, drones have become a fixture of modern life. From photography and journalism to package delivery and crop monitoring, companies of all kinds are increasingly turning to unmanned flying devices to cut costs, increase efficiency, decrease workload or simply do what humans cannot. Where the world…

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