England's Daily Mail has
more information:
"Most of the active
drones are deployed from military installations, enforcement agencies and
border patrol teams, according to the Federal Aviation Authority.
But, astonishingly, 19
universities and colleges are also registered as owners of what are officially
known as unmanned aerial vehicles.
It is thought that
many of institutions, which include Cornell, the University of Colorado,
Georgia Tech, and Eastern Gateway Community College, are developing drone
technology.
There are also 21
mainstream manufacturers, such as General Atomics, who are registered to use
drones domestically.
As well as active
locations, the FAA also revealed 16 sites where licences to use spy planes have
expired and four where authorizations have been disapproved, such as Otter Tail
County, Minnesota.
However, the FAA is
yet to reveal what kinds of drones might be based at any of these locations.
The agency says it
will release this data later."
Robot technology has
other uses too, says financial journalist Max Keiser, who told me in a recent appearance on my Progressive
Radio Network that algorithm based technology is now actually writing stories,
perhaps even like this one.
He explained. "Forbes
magazine wrote a story a couple of weeks ago about computers that are able with
narrative software to take prices from the exchange and create stories in any
of the ways that they want in their magazine. So it can be like, okay write a story about the prices that-
the closing prices in the technology sector in the voice of Danny
Schechter. And they'll create a
story and it'll appear in the magazine.
So it's a computer that's writing the stories, but the computers are
also reading the stories."
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News Dissector Danny Schechter blogs at NewsDissector.net. His recent books are Occupy: Dissecting Occupy Wall Street and Blogothon (Cosimo Books). He hosts News Dissector Radio on
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