Gatwick and Heathrow spend millions on anti-drone equipment after Christmas travel chaos January 4, 2019 Gatwick and Heathrow are spending millions of pounds on anti-drone technology after drones disrupted thousands of passengers in the run-up to Christmas. The airports, which are the two busiest in the UK, have invested in military-grade equipment designed to jam drone signals. Read more: Drones, AI and 5G: Our tech predictions for 2019 A spokesperson [...]
Plans for tiny robot workers to fix Britain’s underground pipes get £7m government backing January 3, 2019 Tiny robots the size of a human fingernail will one day swim and crawl along Britain’s vast network of underground pipes, working in teams to carry out repairs in place of people. The government is to plough £7m into the creation of the micro robots, which it hopes will one day perform infrastructure maintenance work on pipes, [...]
Drones, cybercrime, AR, and robots – the tech trends to watch out for in 2019 January 3, 2019 It is finally 2019, and I can’t wait to see what surprises the technology industry has in store for us. What should we keep our eyes peeled for over the next 12 months? To whet your appetite about the future, I asked the experts for their predictions for the top tech trends of this year. Devious [...]
Army withdraws anti-drone equipment from Gatwick following Christmas travel chaos January 3, 2019 Military equipment installed at Gatwick to stop drones disrupting flights has now been removed, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said today. The army was deployed to the airport shortly before Christmas to help bring an end to the saga that affected roughly 1,000 flights. Israeli-developed systems designed to jam drone signals were reportedly among the military-grade [...]
Gatwick drone pair released by police without charge December 23, 2018 A pair of suspects arrested in the Gatwick Airport drone inquiry have been released without charge today. A 47-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman from Crawley were arrested by Sussex Police yesterday on suspicion of "the criminal use of drones" near the Gatwick airfield on Wednesday and Thursday. More than 140,000 passengers were hit by delays [...]
Police arrest two people in connection with “criminal use” of drones at Gatwick Airport December 22, 2018 Sussex Police have arrested two people in connection with the "criminal use of drones" that resulted in major disruption at Gatwick Airport this week. More than 100,000 people were affected by grounded flights between Wednesday and Friday, just days before Christmas. Flights were temporarily suspended again on Friday evening after reports of a drone near the airfield and [...]
Gatwick Airport reopens after drones cause Christmas travel chaos December 21, 2018 Gatwick Airport has reopened this morning, after an investigation into reports of drones flying near the airfield caused it to shut down for more than 36 hours. Hundreds of thousands of passengers attempting to travel for Christmas were affected by the disruption, the airport's largest since a volcanic ash cloud in 2010. As of 7am [...]
Grounded: Gatwick airport remains shut down as Army brought in to deal with drone crisis December 20, 2018 The Army has been deployed to assist with the ongoing crisis at Gatwick airport, which has seen flights grounded since Wednesday because of drones flying near the runway. Drones which have grounded all flights at Gatwick Airport are “highly targeted” and have been “designed to close the airport and bring maximum disruption in the run up [...]
Amazon ramps up UK investment with commitment to over 1,000 new jobs October 19, 2018 E-commerce giant Amazon is set to further cement its commitment to the UK, after it revealed plans tonight for a new research centre in Manchester and expansion in Edinburgh and Cambridge which will create over 1,000 new highly-skilled jobs in the country in 2019. Labelled by the firm as “Silicon Valley jobs in Britain”, the [...]
DJI Mavic Pro review: This £1,000 high-flyer is the best consumer-grade drone you can buy September 21, 2018 Speaking as a real grown up with a workplace pension and several direct debits, who goes on holidays and comes back home and says things like “Ooh it’s nice to be back in your own bed again isn’t it?”, I very rarely get genuinely, childishly giddy about a new toy. But the DJI Mavic [...]