An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), also known as a drone is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard.
DETROIT - Amazon is expanding its drone delivery service in metro Detroit, with plans to fly its drones out of its fulfillment center in Hazel Park, which can drop off packages at nearby customers' homes. Packages up to 5 pounds will soon be able to be delivered by a fleet of 12 drones within about
LANSING - On Feb. 21, Michigan will raise its state minimum wage by almost $2 per hour, from $10.56 to $12.48 — that is, unless lawmakers block it first. It would be the second increase of the year and, jumping $1.92, the largest single raise in the 65 years of the wage’s existence, MLIVE reported. The
DETROIT— Business leaders voiced optimism about Michigan's economy in early 2025, but less confident beyond July. The results of the annual survey from the Ann Arbor-based Baker Strategy Group were presented Tuesday during a Detroit Economic Club meeting. Although sentiment for the next six months moved upward slightly from last year, longer looks at a
NEW YORK - Scientists have discovered a key protein that helps cancer cells avoid detection by the immune system during a type of advanced therapy. By creating a new drug that blocks this protein, researchers hope to make cancer treatments more effective, especially for hard-to-treat blood cancers. This breakthrough could lead to better survival rates
2024 was a year with growing ransomware attacks, accelerating use of artificial intelligence (for good and evil), more deepfakes in online fraud and election threats being overstated, but Donald Trump becoming president-elect (again) is the top 2024 cyber story. When we look back at this past year’s cybersecurity stories a decade from now, what will
BREMAN, Germany - China’s push to dominate the next frontier in space exploration took center stage at the Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen, Germany, where Beijing-based Space Transportation, also known as Lingkong Tianxing Technology, announced the development of a prototype supersonic spaceplane, dubbed “Cuantianhou” or “Flying Monkey.” Details about the Cuantianhou remain limited. However, a scale
LONDON - A high-powered laser weapon under development in the UK just shot down its first drones — putting the futuristic device a major step closer to the battlefield. The background:Laser weapons — powerful, destructive beams of light — are arguably the “next big thing” in defense tech, thanks to their numerous benefits over traditional kinetic
WARSAW, Poland - The Giez unmanned aerial vehicle was unveiled at the MSPO-2023 exhibition in Poland. The new drone is characterised by its compact size and can be equipped with different types of ammunition. Giez is a kamikaze drone. The drone was created by engineers at the Military Institute of Technology and will be manufactured
BATTLE CREEK - A proposed drone park in Battle Creek has secured $7 million in state funding to advance its development, highlighting the latest in statewide efforts to seize economic opportunity from the nascent industry. The Michigan Unmanned Aerial Systems Park slated for roughly 200 vacant acres on the west side of the Battle Creek
NEW YORK - It's neither a bird nor a plane, but a winged microchip as small as a grain of sand that can be carried by the wind as it monitors such things as pollution levels or the spread of airborne diseases. The tiny microfliers, whose development by engineers at Northwestern University was detailed in
