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DroneXLDronesTSA's 'Drone Drone Drone' Post Hits 736K Views And A Six-Figure Threat The Transportation Security Administration posted the word “drone” 46 times in a row on X on Thursday afternoon, and by the evening the post had 736,000 views, 2,700 likes and nearly 300 replies.

DroneXLDronesWalmart Cut a Drone Delivery Ribbon in West Memphis. Nothing Flies Yet Walmart and Wing cut a ribbon in West Memphis, Arkansas, on Monday, November 2, with Mayor Marco McLendon, city officials and community leaders, and the city announced what it called the arrival of…

DroneXLDronesSkyeBrowse Measures a Roof and Flags Hail Hits From One Drone Flight SkyeBrowse released a roof inspection tool on Thursday, November 5, that measures a roof and screens it for storm damage from one drone flight.

DroneXLDronesZipline Nearly Died Two Years Ago. Today It's Worth $21.5 Billion Zipline co-founder and CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton followed Thursday’s $1.5 billion raise at a $21.5 billion valuation with a thread on X about how the company got there.

DroneXLDronesZipline Raises $1.5 Billion as Walmart Signs for 300 More Drone Sites Zipline said Thursday it has raised $1.5 billion at a $21.5 billion post-money valuation, and that Walmart has signed a national multi-year agreement to launch 300 additional Zipline sites.

DroneXLDronesDJI Matrice 5T First Look: 1280 Thermal, 176x Zoom, Flies in the Rain I have the latest enterprise drone from DJI in my hands, the Matrice 5T , and after checking out some of DJI’s latest enterprise tech over the past couple of years, I am super excited for this one…

DroneXLDronesDJI Matrice 5T Puts 1K Thermal in a Folding Drone the US Can't Buy DJI Enterprise launched the Matrice 5T on November 5, 2026, a folding enterprise drone built around the native 1280 by 1024 thermal camera, rotating LiDAR and mmWave radar it introduced three weeks…

DroneXLDronesFlock Drone Chief Sidhu Quits for a16z, Alpha Still in Early Access Rahul Sidhu , the former police officer who sold his drone startup Aerodome to Flock Safety for more than $300 million in October 2024, is leaving Flock to join Andreessen Horowitz ’s American…

DroneXLDronesNeros Gives Pentagon A Small Stake With No Vote, Then Asks Who Buys Neros Technologies says the Pentagon is getting a small stake in the company in exchange for the conditional loan commitment of up to $450 million its Office of Strategic Capital signed on Monday…

DroneXLDronesPano AI Fire Cameras Can Now Alert Seneca and BRINC Drones to Smoke Pano AI on Wednesday opened its wildfire detection platform to drone companies, so a confirmed smoke sighting from one of its camera stations can go straight to an aircraft instead of waiting on a…

DroneXLDronesViture Pro 2 XR Glasses Give the Mini 5 Pro the Goggles It Never Got Good day, folks. Shawn here from Air Photography. These XR style glasses have become extremely popular with drone enthusiasts over the past year.

DroneXLDronesJimmy's World: FAA Says My Human Drone Is Illegal, Batteries Included Jimmy, the host of the YouTube channel Jimmy’s World, says the FAA has told him that the human drone he flew for 3.3 million views is illegal.

DroneXLDronesiFootage Shark Slider Pico Pro Drives My DJI Pocket Camera's Moves Take a look at the two shots that open my video. One is stationary: a nice shot, some out-of-focus areas, some good depth.

DroneXLDronesWing Told Manchester "No Photos." Its Privacy Policy Says Otherwise Wing and Walmart pitched drone delivery to the Board of Aldermen in Manchester, Missouri, on Monday night, and Mayor Benjamin Toben said afterward that no drones will deliver in the city this year…

DroneXLDronesDJI Mic 3 Hacks: I Stuck One on My Car's Mud Flap, and 9 More Tricks That sound you hear at the start of my video? That’s coming from a DJI Mic 3 clipped right to the mud flap of a car.

DroneXLDronesAmazon's Next Westborough Drone Plan Needs a New Zoning Ruling Westborough’s building commissioner on Monday withdrew the August 26 zoning ruling that classified Amazon ’s Prime Air drone pad as an accessory use of its 64 Otis Street warehouse, the ruling that…

DroneXLDronesSt. Louis Clears Police Drones 4-1. Camera Pledge Lives in an FAQ St. Louis police can start flying drones to 911 calls this week. On Wednesday the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners voted 4-1 to approve the special orders that govern the department’s new…

DroneXLDronesDJI Mic 3 Review: Even If the Signal Drops, You Don't Lose a Word A lot of people’s videos sound like the opening of my video, with the wind all over the audio. Same wind, same camera, and the only difference between that and clean audio is a DJI Mic 3 .

DroneXLDronesExedy Wants $1,000 for a Spot in Line for Its Michigan Spray Drone Exedy Drones opened reservations on Monday for the Ayre CX , an agricultural spray drone it plans to assemble in Van Buren Township, Michigan, with first deliveries targeted for spring 2027.

DroneXLDronesDJI Docks Put Tatra Rescuers Over Poland's Highest Peak in 6 Minutes TOPR , the volunteer rescue service for Poland’s Tatra Mountains, has finished a six-month test of three DJI Dock 3 stations and one DJI Dock 4 .

DroneXLDronesAir Force Raises Joby's Autonomy Bet to $37M on a 33-Year-Old Caravan The U.S. Air Force has raised its total commitment to Joby Aviation’s autonomous flight software to nearly $37 million, Joby said Wednesday, and lifted the ceiling on the company’s operational…

DroneXLDronesAmazon Drones Reach Dolton. The Village Sends Residents to the FAA Amazon ’s MK30 delivery drones are flying over Dolton, Illinois, and village officials have begun telling residents to take their concerns to Amazon or the Federal Aviation Administration, CBS…

DroneXLDronesDJI Gives ROMO 2 Its Drone Offline Mode, Eight Months After the Hack DJI switched on Local Data Mode for its ROMO 2 robot vacuum on October 29, a setting that cuts the DJI Home app off from the internet and keeps the robot’s maps and images on the device.

DroneXLDronesSaildrone Beats the Navy in Court Over a $2.1 Billion Drone Boat Snub A federal judge ruled, in an opinion dated November 3, that the US Navy improperly threw Saildrone out of its $2.1 billion Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) competition, and ordered the service…

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The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo