Privacy worries in California prompted Alameda County officials to postpone drone plans for further study.
The drone plans would've given users the potential to take photos and videos from an eagle-eye perspective to share on Snapchat, its social network, and would've offered another hardware option alongside Spectacles as a way to help users extend their Snapping experience beyond the smartphone.
Amazon's delivery drone plans may have seemed more like a media stunt than a concrete vision back when it launched, but with active testing taking place in Canada and now, new details showing up in a patent application, things are getting real.
The strip continues to be bombarded by unmanned drone plans despite the fact that it is already destroyed.
A new bill from Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) that's floating around the House signals that the White House's drone plans haven't fallen off Congress' radar.
The inspector general's office further advised CBP to "reconsider its plan to expand" the drone program and planned additional investment of $443 million, "and put those funds to better use".
And not to ruin anyone's droning plans, but in the US, that means the drone must always be within a line of site of the operator.
The considered problem, called the Time Dependent Traveling Salesman Planning Problem in Controlled Airspace (TDTSPPCA), relates to the drone route planning phase and aims to minimize the total operational cost.
Amazon and Google's drone delivery plans hit snag with new US regulations.
So what does all of this mean for Amazon's drone delivery plans?
