Drones

Trump Says Iran Mistakenly Downed Drone. Iran Disagrees

By W.J. Hennigan and John Walcott

President Trump Cancels Rule Requiring U.S. to Report Civilians Killed in Drone Strikes

By Margaret Talev / Bloomberg

DJI's New Mavic 2 Drones Have Major Camera Upgrades

By Alex Fitzpatrick

TIME Special Report: The Drone Age

By Alex Fitzpatrick
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Watch as Nearly 1,000 Drones Come Together to Make TIME's New Cover

TIME worked with Intel's Shooting Star drones for this week's unique cover

By Alex Fitzpatrick May 31, 2018

TIME's Drones Issue: Go Behind the Cover

To create the first TIME cover shot by a drone, we worked with Intel’s Drone Light Show team, Astraeus Aerial Cinema Systems and L.A. Drones—plus 958 drones set to display a precise shade of red,...

May 31, 2018

How Drones Are Revolutionizing the Way Film and Television Is Made

'It takes us out of our body in a certain way, kind of giving us an overlaid perspective'

By Stephanie Zacharek May 31, 2018

Drones Are Easy to Fly. But These Videos Prove They're Also Easy to Crash

These drone pilots could've used a little more practice

By Alex Fitzpatrick and Anne Most May 31, 2018

Flying Over the Line

Perhaps no geographic location in North America is more laden with drama than the border between the United States and Mexico. Spanning approximately 1,900 miles, it follows the Rio Grande from the Gulf of Mexico...

May 31, 2018

Drones Are Changing How We See the World

Whenever I fly on an airplane, I always try to get a window seat. My favorite moments are takeoff and landing, when I’m down below 500 feet, so low that I can see the world...

May 31, 2018

Aerial Photography’s Surprising Role in History

Drones are often celebrated for their ability to capture a new vantage point on the world, revealing the beauty of our planet from high above. But they are only the latest development in a long...

May 31, 2018

Drones Are Here to Stay. Get Used to It

When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico last September, it ravaged the island’s electrical grid and communications systems. For weeks, many of the approximately 5 million Puerto Ricans living in the mainland U.S. were unable to...

May 31, 2018

Experts Say Drones Pose a National Security Threat — and We Aren’t Ready

Officials say they’re in a race against time

By W.J. Hennigan May 31, 2018

Zipline's Drones Are Saving Lives

For several days, Delphine Twese Hamwe’s 2-year-old daughter Ghislane had been screeching in pain as fever wracked her tiny body. A nurse at the local clinic in central Rwanda told her that an acute form...

By Aryn Baker May 31, 2018
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