This week, Walmart announced that it has invested in a drone service provider, DroneUp, to further its plans for drone delivery. Walmart President and CEO John Furner wrote in a statement, “Conducting drone deliveries at scale is within reach. DroneUp’s expertise, combined with our retail footprint and proven history of logistics innovation, puts us right
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Walmart’s COVID-19 Testing by Drone Pilot Program
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Drones
If you live within a one and a half-mile radius of the east side of the Walmart store in El Paso, Texas in a single-family home, within a one-mile radius of the North Las Vegas Walmart store in a single-family home, or within a one-mile radius of the Cheektowaga, New York Walmart store, then you…
Vegas Casinos Are “Cash Only” After Suspected Ransomware Attack
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
Two Las Vegas casinos’ networks were down over the past week, with posted signs saying “Cash Only” throughout the casinos after a suspected ransomware attack. Electronic slot machines were silent as the casinos reacted to the security incident.
The Nevada State Gaming Control Board was aware of the situation and disclosed that it is monitoring…
Las Vegas Granted DOT Grant for Autonomous Vehicle Project
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Autonomous Vehicles
The City of Las Vegas and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada in the Las Vegas Medical District were awarded $5.3 million by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation Grants program for an autonomous vehicle project.
The project, GoMed, is set to begin late next year,…
“Drones are the Next Internet” Says the FAA
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Drones
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) administrator, Dan Elwell, said last week, “Drones are going to do for aviation what the internet did for information,” and called on the industry to work with the FAA to fully integrate drones into the National Airspace System. Elwell made this statement at the InterDrone conference held last week in Las…
FAA Updates the Public on Drones with “A Story of Revolution and Evolution”
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Drones
At the CES Unmanned Systems conference in Las Vegas last week, Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Michael Huerta, provided the public with an update on the state of our unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the United States, and how the FAA plans to grow the UAS industry in the coming year.
Huerta’s speech,…
Night Ops –Top Requested Part 107 FAA Waivers
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Drones
At a recent Commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, a Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) attorney, Dean Griffiths, explained that the top three requests for Part 107 commercial drone operations waivers were for night operations, operations over people, and flight beyond visual line of sight. For operations over people and flights beyond…
Trump Hotel Settles with NY Attorney General Over Credit Card Breaches
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
Trump International Hotels Management has agreed to pay the State of New York $50,000 for two data breaches that exposed over 70,000 customer credit card numbers and other personal information, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
The first data breach involved the infection of the Trump Hotels’ system with malware that affected hotels…