After months of delays and much anticipation, the Federal Aviation Administration finally released its final rule on small drones. The rule represents an important, long-delayed step toward establishing comprehensive regulations for flying small unmanned aerial systems and integrating them into the national airspace. Industry experts have argued for years that the United States risked falling behind in the burgeoning drone market and missing out on countless opportunities for growth. The new rule should expand the growth of the US commercial drone industry, catalyze American innovation in the global marketplace, and maintain the technological superiority of US military drones. But there's work left to do.

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A Placer County man was taken into custody Friday on suspicion of flying a drone into a firefighting effort northeast of Sacramento. Information posted on social media helped lead to the arrest of Eric Wasser, 57, of Foresthill. Cal Fire officers took him into custody, booked him into the Placer County Jail in Auburn and charged him with interfering with firefighting operations, a misdemeanor. He also could face prosecution from federal authorities for violating restricted air space, said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Berlant said the arrest over a drone's interference with firefighting was a first in California. The presence of the drone prompted authorities to ground aircraft for 30 minutes the evening of June 28, the day that the Trailhead fire broke out.

When it comes to drones, AT&T wants to be in the driver's seat. The massive U.S. carrier is already using drones to inspect its cell towers and may someday put cells on drones to boost service at big events. But it's also eyeing a major role in the way others use drones. At the heart of it all is AT&T's network, technology executives from the company said Friday at AT&T's Shape conference in San Francisco. They see the network as a future backbone for command and control of drones or even a drone traffic management system. Air traffic control is one of the big challenges looming over the future of commercial and recreational drones.

Images have emerged of a strange drone shaped like a real bird that was found crashed in Somalia, leading to claims it was being used to spy on targets. The metal bird, which is shaped to mimic a large bird of prey with'feathered' wings, is reported to have been recovered in an area of the capital, Mogadishu. According to local reports, the unmanned vehicle, which has two propellers attached to its wings, may be a surveillance craft used by the Somali intelligence agency, NISA. The drone is reported to have crashed in Mogadishu, Somalia earlier this week. Low quality images show it to resemble a large bird of prey.

A bird-shaped robot crashed in Mogadishu earlier this week. It was covered in dirt and grime, with signs of heavy wear, shoddy construction, or both. The bird-bodied drone looked tired, if it's possible for a machine to look tired. Within hours, observers on Twitter noted that the crashed bird-drone looked a lot like a prototype floated by the U.S. Air Force Research Lab in 2010, though the existence of a U.S. prototype doesn't mean all future designs are derived from it. Local reports associate this drone, which came down on May 1st, with Somalia's National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA).

We've all been there: That moment when your cellphone call drops out, or your mobile webpage stops loading, because you've hit a dead zone in coverage. To address that issue, AT&T says it someday intends to launch aerial drones that can provide signal where it's otherwise lacking, or where crowds are putting a great deal of strain on the existing cell network. The drones would add extra capacity, freeing up your phone to access the Web and in some cases make voice calls. The idea is like a more-localized version of what Google and Facebook have been dreaming of doing for the rest of the world: beaming Internet access down to the ground from hovering platforms in the sky above. Although LTE coverage is already plentiful in most cities, drone-based data connections could also play a role in responding to emergencies and natural disasters.

Brennan said during an event at the Brookings Institution think tank on Wednesday that the next president could order expanded drone attacks or remove the ban on waterboarding, but the final decisions are up to the director of CIA and their agency colleagues. He then said if the next president wanted to resume waterboarding "they'll have to find another director," but did not mention Trump by name.

As with the rest of the Zenmuse line, the camera's main functionality is integrated into the main DJI GO app, allowing you to swipe to to zoom in and out, for example. Previously, if you wanted to zoom in using a drone, you needed to fly it closer. And yes, it can still be used as a live video feed while you're flying. The Z3 uses the same camera sensor as in the Inspire 1 and Phantom 4, meaning it offers the same 12-megapixel still shots and Adobe DNG RAW support. Although it's not the primary purpose, the Zenmuse Z3 can be used for shooting video too -- 30fps at 4k resolution.

A Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that was passed by the Senate on Wednesday has excluded key privacy provisions, including a requirement that commercial and government users of drones must disclose if they collect personally identifiable information of a person. The bill, which is a compromise short-term extension to ensure continued funding at current levels to the FAA, was passed by the Senate and goes to President Barack Obama to be signed into law, two days before the current authorization is to expire. It was earlier passed by the House of Representatives. But Senator Edward J. Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts and a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, on Wednesday said that the new bill, called the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016, was "a missed opportunity." It does not include drone privacy provisions that he authored and were included in the Senate version of the FAA reauthorization bill that passed in April this year, the senator said in a statement.