This Armada of Saildrones Could Conquer the Ocean
Engineer and adventurer Richard Jenkins has made oceangoing robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and environmental science. His aim: a thousand of them.
Drone
Losing Sight
A 4-year-old girl was the sole survivor of a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. Then she disappeared.
How Rogue Techies Armed the Predator, Almost Stopped 9/11, and Accidentally Invented Remote War
The making of the drone.
Nothing Says "Sorry Our Drones Hit Your Wedding Party" Like $800,000 and Some Guns
Untangling the aftermath of a United States drone strike in Yemen.
The Killing Machines
A briefing on drone warfare.
How a U.S. Citizen Came to Be in America’s Cross Hairs
On the legal and practical details of the drone strikes that killed New Mexico-born Anwar al-Awlaki and later, accidentally, his sixteen-year-old Colorado-born son.
Drone-Ethics Briefing
The transcript from an lecture presented by In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture-capital arm, on the ethics of drones, military robots, and cyborg soldiers.
Rules for Drone Wars
A conversation with NYU Law Professor Philip Alston on the legality of ‘targeted killings’ by drones, which have made headlines in Pakistan, but also have been deployed by the C.I.A. in countries like Yemen.
