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Google’s Wing launches free app to help drone pilots obey US regulations

Google’s Wing launches free app to help drone pilots obey US regulations

Wing, the drone delivery arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has launched a free app in the US to help pilots fly their drones legally. OpenSky has been available in Australia since 2019 but is now available for both commercial and recreational pilots in the US to use for anything from conducting commercial surveys to filming and photography. It’s available now on both iOS and Android. OpenSky is based on Google Maps, Wing tells DroneLife, and it’s color-coded to show areas… Source link

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Do you obey public-access mandates? Google Scholar is watching

Do you obey public-access mandates? Google Scholar is watching

Google Scholar’s co-founder, Anurag Acharya.Credit: Amit Basu Google Scholar, the popular free search engine for scholarly literature, revealed an unexpected feature on 23 March: it is keeping track of whether research papers covered by funders’ public-access mandates are free to read. A scientist’s Google Scholar profile now displays how many of their papers should be free to read because a funder requires it; how many… Source link

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