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    There's no general threat using Google Assistant with Go 4 app. DJI Drone could kill…

    I'm jumping in here late, but I can't see how Google Assistant could affect a drone unless DJI added support for it. The way Google Assistant works is that it takes your spoken commands and sends the audio stream to Google, where the voice to text processing is performed. It identifies key...
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    Phantom Rain RESUCE JACKETS - Submersion PART 1

    The camera is not protected. This product is only designed to keep your drone afloat so that you can recover it for the memory card and for insurance and/or repair purposes.
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    Newbie in the Hudson Valley

    Did you launch directly from the island or did you fly it from the shore? I've always wanted to go down there, how did you get to the island? Was it by a private boat or are there tours that go there?
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    Microsoft drone ?

    Microsoft isn't making drones. DJI has a API kit for Windows that lets Windows apps use AI to analyze drone data. At the Build conference, they demoed on stage a DJI drone flying over pipes and identifying a crack in one of them.
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    Drone journalism’s battle for airspace - Columbia Journalism Review

    There was a nice article posted last week in the Columbia Journalism Review about commercial use of drones by journalists. It covers how the New York Times was able to provide drone coverage of the wildfires in California manages to include both Causby and Singer v. Newton.
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    New ArgTek Install

    Which Alpha models did you get? Two of the APA-M04 and one of the APA-M25?
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    Phantom line-up is dead...

    Where did they say the Phantom line was dead? All the memo said (look the English language version of the memo) was that specific Phantom 4, Phantom 3, Osmo, and Mavic products were going to be EOL'ed. They did this with P1, P2, and the other P3 models. Take it for what it is, a memo to...
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    New ArgTek Install

    My range was greatly improved with the Argtek. There's not much to it. Three wires to the antenna connectors on the controller board, and the antennas themselves. Replacing the antenna's with the Alphas would gain you some distance and it would rule out the Argtek antennas as the source of...
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    Why I would think twice about "droning" as a career...Lightning cable saga...

    The iPad Pro (and I think the iPhone X, iPhone 8, and 8 Plus) uses a USB 3 chipset, but the other models are USB 2 for data and power. But anything over 3 meters is a crap shoot.
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    New ArgTek Install

    If you are using a VR headset with Litchi, you have no way of accessing those controls...
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    What Tablet

    The Nokia that is doing the Android devices is not the part of Nokia that was acquired by Microsoft. That part of Nokia was shuttered and Microsoft took a massive write off for that adventure. That being said, Microsoft does a lot on the Android platform these days.
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    New ArgTek Install

    I bought the Phantom 3 Standard because I wasn't sure if I would like it enough to warrant the money. For $400, it has been a lot of fun and it didn't cost much money or time to install the Argtek kit. Also, I bought it not knowing the differences between the various Phantom 3 models. What I...
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    Still photography: Mechanical v. Rolling Electronic Shutter

    One other consideration, an electronic shutter has no moving parts. That's one less thing to break or otherwise jam. Digital Photography Review has a nice article that explains how the various types of shutters work.
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    Video Editing

    Also take a look at the free edition of DaVinci Resolve 15.
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    Was unfair to sell the P4P V2.0 then a better MP2 so shortly after?

    For better or worse, that is the way commercial electronics work. It's like buying a laptop. XYX comes out with a refreshed version of their RoadWarrior 2000 series laptop. You buy it and it's great. Two months later, XYZ releases a model of their TinyDancer laptop and you wished you had...