In retaliation for the last week's attack on Jinnah airport in Karachi, Pakistan, U.S. drones fired missiles at Taliban encampments in the country, killing at least 13 militants.

A Connecticut woman has been charged with assault and breach of peace after attacking a teenager who was flying his quadcopter drone over a beach.

All that is seemingly evil in this world—frat parties, drones, GoPro cameras being attached to things—have finally converged. The Sigma Nus at Ole Miss threw a "Woodstock Party" and there is now aerial footage of the proceedings, for whatever reason that needed to happen.

An American Airlines flight came dangerously close to crashing into an unidentified drone over Florida earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Drones are a real and terrifying marker of the modern state panopticon, an enabler par excellence of the surveillance state and extra-judicial killing. Let's shoot 'em with machine guns and see what happens!

A Department of Defense study released earlier this year found that drone operators experience the same levels of stress as combat pilots in manned aircraft. Although they're separated by thousands of miles from the casualties they cause, the job of a drone pilot still requires whatever internal reckoning it takes to fire at a human target.

An unmanned aerial vehicle, also known as a drone, struck an athlete in the head during Sunday's Endure Batavia Triathlon in Geraldton, Western Australia.

Facebook's Internet.org initiative is working on a fleet of drones, satellites, and lasers, with the aim of "beaming internet from the sky" to every person potential Facebook user in the world.

Netflix's DVD division reminded the world it still exists by taking a shot at Amazon.com during its annual meeting, in a video spoof of the mega-retailer's infamous drone delivery publicity stunt.

Indian officials are now deploying drones in their ongoing hunt for the man-eating tigress that has been terrorizing the region around Jim Corbett National Park. The heavily forested terrain is reportedly unsuitable for elephants, the traditional mobile tiger-hunting platform.

Amazon gained a patent on Saturday for what the company calls "anticipatory shipping," which will let them ship items to customers before they've even technically purchased them. Basically, Amazon can read your mind.

Today in Yemen, 13 people were killed in what was reportedly an erroneous drone strike by the American government. According to Yemeni officials, a caravan was traveling in central Yemen on its way to a wedding when it was hit by missiles fired from a drone, leaving bodies burned and vehicles ablaze in the middle of the road.

Amazon is developing a new service called Prime Air which would use unmanned drones to deliver Amazon packages. While the drone drops are at least four or five years away, CEO Jeff Bezos appeared on 60 Minutes to mess with producers and show off the prototypes.

We're always hearing of new creative uses for drones, but this has got to be one of the better ones: Four people in Calhoun County, Georgia have been accused of using a mini helicopter to smuggle contraband tobacco into a prison.

A drone malfunctioned and hit a Navy ship during a training exercise off the coast of Southern California this weekend. Two sailors were treated for minor burns, and the ship, which was carrying 300 people, is now being inspected for damage. A Navy spokesperson did not say whether the drone had malfunctioned before.

Congress hosted a "historic" hearing this week to allow lawmakers to hear directly from survivors of a U.S. drone strike. Only five elected officials showed up.

During his six years as a U.S. Air Force drone sensor operator, 27-year-old Brandon Bryant helped kill, by his estimation, 1,626 people in combat, mostly from bases in the U.S., thousands of miles away from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. Years later, he's dealing with PTSD and speaking out about the realities of drone warfare. Got a question for Bryant? Ask it at the bottom of the post. Bryant will join us at 2pm EST to answer your questions. [Update: Q + A is done, thanks for stopping by!]

Two new reports from human rights groups show that U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen have killed more civilians than American authorities have admitted and may, in some cases, have violated international law.

On October 14, 2011 a remotely piloted aircraft operated by the United States launched a missile at a restaurant in Aden, Yemen, killing, among several other nearby civilians, an American citizen named Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who was born in Denver to Yemeni-born parents and later moved with them back to Yemen.

Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani woman who was shot in the head by the Taliban for believing that women have a right to education, met with President Obama on Friday, thanking him for his support of education and asking him to stop drone strikes in Pakistan.