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After weeks of concerns over drones hovering over tri-state communities, the Federal Aviation Administration has stepped in to stop the flight of unmanned aircraft by banning the flying machines over certain locations in New York. The FAA said it imposed the temporary flight restrictions in coordination with federal security partners and at the request of Gov. Kathy Hochul. The impacted locations...

The FAA has issued flight restrictions in 22 cities in New Jersey. News 4 New York’s Adam Harding reports. 

A father-daughter team in southern Delaware is asking people not to shoot them out of the sky amid concerns about drone sightings along the East Coast. They’re one of the first five American families to own a BlackFly flying car.

The urgent warning from the FBI and New Jersey State Police follows an alarming number of instances involving people shining lasers into the eyes of manned aircraft mistaken for drones.

As the investigation continues into the origins of the supposed drone sightings in New Jersey and elsewhere in the tri-state, the FBI and state police are warning residents: Do not shoot or shine lasers at the aircrafts. Law enforcement said that would likely make things worse —and potentially deadly. NBC New York’s Charles Watson reports.

TikTok asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a bipartisan-backed law that would ban the social media app in the United States if the company’s Chinese-based owner, ByteDance, doesn’t sell the platform to an American owner.

Walmart store associates are now using body cameras in some locations as retailers look to deter theft and make employees safer.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said this weekend that the Department of Homeland Security should send special drone-detection technology made by Robin Radar Systems to New York and New Jersey following a series of mysterious sightings.

After almost a month of few answers, Sen. Chuck Schumer wants special drone-detection technology to be implemented as a there’s a push in New Jersey to establish a drone traffic control system. NBC New York’s Charles Watson reports. 

Food delivery robots utilize ultrasonic sensors, cameras, GPS and artificial intelligence to make short distance deliveries.

Why are there drones flying all over New Jersey and New York? Investigators hope to find out.

Top state officials in New York are urging the federal government to deploy special detection systems to track down drones. NBC New York’s Brittany Miller reports. 

After weeks of fear and bewilderment about the drones buzzing over parts of New York and New Jersey, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer is urging the federal government to deploy better drone-tracking technology to identify and ultimately stop the airborne pests.

If you are not using end-to-end encrypted messaging on your phone already, the U.S. government has a warning message for you about China and your texts.

“If you aren’t using iMessage, you can use RCS. RCS text messages can be sent to non-Apple devices as well as another iPhone or another Apple device with Text Message Forwarding turned on,” Apple explained.

Co-founder and CEO Sam Altman says he only takes a small salary, and no equity, from his company OpenAI because running it is his dream job.

If you’ve seen the letters RCS while texting recently, you’re not alone. But what do they mean and why are more people seeing them now?

Six former Apple employees are facing fraud charges in a scam that targeted the tech giant’s program for matching workers’ charitable donations, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.

Some Microsoft users are reporting issues with Outlook and other Microsoft 365 programs on Monday morning, according to the website Downdetector.

Crypto showed up in force this election cycle, raising tens of millions to vote out the industry’s critics and vote in its friends.