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A Georgia Tech aerospace engineering student may have just rewritten the record books. His homemade jet-powered drone, called Reaper, reportedly hit four hundred ninety one miles per hour — sustaining that speed for four full minutes across three separate prototypes. The aircraft cost thirteen thousand dollars and was carrying a payload during its fastest run, which makes the achievement even more striking.
Shifting to a story unfolding in real time, a conflict involving the United States and Iran is escalating in ways that are already rippling across the region. President Trump has declared a land blockade is now in effect, and a drone strike on a gas facility in northern Iraq has knocked out power for more than seventy percent of the Kurdish region there. The humanitarian and geopolitical stakes here are significant and growing.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of surveillance and public safety, those white cameras you may have noticed mounted near traffic lights are drawing fresh attention. Made by a company called Flock, these devices track vehicle movement across communities — and while some residents are raising serious privacy concerns, authorities say the purpose is quite different from what most people assume.
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