Abigail Avery

A former Thiel fellow’s startup just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters

When I speak to Blake Resnick, he’s walking around his drone startup’s newest office space in Seattle—a cavernous 50,000-square-foot facility that, Resnick estimates, won’t be fully set up until later in the year—potentially November. Still, the big (and for now, largely empty) building offers the promise of a fast-growing company intent on conquering its particular…

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The U.S. router ban: Everything you need to know

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday added all foreign-manufactured consumer routers to its Covered List — the federal government’s running blacklist of communications equipment deemed a national security threat. The move effectively bans the sale of new WiFi routers made outside the country. The ban is sweeping, as virtually every consumer router on the market…

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