Google plans to start delivering packages by drone in 2017

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Not the most in-depth of articles, but does contain the interesting insight that the Google drone design is “a hybrid of a plane and a helicopter that takes off vertically, then rotates to a horizontal position for flying around. The drones will lower products to the ground using a tether featuring a little bundle of electronics at the end that detect when a package has hit the ground”. This is of course the new battleground between Amazon, with its Prime ...