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• Position: TECHNOLOGY - Food delivery using drones - Brief article

In September, a few students at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, got to see the future of food delivery: A drone flying above campus dropped packages of Chipotle burritos onto a grassy field for them to grab and eat. It was all part of an experiment by X (formerly Google X) to test the feasibility of delivering food by air. Drones are often associated with warfare because the U.S. and other nations use them to target enemies with surgical precision, but all kinds of industries are using drones. NASA sends them into Earth's stratosphere to monitor climate change, real estate firms use them to take aerial shots of properties, and...