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Drones to deliver incessant buzzing noise, and packages

  • Written by Garth Paine, Associate Professor of Digital Sound and Interactive Media, Arizona State University
It's going to get loud.Alexey Laputin/Shutterstock.com

A sister company of Google, Alphabet’s Wing Aviation, just got federal approval to start using drones for commercial delivery. Amazon’s own drone-delivery program is ready to launch as well. As drones take flight, the world is about to get a lot louder – as if neighborhoods...

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