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Amazon Competitor Gets Blessing for Drone Delivery Tests

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Alphabet, parent company of Google, Boston Dynamics, and a slew of other high-tech companies, has been cleared to test its drone delivery service in the US.

According to CNET, the tests are part of a new initiative from the US National Science Foundation, "which plans to spend $35 million over the next five years" researching unmanned aircraft flight.

Amazon, which itself has hopes to get its delivery service off the ground, literally, initially expected to have Amazon-drones delivering your wares in 2015. However, new drone regulations from the Federal Aviation Administration meant Amazon's plans were blocked from coming to fruition.

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