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There’s lots of talk and speculation about what The Daily (the iPad-only news publication that is a joint venture between Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corp. and Apple) will do and look like. One rumor from The New York Observer is that the publication will use news-gathering drones. As if paparazzi weren’t obnoxious enough, one can imagine a city swarming with these small, agile, quadrocoptors, which are mounted with multiple cameras, can fly through narrow windows, and perch upside down. On one hand, the thought of noisy ariel drones congregating at newsworthy GPS coordinates is rather disturbing. On the other hand, perhaps it’s a good sign to see drones used for a functional purpose other than the one they’ve been used for previously: tracking and killing human beings.

Click here to view the Parrot drones suspected of being used for The Daily and/or view the flight capabilities of these machines in the video below.

Nathan Ihara is a publicist at Melville House. Previously, he was a book critic for the LA Weekly.