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Drones will be a popular gift this holiday season, with as many as 400,000 consumer versions of them flying off the shelves before the end of the year.

The government has lined up a number of drone and pilot industry groups behind an effort to get operators to register their aircraft and has formed a task force to spell out specific rules, but questions remain about how the requirement will be enforced and how much help it will be in tracking down operators who fly dangerously.

etailers are in for a strong holiday season, according to two forecasts out today.

Early holiday promotions and rising online shopping took a toll on in-store U.S. sales during the Thanksgiving weekend as shoppers on average spent 6.4 percent less than they did a year earlier, according to data released Sunday by an industry group.

Meet Micro, a cube-shaped 3D printer that could stand on your desk or kitchen counter, carrying on its plastic shoulders part of an effort to turn Maryland into a center of a fast-growing technology. Micros will soon be shipping out by the thousands from new plant in Howard County as one of the lowest-priced personal 3D printers.

A new group's efforts to make state and local government more interactive and transparent are badly needed in Maryland.