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Radio Was Built to Communicate. Now It Can See. Here’s How.
From DARPA’s through-wall radar to $22 mmWave chips and 5G/6G networks -- AI is learning to map the physical world from radio reflections.
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IronSight: Turning 2D Videos Into 4D Reconstructions of Reality
I turned range footage from Ray-Bans and GoPros into a replay I can fly through -- and built the exam that keeps it honest.
Jul 15
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Enemy of the State Wasn't Fiction. It Was a Roadmap.
Enemy of the State wasn’t fiction. It was a roadmap. WAMI camera systems can watch an entire city, record everything, and let you rewind time.
Jul 1
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A Circle on a Map Can Unmask You. Meanwhile Apple Remade the Map Itself.
The Supreme Court is deciding what one warrant really unlocks -- and Apple quietly shipped 3d gaussian splatting to 350 cities. Plus, is the strait of…
Jun 22
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Google Just Turned Street View Into a Video Game
Here’s what Google shipped at I/O, what they haven’t, and why a Korean research paper shows where they might go next.
May 21
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I Built a Spy Satellite Simulator in a Browser. Here's What I Learned.
Feb 24
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The Intelligence Monopoly Is Over. Creating a God's Eye View of the Iran Strikes.
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One Chokepoint Controls Everything. Building a God's Eye View of the Hormuz Crisis.
Apr 4
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Your WiFi Can See You. Here's How.
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Building a 3D Model of the World from Internet Photos
For 17 years, the math only worked on famous landmarks. Last month, a Cornell lab cracked the long tail.
May 14
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Your Smart TV Shares Everything You Watch -- Soon It Will Watch You
A screenshot every 500 milliseconds, matched against a database, sold to the highest bidder. Inside the surveillance system you paid for and turned on…
May 7
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Inside Palantir's Maven Smart System
How Al Picks 1,000+ Targets a Day -- The OODA Loop Compressed to Real Time
Apr 30
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How to See Through Walls With Off-the-Shelf VPS and Meta Ray-Bans
The same defense capability Anduril sells to the DoD, recreated on consumer gear -- and how you can try it yourself.
Apr 25
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How These Satellites See What Cameras Can't.
How synthetic aperture radar is reshaping surveillance, infrastructure monitoring, and military intelligence.
Apr 17
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The Ceasefire That Wasn’t
What Open-Source Intelligence Revealed About the Iran Ceasefire and US Naval Blockade.
Apr 15
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One Chokepoint Controls Everything. Building a God's Eye View of the Hormuz Crisis.
How Open-Source Intelligence Could Reveal What's Coming Next.
Apr 4
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Pokémon Go Built a Secret 3D Map of the World. So Did Everyone Else.
Every layer of the physical world is already being mapped. Most people are part of the dataset and don't know it.
Mar 22
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Your WiFi Can See You. Here's How.
Why RF is the next great sensing frontier — from your living room to low Earth orbit.
Mar 17
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The Intelligence Monopoly Is Over. Creating a God's Eye View of the Iran Strikes.
How I Reconstructed Operation Epic Fury From My Couch Using Public Data And An Army of AI Agents.
Mar 4
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I Built a Spy Satellite Simulator in a Browser. Here's What I Learned.
How a weekend project got the attention of Palantir's co-founder.
Feb 24
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Why China Is Winning AI Video — And Are Game Engines Obsolete?
Two SOTA AI video models from China in one week, plus Google's Genie 3 sending gaming stocks into free-fall. Here's what it all means.
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