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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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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 today.
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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One Chokepoint Controls Everything. Building a God's Eye View of the Hormuz Crisis.
Monitoring the World's Most Critical Shipping Lane with Public Data and AI Agents.
Apr 4
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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.
Mar 4
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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.
Mar 17
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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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The Ceasefire That Wasn’t
What Open-Source Intelligence Revealed About the Iran Ceasefire and US Naval Blockade.
Apr 15
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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
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.
Feb 15
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The $600 Seat That Isn't in the Stadium
How computer vision, AI, and volumetric capture are reshaping sports viewing.
Feb 7
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Playable Reality Is Here. Stepping Inside Genie - Google's World Model
A hands-on look at the public launch of Project Genie and the dawn of playable reality. Turn text & images into interactive simulations.
Jan 29
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AI Breakthroughs Coming in 2026: World Models, Spatial Intelligence & Multimodality
The Year AI Stops Making Videos and Starts Simulating Worlds
Jan 7
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Beyond the Blue Dot: The Rise of Visual Positioning Systems (VPS)
Decoding VPS: The foundational tech for the next generation of AR and robotics to navigate the world.
Dec 30, 2025
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YouTube’s New Interactive Layer & Adobe in ChatGPT
YouTube’s prompt-to-play chapter and Adobe’s plan to solve your desktop chores inside ChatGPT.
Dec 21, 2025
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