Map the World by Bilawal Sidhu

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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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June 2026

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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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May 2026

Google Just Turned Street View Into a Video Game

Here’s the coolest thing Google shipped at I/O, what they didn't, and why a Korean research paper shows where they might go next.

May 21 • Bilawal Sidhu

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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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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April 2026

Inside Palantir's Maven Smart System

How Al Picks 1,000+ Targets a Day -- The OODA Loop Compressed to Real Time

Apr 30 • Bilawal Sidhu

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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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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The Ceasefire That Wasn’t

What Open-Source Intelligence Revealed About the Iran Ceasefire and US Naval Blockade.

Apr 15 • Bilawal Sidhu

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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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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March 2026

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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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