Map the World by Bilawal Sidhu

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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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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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February 2026

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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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January 2026

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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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December 2025

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 • Bilawal Sidhu

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