Map the World by Bilawal Sidhu

I Open Sourced God’s Eye View

A spy satellite simulator in your browser, except the data is real. Live open source spatial intelligence on a photorealistic 3D globe.

Aug 25

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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.

Aug 2

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July 2026

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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Hollywood Imagined It. The Military Actually Built It.

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 what Google shipped at I/O, what they haven’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.

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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