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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.
Radio Was Built to Communicate. Now It Can See. Here’s How.
Radio waves were built to carry information. Now AI is learning to read the physical world hidden inside their reflections. But the story goes back much further.
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.
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.
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 hormuz open or closed?
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.
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.
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 yourself.
Inside Palantir's Maven Smart System
How Al Picks 1,000+ Targets a Day -- The OODA Loop Compressed to Real Time
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.
How These Satellites See What Cameras Can't.
How synthetic aperture radar is reshaping surveillance, infrastructure monitoring, and military intelligence.
The Ceasefire That Wasn’t
What Open-Source Intelligence Revealed About the Iran Ceasefire and US Naval Blockade.
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.
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.
Your WiFi Can See You. Here's How.
Why RF is the next great sensing frontier — from your living room to low Earth orbit.
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
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.
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.
The $600 Seat That Isn't in the Stadium
How computer vision, AI, and volumetric capture are reshaping sports viewing.
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.