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Inspired by Ariel Waldman’s docuseries Life Unearthed, columnist Annalee Newitz explores how microscopes, drones and specialised cameras are giving us an unprecedented view of nature from many different vantage points

Most WebRTC tutorials on iOS assume your video comes from the device camera. You call RTCCameraVideoCapturer , point it at the front lens, and the framework handles the rest. But a large class of real applications doesn't have a camera as the source at all — it has an IP camera, a dashcam, a drone feed, or some other device speaking RTSP, and the iOS app's job is to ingest that stream and republi…

In April, for the first time ever, an Earth observation satellite found what it was looking for, all on its own.

Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.

Scientific Reports, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-57412-6 Myco-barrier: edge-orchestrated post-detection mitigation of IoT botnets via an SDN-based virtual dynamic demilitarized zone

I kept hitting the same wall looking for an offline wiki. Kiwix is great, but it's an app plus multi-GB ZIM files. IPFS needs connectivity and setup. I just wanted something dead simple: a knowledge file you can open on any phone with no install , and hand to the next person over Bluetooth or a USB stick. So I built Portable Knowledge Mesh . It's one reader.html (~19 KB). You open it — even strai…

Here's how to stop your phone from staying on weak Wi-Fi and get it to quickly switch to cellular data.

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Faceless TikTok channels post 3-5 times a day. No filming, no editing software, no face on camera. The best ones gross $2K-10K/month from the Creator Fund and brand deals. And the entire content pipeline can be automated. The bottleneck isn't idea generation or scripting. It's video assembly. Taking a script, matching it with stock footage, adding TTS narr…

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You need video processing in your app. Converting formats, trimming clips, generating thumbnails, adding watermarks. Building this from scratch means installing FFmpeg on a server, managing queues, handling failures, and scaling infrastructure. Or you use an FFmpeg REST API and skip all of that. The problem: there are at least six services that claim to do…

Matter, Zigbee & Thread Device Migration – What Your Smart Home Needs Right Now Hey folks, Nick Creighton here – the voice you just heard on the latest SmartHome Wizardry episode. If you’ve ever felt like your home is a multilingual conference where nobody speaks the same language, you’re not alone. In this post I’m taking the audio‑only chat we had on the podcast and turning it into a hands‑on g…

Explore top technology partners helping enterprises modernize complex systems, reduce legacy debt, and scale digital infrastructure in 2026. Finding the right modernization partner is harder than the technical work itself. This list covers 10 focused, mid-sized technology companies that bring hands-on engineering depth.

My goal is to reduce the needed power as much as possible, in sum it should be under 30-40W. For this, I need to also disable my GPU in a way it consumes 0W or nearly 0W. I will use my CPU instead. I ...

With an initial capacity of 24 megawatts, the innovative data center uses seawater as a natural cooling system.

I took part in a hackathon in Vilnius the other weekend (courtesy of Basedcollective) during the pink soup festival. I brought along an old rotary phone and our two-man team spent the next 48 hours sticking our fingers in it. We wired a Raspberry Pi into the phone which interfaced with all of its IO and communicated with our server via a single websocket connection which controlled everything fro…

A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) that would mean the devices, as well as capture the license plate of passing vehicles, would also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars, potentially letting law enforcement identify specific drivers or passengers. The technology, called Signal…

Most BLE proximity features start with RSSI. That is fine when the product only needs a rough "near or far" signal. It becomes fragile when distance affects security, access control, asset tracking or industrial behavior. Bluetooth Channel Sounding changes that by adding a standardized ranging capability to Bluetooth LE. Instead of relying only on received signal strength, two compatible devices …

New York expands street sensors to map crossings, near-misses and traffic patterns.