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Obstacle avoidance is a crucial piece of technology for drones, but commercially-available systems just aren’t fast enough for some situations. Now, engineers at the University of Zurich have developed a new system that gives drones such fast reflexes … Continue reading Drone plays dodgeball to demo fast new obstacle detection system
Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. In May of last year, San Francisco banned facial recognition; the neighboring city of Oakland soon followed, as did Somerville and Brookline in Massachusetts (a s… Continue reading Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate
Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. In May of last year, San Francisco banned facial recognition; the neighboring city of Oakland soon followed, as did Somerville and Brookline in Massachusetts (a statewide ban may follow). In December, San Diego suspended a facial recognition program in advance of a new statewide law, which declared it… Continue reading Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate
Special Services Group, a company that sells surveillance tools to the FBI, DEA, ICE, and other US government agencies, has had its secret sales brochure published. Motherboard received the brochure as part of a FOIA request to the Irvine Police Department in California. "The Tombstone Cam is our newest video concealment offering the ability to conduct remote surveillance operations from… Continue reading Police Surveillance Tools from Special Services Group
Special Services Group, a company that sells surveillance tools to the FBI, DEA, ICE, and other US government agencies, has had its secret sales brochure published. Motherboard received the brochure as part of a FOIA request to the Irvine Police Depart… Continue reading Police Surveillance Tools from Special Services Group
New South Wales is implementing a camera system that automatically detects when a driver is using a mobile phone…. Continue reading Cameras that Automatically Detect Mobile Phone Use
Cameras are getting less and less conspicuous. Now they’re hiding under the skin of robots.
A team of researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland have recently created a multi-camera optical tactile sensor that is able to monitor the space around it based on contact force distribution. The sensor uses a …read more
Continue reading Robotic Skin Sees When (and How) You’re Touching It
In a world of hackable things, protocols in surveillance cameras sometimes get overlooked. The cameras used in commercial buildings aren’t necessarily a priority for researchers looking for the next big intrusion, and the devices are often seen as one-dimensional targets that only yield the data they collect. But that misses the point of how a camera can be a gateway to other devices in a building. Hacking an internet-connected camera could give an attacker a pathway to a device controlling physical access to a facility, for example. That concern prompted researchers at Forescout Technologies to dissect surveillance cameras in their test lab in the Netherlands. What they found were widely used cameras using weak communication protocols to transmit data over unencrypted channels. The researchers were able to carry out a “man-in-the-middle attack,” which intercepts and manipulates data, to replace footage recorded by the camera with their own. Altering security footage at an airport, for example, could be […]
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Only a year has passed since Sony rolled out its ultra-compact RX100 VI with blazing fast autofocus, but the company has already deemed it fit for a refresh. The RX100 VII arrives with the same 24-200mm telephoto lens as its predecessor, but … Continue reading Sony ramps up its blistering autofocus with RX100 VII ultra-compact camera
Lens filters are an important tool for many DSLR photographers, but dealing with different diameter lenses, stepping-rings, square filter mounts and the rest can be frustrating and expensive. But now, an ingenious filter system for mirrorless camera adapter mounts looks to shake everything up – except your photos.
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Continue Reading Aurora Aperture’s revolutionary filter system sits behind the lens
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Continue reading Aurora Aperture's revolutionary filter system sits behind the lens