For residents and tourists alike, Google Maps Street View is an exceptionally useful navigational tool. However, not every country has welcomed Google's iconic Street View cars to their streets.
In collaboration with Quantum Systems and Trimble, Phase One announced a state-of-the-art 128-megapixel camera purpose-built for survey-grade applications. [Read More]
Michigan Supreme Court has heard a remarkable case in which a man has complained that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated after the township he lives in hired a drone photographer to spy on his property. [Read More]
Raspberry Pi, makers of single-board computers and tiny cameras, has come under fire from members of its user base that are upset the company hired a former police officer who used the products to covertly surveil targets. [Read More]
This may sound like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, but Canon has rolled out new AI cameras that use “smile recognition” technology to ensure that only happy employees are allowed into its offices.
Researchers have designed a new, dual camera platform with the aim of making up for the poor resolution output that comes with most 360-degree cameras. 360-degree field of view cameras of varying types and price ranges have been available in consumer and specialist security markets for some time now. They are often used for virtual […]
There are many videos online showing how helicopters can look like they’re magically floating when their rotors are synced with a camera’s frame rate. But here’s a new video of something we’ve never seen before: a floating bird.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the city will trial a new artificial intelligence tool that detects guns.
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New documents reveal that the FBI has been testing artificially intelligent (AI) facial recognition software on Americans for almost a decade. [Read More]
Midwest Photo has been burglarized in a big way for a second time in five years. Surveillance video caught a truck crashing into the store as the opening act to the crime. [Read More]
Sony only recently got its sensor business back on its feet after its main factory was heavily damaged by the the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes in Japan. If you’ve been curious as to just how badly the Kumamoto plant was hit, check out the 8-minute video above showing the first public footage of the moments of […]
The priceyness and portability of photo gear makes camera rental and retail outlets a popular target of burglars, and last week yet another big name in the industry was looted. The camera store Midwest Photo in Columbus, Ohio, was broken into on March 15th, and a huge number of items were stolen. The burglars got […]
A photographer captured the huge aerial surveillance operation above the APEC summit in San Francisco last week with an awesome image that combines 150 long exposure photos. [Read More]
A Chinese video surveillance system is publicly shaming people who jaywalk in the street.
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Artificially intelligent (AI) surveillance camera technology that can find out who a person's friends are and is used in China to track citizens is now available in the U.S. [Read More]
Students in China have invented a $71 “invisibility cloak” that hides wearers from artificial intelligence (AI) security cameras. [Read More]