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XGRIDS has completed an air-ground integrated 3D Gaussian model of Minning Town covering 23.5 square kilometers, built from 6.2 billion Gaussians, 15 billion radar point-cloud points and 186,000 images. The model was used in China Media Group's documentary Minning Avenue, Leiphone reported.
TechRadar's review says the Worx Landroid Vision Cloud WR306E delivers precise, consistent edge-to-edge mowing using camera and cloud RTK navigation, but setup is involved and the app takes time to master. It sells for £899 in the UK.
A Colorado woman is suing Flock Safety, two towns and two officers, saying a warrantless license plate reader search led police to wrongly accuse her of stealing a $25 package.
A writer testing the $269 Kiwibit Bird Feeder 2 Pro found its AI camera could identify small garden birds, but a common wood pigeon ignored the feeder’s nuisance alarm and forced the device into storage.
A 20-day test of more than 3,000 photos finds Gloam, Project Indigo and Apple's native Camera app offer distinct approaches to iPhone 18 Pro photography, from film simulation to restrained computational rendering and manual controls.
Flock plans to cut about 18% of its workforce, roughly 270 jobs, as the AI surveillance company faces growing opposition from communities, lawmakers and privacy advocates, Reuters reports.
A hands-on report from ifanr says Nvidia's DLSS 5 uses 3D-guided neural rendering to add realistic lighting, materials and detail to games. In NBA 2K27, it made players, jerseys and courts look closer to a real broadcast, but cut frame rates on an RTX 5080 from 120 fps to about 45 fps.
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, a 7B open-weight checkpoint that generates and edits 2K images in eight denoising steps instead of 40, backed by a hosted API priced at CNY 0.1 per image.
Flock Safety, the Atlanta maker of AI-powered license plate readers, plans to lay off roughly 18 percent of its staff — about 270 people — sources say, as states, cities and retailers pull back from its surveillance cameras.
iOS 27 adds Apple Intelligence video descriptions and clip search to HomeKit Secure Video, plus 4K recording and notifications that update in real time, 9to5Mac reports.
Police departments are expanding AI-powered real-time crime centers like Axon's Fusus, while privacy experts warn the tools create broader surveillance risks than Flock cameras.
Leiphone.com reports that Tsinghua professor Dai Jifeng's Naive AI raised $400 million in three rounds in seven months at a $1.42 billion valuation, while Benewake expands robot lidar and MSRA veteran Zhang Lei's legacy shapes China's AI talent pool.
A purely visual ARC method from Kaiming He's team, NAT-ARC uses ImageNet MAE pretraining and reaches 63.4% single-model and 70.2% ensemble pass@2 on ARC-1.
Teardowns suggest Google Photos may add face and pet filters in albums and let users edit their 2026 Recap.
Nvidia's DLSS 5, which reprocesses finished game frames using a neural network trained on real-world imagery, has debuted in NBA 2K27. A hands-on account reports sharper skin, fabric and floor detail, alongside a steep frame-rate drop on RTX 50-series hardware.
Researchers from PhAI Labs, CUHK, Fudan, Stanford, Oxford and Princeton have released JEPA-Anything, a domain-agnostic framework that applies one shared learning recipe to build world models across seven fields, according to MarkTechPost. Its Orthogonal Predictive Factorization splits a JEPA target into orthogonal factors and improves matched dynamics tasks, while planning gains remain environment-dependent.
Report says North Richland Hills, Texas, quoted a $2.3 million fee for public records on Flock's AI camera system.
Judge: Flock's license plate network is 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'; a police database search violated the Fourth Amendment.
Woman says Flock camera error led to 13 days in jail as Senate pressure grows over data privacy.
Car thefts in San Francisco fell nearly 59% in the first eight months of 2026 compared with 2022, and break-ins dropped more than 82%. Police credit surveillance technology including Flock Safety's AI license plate cameras, but a new study and privacy concerns leave questions about how much credit the system deserves.
VIDIZMO pitches facial recognition for Flock camera data, despite Flock CEO saying his firm won't add it.
Neko Health, co-founded by Spotify's David Ek, has launched in New York with a $500 one-hour body scan and a 300,000-person global waitlist.
Senator Bernie Sanders introduces the Ban Flock Act to bar federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers or accessing data from local police and private companies.
Insta360 launches Spatial Capture, a free beta feature turning 360 video into navigable 3D scenes for X6, X5 and X4 Air.