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A hobby project on the side. I bought a Mavic Pro Gen1 shell and its GL200A remote for a few euros, sold as non-functional. Rather than just repairing them, I wanted to understand how they talk to each other . This is my logbook — and I want to be upfront that I'm a beginner at reverse engineering, standing on the shoulders of a community that did the hard work. First: is this legal? It's the que…

The next attempt was the standard Maps URL: window . open ( `https://maps.google.com/maps?daddr= ${ lat } , ${ lng } ` , ' _blank ' ); This opens Maps, but in the browser — not the app. And it shows the route preview, not turn-by-turn navigation. What worked: Android Intent URLs Android supports a special URL scheme that tells Chrome to launch a native app directly: window . location . href = `in…

French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.

Most of us experience data by looking at screens filled with charts, graphs and numbers. But what if you could actually feel your data instead of just seeing it? Researchers at the University of Adelaide have developed an experimental wearable glove called ThermoPhy that turns information into physical sensations. The glove uses heat, touch and […] The post New wearable glove lets people feel the…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 19 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-37819-x Secure adaptive federated learning for scalable anomaly detection in industrial IoT networks

Imagine navigating a sprawling subway system or a dark tunnel where Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals cannot reach. For decades, this has been a technological blind spot. Researchers have now developed a novel navigation method that reads a building's unique magnetic "fingerprint" to determine its location with unprecedented accuracy.

My motorcycle has a Bluetooth instrument cluster. It pairs with the manufacturer's phone app and shows turn-by-turn navigation right on the dash, which sounds great until you actually use it. The nav is routed through a maps provider I don't love, the app is clunky, and there's no way to extend any of it. I kept thinking: it's just my bike talking to my phone over Bluetooth. How locked down can i…

Arriving six years after Google’s last smart speaker, the new HomePod-style device was redesigned to play host to Gemini’s chatbot.

This paper introduces a distributed reinforcement learning-based MAC protocol designed for high-density educational IoT environments. In smart campuses, the reliability of real-time data from student wearable sensors and classroom environmental monitors is often hampered by hidden-node interference as well as network collisions. This phenomenon disrupts the synchronicity required for effective Hu…

Introduction Modern embedded development and wireless testing often require multiple specialized tools for analyzing Wi-Fi networks, testing NFC cards, and capturing infrared signals. Commercial devices such as Flipper Zero, Proxmark3, and Wi-Fi Pineapple provide these capabilities but are often expensive and difficult for students and beginner developers to access. To address this challenge, we …

This blog post introduces System for AI Factories to better understand how the digital twins with Simcenter Systems solutions help designing modern Data Centers for Cooling, Power and Microgrid.

Digital connectivity has become a strategic geopolitical contest shaping the future of the global internet. This report examines China’s global digital infrastructure investments and the ways that the United States and its allies can leverage blended finance, partnerships, and policy to close the digital divide while offering a credible alternative to China’s expanding digital influence. The post…

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

A practical IEEE Internet of Things Journal submission-process walkthrough: the IEEE Author Portal workflow, multi-society Associate-Editor routing, the 6.9-week first-decision timeline, and what each status means before and after review.

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…