Berkeleyside

From drones to video cameras, Berkeley police ask for more Flock surveillance tools

The City Council will vote Tuesday on the technology package amid opposition from privacy and immigration advocates.
The Robot Report

Advantech shows robotics, medical AI, and industrial edge products using NVIDIA Jetson Thor

Advantech says its ecosystem participation has yielded edge and physical AI products to accelerate robot development.
Digital Camera World

I found a 3D camera at The Photography & Video Show that works just like your brain. The Loreo Panfocus 28mm makes 3D almost as simple as a point-and-shoot

The Loreo Stereo Panfocus 28mm camera creates 3D image in the same way our brains do – and I came across one at The ...
IEEE

Signal-to-Noise Ratio Enhancements Enabling 1.6-km Outdoor Visible Light Communication Using Vehicle Lights and Cameras

Abstract: Light-based communications offer a promising alternative to alleviate congestion in crowded radio frequency bands and extend communication frequencies towards the THz range. This paper ...
IEEE

Robust Visual Odometry Using Rigidly-Bundled Arbitrarily-Arranged Multi-Cameras

Abstract: Making multi-camera visual SLAM systems easier to set up and more robust to the environment is attractive for vision robots. Existing monocular and binocular vision SLAM systems have narrow ...
CNET

The iPhone 17E Is Missing a Major Feature, but Here's Why That's a Good Thing

Commentary: I love the idea behind the dedicated Camera Control button on recent iPhones, but it keeps getting in the way. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Santa Clara County to stop using Flock Safety cameras in several cities after privacy concerns

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Santa Clara County will no longer use Flock Safety as the primary vendor for their license plate readers in Cupertino, Saratoga and Los Altos Hills after a vote by the Board ...
Tom's Guide

Android doesn't need its own Camera Control button when this hidden feature exists — here's how to set it up

Google Phones Pixel 10a just got way better thanks to a new desktop mode — and it’s just as good as Samsung DeX iPhones Apple buried these 3 genuinely useful iPhone features — here's how to find them ...
Reuters

China imposes export controls on 20 Japanese entities to curb ‘remilitarisation’

China targets Japanese entities it says supply military Beijing adds 20 other Japanese entities to export controls' watch list Japan says measures 'completely unacceptable', demands withdrawal BEIJING ...
BGR

5 Uncomfortable Truths About Using Ring Cameras

The Ring Video Doorbell, originally released in 2014 and later known as Amazon Ring, was supposed to be a simple means of connecting your front doorbell to your smartphone and letting you see who's at ...
Missoulian

Use of license plate reader cameras in Missoula raises privacy concerns

Businesses, including some in Missoula, are using a new network of automated license plate scanners, known as "Flock" cameras, to keep their premises and properties secure.
Wired

A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon

The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware. The ad ...