3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (260+ words) As cities drop Flock Safety over privacy concerns, Axon steps in with fewer cameras but no hard limits on how long plate data is stored The backlash against Flock didn’t kill license plate readers — it handed Axon a market opportunity....

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (218+ words) Toronto engineer John Tse used a Raspberry Pi and time-of-flight camera to make a quadcopter track a user’s head hands-free The build is genuinely clever — a quadcopter disguised so well it takes a second look to spot the propellers. What…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (257+ words) Axon eyes hardware redesign and rebranding as plate-reader vandalism forces cities like Denver and Syracuse to swap Flock contracts Flock Safety’s ALPR brand became toxic fast — and the physical backlash spreading across 36 states is now reshaping how its competitors think…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (190+ words) Starman Optical’s $285M deal wipes $92M in GoPro debt and targets AI data centers, defense drones, and aerospace by end of 2026 What the deal actually means, in plain terms: What happens when a YouTube star acquires 8.5% of the company whose camera he…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (312+ words) Flock Safety sells permanent public surveillance records while erasing its own website from the Internet Archive Two mechanisms let companies vanish from the Wayback Machine — and Flock used the more deliberate one. Here’s what’s now harder to independently verify: “Blocking…...