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Technical deep dives on spatial intelligence, personal safety, the human mesh, and what we’re shipping next.

March 29, 2026

GPS Spoofing Prevention in Location Games 2026

GPS spoofing is the biggest unresolved threat to location-based gaming — and every major game is still vulnerable. I’ve been building location-aware technology since 1997. From the world’s first metropolitan WiFi network in Arizona to…
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March 29, 2026

The Best Personal Safety Apps for Women in 2026 (And the One That Uses Real Mesh Technology)

Most personal safety apps are the same product with different icons — and they all fail in the exact scenarios where you need them most. A panic button. A countdown timer. A location share to…
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March 28, 2026

Your WiFi Router Is Already a Spatial Intelligence Sensor (You Just Haven’t Turned It On)

Your WiFi router is already watching you. The question is whether it’s watching for you. Every wireless signal you broadcast bounces off your body, your walls, your furniture — and returns changed. For decades, that…
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March 25, 2026

WiFi Sensing: How Wireless Signals Detect Humans Through Walls

Every WiFi router in your building is flooding every room with radio waves right now. Those signals pass through walls, bounce off furniture, and scatter off every human body in range — carrying rich spatial…
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March 25, 2026

Your Phone Is Already an AI Safety Device — You Just Haven’t Turned It On

Your phone is already listening to you. What if it were listening for you instead? Thirty-three years in wireless. I have watched phones evolve from voice-only bricks into sensor platforms that would have made a…
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March 24, 2026

Tripwire Recon vs. Pokémon GO: Which GPS Game Actually Uses Real Sensors?

Tripwire Recon vs. Pokémon GO: Which GPS Game Actually Uses Real Sensors? Most GPS games know where you tapped. Tripwire Recon is built to verify where you really are. Pokémon GO still runs on coordinate…
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March 21, 2026

Contested Spectrum and Tactical Mesh: Why CSMA/CA Fails When It Matters Most

In 2024, a peer-reviewed study in IEEE Communications Magazine documented what battlefield commanders had known empirically for years: conventional LoRa mesh networks collapse above 40–50 simultaneous nodes. Not degrade. Not slow down. Collapse — with…
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March 19, 2026

Edge AI Wearables and Spatial Intelligence: Why the Next Platform War Is Already Lost

Every major technology wave has a platform war. The browser wars determined who owned the internet. The app store wars determined who owned mobile. We are now inside the early innings of the spatial intelligence…
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March 18, 2026

Why Your Meshtastic Network Stops Scaling at 50 Nodes (And the Math Behind It)

Every Meshtastic forum eventually produces the same thread: “My network worked great with 10 nodes. Then I added more and everything got worse.” The replies are always the same — reduce rebroadcast rate, increase hop…
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March 18, 2026

Spatial Intelligence: Why Your Phone Is the Most Underused Sensor Platform on Earth

Your phone has a LiDAR scanner that can measure a room to ±1cm accuracy. Apple uses it for Portrait Mode. Google uses it for AR stickers. That’s it. Meanwhile, cities spend $2–5 million per survey…
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