China’s new 500 Megapixel Surveillance Camera

Scientists at Fudan University and the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics in China have developed a camera with the extreme resolution of 500 megapixels. The super camera is equipped with artificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition, real-time monitoring and cloud computing technology to enable it to recognise individual faces in a crowd of thousands.

Every year many oysters are stolen from oyster farms around the globe, not only resulting in loss of income for the farmers but also in damage done to the farms. Oyster farms tend to be spread out over rather large areas making monitoring difficult or even impossible. A French company now has come to the rescue with an IoT spy oyster.

Finally, Elektor are bringing you the essential guide of what to do should a Zombie Apocalypse hit. This indispensable guide to survival after Z-day, written by hardware hacker and zombie anthropologist Simon Monk, will teach you how to generate your own electricity, salvage parts, craft essential electronics and out-survive the undead.

People who know their online communications are being monitored by government authorities, are less willing to voice dissenting opinions, an empirical study concludes. The thought of being watched increases people's tendency to keep their political views to themselves when they disagree with the majority opinion. Such self-censorship undermines an open, democratic debate, the author warns.