In a famous scene from the 1992 movie Sneakers, a hacker classic, the main characters park a surveillance van across the street from their target's office and point a telephoto lens through his window ...

Two US spy satellites exchanged more than 200 gigabits of data over a distance of about 100 kilometers using lasers. Spy satellites generally don't communicate directly with each other and never ...

Scientists in China have built a device capable of reading letters only millimeters wide from over a kilometer away. The laser, which could very well become an active spy tool, has achieved this ...

Scientists say they've developed a ludicrously keen-eyed laser device that can read the text in a book from a whopping 0.85 miles away. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Physical ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Eavesdropping from a distance can be tricky because it usually requires some sort of bug or transmitter. It's easy to transmit audio through ...

It’s clunky and awkward on the wrist, but what it lacks in flash it more than makes up for with its Spy functions. Billed as the Spy Net Video Watch, this new gadget from Jakks Pacific has a built-in ...

A United States defense contractor has revealed its first one-of-a-kind laser designed to be mounted onto spy drones and reportedly has the capability to melt missiles in mid-air. General Atomics ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...