Watchtower / What’s new
Product updates
Major releases, new datasets and useful improvements—with release dates and links to explore what changed.
Follow updates via RSS →Session reconnection, map stability and clearer evidence links
Watchtower now reconnects interrupted sessions automatically, repairs map selection and tile-query failures, and makes large evidence reads and source navigation more resilient.
Read update →The extended Watchtower guide: workspaces, workflows and new features
A searchable handbook connects Watchtower's workspaces, everyday research workflows and recent additions, with an offline PDF and editable Markdown edition.
Read update →Company-country flags for stocks and quotes
Stock displays now prefer the company's source-reported country, helping distinguish a company's nationality from the exchange where its shares trade.
Read update →Pacific fibre connections and underwater utility routes
Infrastructure gains a Pacific-centred view, clearly labelled cable-system connections, and globally visible mapped underwater power cables and pipelines.
Read update →Commodity Atlas: gas plants, neon and gas-specific labels
Explore source-backed gas-production and recovery facilities by gas and process, with a dedicated Neon shortcut and clearly marked locality references.
Read update →Fear & Greed returns, alongside clearer bond-yield moves
A separate Fear & Greed tab restores cross-asset gauges and adds worldwide regional and covered-country views, while bond rows show basis points, percentage points and relative yield changes.
Read update →Natural Hazards: global warnings, volcanic ash and landslide context
Natural Hazards brings together retained global Weather Alerts, broader volcanic source records, published ash-cloud forecast areas, landslide reports and optional fault-line layers.
Read update →Worldwide markets with clearer units, flags and currency references
A consistent market view brings source-dated benchmarks, currency flags, native units and inspectable coverage to Market Overview, Markets and Global Markets.
Read update →Ancap Welcomeness: clear country scores and a faster opening view
Bayes Threat now opens with a 0–100 country estimate based on the original Ancap value framework, with evidence coverage, source-sensitive ranges and the reasons behind each score.
Read update →MCP: current datasets and paginated data access
Watchtower MCP expands its reviewed dataset catalogue and replaces oversized data-getter errors with readable, snapshot-bound pages.
Read update →Cleaner workspaces with collapsible raw source data
Supporting source blocks now sit in a collapsed box at the bottom of affected tabs, leaving the main maps and analysis first.
Read update →My Watchtower: your watchlists, daily briefing and selective inbox
A private daily workflow connects source-linked changes, personalized briefings, forecast outcomes and selective watchlist alerts.
Read update →Advanced Search: news, social posts and source records
Watchtower Search joins Advanced view, with expanded retained news and social coverage, indexed record excerpts and source-qualified map links.
Read update →Snapshot recovery, map stability and clearer health diagnostics
Calendar and Linked Events recover from changing source snapshots, classic geopolitical maps keep usable fullscreen space, and App Health distinguishes measured long tasks from ambiguous timer delays.
Read update →Country taxes, fees and more transparent Bayes scoring
Bayes Threat adds country tax-and-fee evidence beside its calculations, with explicit source scope, historical fee labels and stronger missing-input scoring rules.
Read update →Energy prices, futures and power-station generation
Forecast Lab adds an Energy workspace for global benchmarks, regional fuel prices, futures curves and production-linked evidence. Infrastructure now distinguishes power-station capacity from annual generation.
Read update →Aviation investigations, observed replay and private API connections
Aviation adds observed-history replay, richer aircraft investigation tools, airport and weather context, cloud watches, and customer-owned paid-data connections.
Read update →Systemic Risk: clearer evidence, defined forecasts and outcome tracking
Systemic Risk now connects source-qualified conditions with Forecast Lab research targets, immutable evidence and a prospective validation record.
Read update →Global weather alerts with country-by-country coverage
Weather Alerts now includes a worldwide explorer, original warning instructions, all severity levels, map boundaries and transparent coverage for 249 countries and territories.
Read update →Debt clocks with traceable source data
Explore dated debt balances and optional running estimates in Global Debt, then pin the same clocks to Signal Board.
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