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India’s expansive surveillance capabilities extend beyond cloning phones to accessing cloud-based data of tech giants., New Delhi, India – India has exempted an Israeli phone-hacking company from New Delhi’s own rules, allowing it to sell phone-extraction products and surveillance technology to government agencies and sparking concerns and criticism from rightsContinue Reading

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A new study finds that those factors could shrink the suitable habitat for many of nature’s hardiest plants. By Kiley Price Cacti are among the toughest plants on the planet, withstanding scorching temperatures and parched conditions that would wilt a more sensitive sprout. But climate change may threaten these hardyContinue Reading

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A new hardware project is using open-source hardware and software that adds Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and music streaming apps to decades old iPods. Sprout , by London-based FOSS folk Certain Things, is a “modern motherboard for old iPods” that requires no soldering. It even re-uses all of the iPod’s original parts,Continue Reading