2024-12-26
Our growing reliance on technology at home and in the workplace has raised the profile of e-waste. This consists of discarded electrical devices including laptops, smartphones, televisions, computer servers, washing machines, medical equipment, games consoles and much more. The amount of e-waste produced this decade could reach as much as 5 million metric tonnes, according to recent research published in Nature. This is around 1,000 times more e-waste than was produced in 2023. According to the study, the boom in artificial intelligence wi [...]
2025-02-13
We called 2023’s Galaxy Watch 6 a “modest upgrade” from the Galaxy Watch 5, which itself also got described as “very similar” to its predecessor, the Watch 4. So it’s perhaps not surprisin [...]
2025-05-15
Europe has been turning uranium into energy for over half a century. In the process, the continent has amassed vast stockpiles of nuclear waste. This radioactive material can take millions of years to [...]
2025-05-23
After threatening Apple with a 25 percent tariff unless the company found a way to move iPhone production to the US, Bloomberg reports that President Donald Trump wants the tariff applied to other pho [...]
2025-03-21
A new bipartisan bill could fundamentally change Section 230, the cornerstone law protecting internet platforms in the United States, by giving it an expiration date.<br /> The article New bipar [...]