Spotify creates a refund process for its discontinued Car Thing gadget, as consumers sue claiming Spotify misled them by selling a soon-to-be obsolete product
how to get your money back before Spotify bricks it Tim Marcin / Mashable : Spotify to refund Car Thing purchases. Here's how to get yours. Ayomide Sadiq / TalkAndroid.com : Public Fury Works: Spotify...
Investigation: of 14 laptops with trackers given to UK retailers to recycle, 10 were recycled correctly; others were sold, likely stolen, or took long journeys
Every year about 30,000 tonnes of electronic waste is illegally shipped out of Britain. Much is destined for developing countries … Tweets: @willgreenpeace , @restartproject , @alexandraheal , @upyor...
An investigation shows Amazon, Microsoft, and others destroy millions of data storage devices each year, creating huge waste when software wiping methods exist
Companies like Amazon and Microsoft routinely destroy used hard drives in the name of data security — but industry insiders say there is a better option Tweets: @halvarflake , @financialtimes , @pt , ...
European Commission proposes legislation mandating USB-C charging for mobile devices, citing electronic waste; Apple is the main USB-C holdout
an initiative it says will reduce environmental waste but that is likely to hit Apple the hardest. https://www.nytimes.com/... @fasterthanlime : Will Apple waste 45-55% energy efficiency to avoid comp...
European Commission proposes legislation mandating USB-C charging for mobile devices, citing electronic waste; Apple is the main USB-C holdout
LONDON (AP) — The European Union unveiled plans Thursday that would require smartphone makers to adopt a single charging method for mobile devices. Source: European Commission .
An in-depth look at the global efforts to push back against planned obsolescence in tech products, a scandalous practice, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic
John Harris / The Guardian : Tweets: @dingos1946 , @jonathanwatts , and @rachelcoldicutt Tweets: @dingos1946 : “feature of modern manufacturing known as planned obsolescence. This is the idea that so...
Federal appeals court upholds a 15-month prison sentence for e-waste recycler Eric Lundgren for making Windows restore disks
A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to federal prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court in Miami rejected …