By 2017, the global volume of discarded refrigerators, TVs, cellphones, computers, monitors and other electronic waste will weigh almost as much as 200 Empire State Buildings, a new report...
STRATEGIES FOR YOUR BUSINESS’S EXCESS INVENTORY
If you have items that have been sitting on your shelves for some time, it's costing you money. You're paying storage and other costs and you're missing...
5 Ways to Deal with Obsolete Technology
Just because something's obsolete doesn't mean it's not useful. In your spare time, there are plenty of fun things that you can do with old phones, tablets and...
Here come the autonomous robot security guards: What could possibly go wrong?
Showing a rather shocking disregard for the long-term safety of human civilization, Microsoft has become one of the first companies to deploy autonomous robot security guards. Dubbed...
New metal lets today’s 3D printers make tomorrow’s electronics
When entrepreneur Michael Toutonghi and his son wanted to make a rocket in their family basement, they went about it in a thoroughly modern way: though the...
Using SMART to accurately predict when a hard drive is about to die
SMART, which first started to appear in consumer hard drives about 10 years ago, is a brilliant concept — it’s meant to tell you if a hard...