America Recycles Day, a Keep America Beautiful national initiative, is the only nationally-recognized day dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling in the United States. Each year, on and in the weeks leading into Nov. 15, thousands of communities across the country participate by promoting environmental citizenship and taking action to increase and improve recycling efforts …
Researchers at the University of Waterloo are one step closer towards creating smart devices that do not require the use of batteries or require charging. These battery-free objects, which feature an IP address for internet connectivity, are known as Internet of Things (IoT) devices. If an IoT device can operate without a battery, it lowers …
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Scrap buyers in China greatly reduced their purchases from other parts of the world in September, with the largest contributing factor likely to be the tariffs that China’s government placed on several scrap commodities shipped from the United States, as part of the seemingly omnipresent trade dispute. Statistics issued by the General Administration of Customs of …
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Researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands have discovered that widely used data storage devices with self-encrypting drives do not provide the expected level of data protection. This is due to a malicious expert with direct physical access to widely sold storage devices with the ability to bypass existing protection mechanisms and access the data …
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This Veterans Day 2018 is especially significant, as it marks the 100th anniversary of when the armistice began which ended World War I – at 11:00 am on November 11, 1918. Congress first passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance and in 1938, Nov. 11 became a national holiday. Unlike Memorial Day, Veterans …
Provided is a weekly snapshot of the recent right-to-repair, IoT and battery related news that HOBI’s blog reported during the week 11/05-11/09. U.S. passes landmark decision in the right-to-repair movement While physically repairing devices has not gotten any easier, consumers now have easier ways of legally getting their electronic devices repaired. This is thanks to …
Smartphone battery life may be on the decline due to the increasing demands new technologies place on lithium-ion batteries, according to smartphone testing done by The Washington Post. In a series of battery life test conducted by The Washington Post showed that newer smartphones were not able to last as long as older devices on a …
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In today’s society, it is pretty common knowledge (and a given) that e-commerce is booming more than it ever has and with consumers increasing using online stores to not only search for the best deal but to make a transaction, there has been a longstanding risk that the traditional store will lose relevance. To avoid …
According to a recent IDC and Zerto report, 43 percent of organizations are planning a cloud-first IT strategy as a high priority project to take place within the next 12 months. However, the cloud is no longer just a “one-and-done” technology. Instead, it is a multi-channel strategy that organizations need to be prepared for. According …
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While today’s phones and laptops are only getting more difficult to repair physically, it’s at least getting easier to legally do so thanks to a new decision by the U.S. Library of Congress and its Copyright Office. The two bodies have issued new rules that will effectively make it legal for consumers and third parties …
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