More than two billion smartphones are in use around the world and the numbers are growing. So are the mountains of hazardous e-waste our tech addictions are fueling. But a leading expert believes changing the way smartphones are designed could help address the e-waste problem. A lot of people hold on to their smartphones until […]
Expert: Current Smartphone Design Not Sustainable
Posted March 17th, 2017 at 11:35 am (UTC-5)
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Q&A: World Short of Solutions As E-Waste Mounts
Posted August 1st, 2014 at 3:00 pm (UTC-5)
Technology is a wonderful thing. Occasionally, it has unfortunate byproducts. E-waste is one of them. Today’s tech-addicted world produces about 50 tons of e-waste every year, according to the United Nations University, a UN think tank. That ranges from cellphones to major appliances – anything with a plug, cartridge or battery. Industrialized countries generate part […]
Tech Sightings, March 19, 2014
Posted March 19th, 2014 at 2:20 pm (UTC-5)
New Research Claims Microsoft’s Bing Censors More Heavily Within China Than Baidu GreatFire, a Chinese Web monitoring service, has again raised objections that Microsoft’s Bing heavily censors within China, even more than domestic search engine Baidu. Bing came under fire last month for censoring China-related information worldwide. Internet Currency Helps Kenya Build Water Wells A […]
Tech Sightings, December 25, 2013
Posted December 25th, 2013 at 2:30 pm (UTC-5)
A New Use for Coal: Glowing Nanodots All that coal found in the stockings of naughty children today could be a source of cheap, nontoxic fluorescent nanoparticles useful for biomedicine. Apple Fined $670,000 In Taiwan For Price Fixing Another one of these little stories that show the difficulty that multinationals have around the world. What […]