If you have hard drives that no longer serve you, maybe due to limited storage or finicky operation, it might be time to finally get rid of them. First, if it does still work, consider ways you can ...

Some computers are ready for a new lease on life. Computer companies come out with new machines every year: faster, better, more powerful, more efficient, and sometimes even cheaper. But what do you ...

Whether you repurpose it, rehome it, or recycle it, that dusty old computer in your closet may still be surprisingly valuable. Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural ...

Have an old computer lying around the house? Don't just throw it away. Computers house all sorts of toxins that are bad for the environment and all of us who live in it. Not to mention the personal ...

Memories have been a staple of our psyche throughout human history and have even served an evolutionary purpose by helping us learn from and avoid bad experiences. They also help us digest information ...

We recommend backing up your data and then erasing your computer's storage before donating, selling, or recycling your machine. Best Buy has a pretty extensive and well-known trade-in program that ...

When we launched our Help Desk a few weeks ago, we asked all of you to let us help you tackle the most pressing technology problems you’re facing right now. And boy, did you ever deliver. Right now, ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 ...

I've been going through my office over the last few days since work was slow. I came to realize that I had 12 bare mechanical hard drives squirreled away, with birth dates from 2004 (WD Raptors) to ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County,Oklahoma, ...

At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 disassembling old hard disk drives by hand in order to extract a 2-inch-long component known ...