The right-to-repair movement's biggest villain said it would prefer federal repair rules over a patchwork of "confusing" state laws. Reading time 3 minutes Apple, once a perpetual thorn in the side of ...

SEATTLE — When you buy a product and it breaks, your ability to fix it yourself—or send it to an independent repair shop—is often limited or thwarted by the manufacturer. Although the practice is ...

Sandia Computers technician Bobby Foster often sees customers opt to buy a new laptop instead of getting their old one fixed, a decision he can’t blame them for since it can be cheaper to just buy new ...

Today’s consumer electronics are lightweight, sophisticated, powerful –– and are contaminating the environment. The United Nations’s Global E-waste Monitor 2024 report estimates that some 62 million ...