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 ...

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Forward-looking: Western Digital has launched a large-scale hard disk drive recycling initiative in partnership with Microsoft, Critical Materials Recycling, and PedalPoint Recycling. The program, ...

"BECU is committed to helping our community members prevent identity theft by offering practical solutions to protecting their personal information," said Ken Kinloch, Information Protection Officer ...

Dell and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host an Earth Day computer recycling event for consumers in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area on April 22. The free event will take place at ...

You can destroy a hard drive by wiping its contents and disassembling its parts for ultimate security. If you're donating, selling, or recycling a computer, you'll want to make absolutely sure you're ...

So I've always thought that having magnets near hard-drives was bad for the hard-drives, yet these days all I see are magnet-tipped screw drivers. Even those "iFixit" branded ones, which are obviously ...

You open your hard drive to access an important presentation, only to find it missing. Suddenly, hours of work seem lost, and ...