Thousands of discarded computers from western Europe and the US arrive in the ports of west Africa every day, ending up in massive toxic dumps where children burn and pull them apart to extract metals for cash.
“Ghana is increasingly becoming a dumping ground for waste from Europe and the US,” according to Mike Anane…

Six years ago the EU produced the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) directive, which introduced new curbs and restrictions on the movement of e-waste. The directive, which came into effect in Britain in January last…

No-cost steps to take BEFORE your diaries, home sex vids & bank accounts fall into the hands of a thieving stranger…

+1 by ac042186 at 10:52 PM on 05/05/08 Reply by Email * At my university, they've been trying to promote STOP security plates. But I think it's supposed to help you recover your laptop/item more than prevent it from being stolen….

As a high-profile lawsuit against Best Buy’s Geek Squad technical support service gets ready for court, a new employee confession has come through detailing one of the company’s more questionable policies.

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Engineers are building inexpensive, tabletop, touch-screen displays and sharing the instructions online.

Wagenknecht says that her system works in a similar way. Cubit is a boxy table with a clear surface. The single camera inside the table can be a simple webcam with an added infrared filter, and a small image projector can be purchased for about…

The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every hour. The subject lines are disquieting: “Cyails, Vygara nad Levytar,” “UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you.”

But the problem would largely disappear if server administrators configured their mail servers to immediately reject mail that is sent to nonexistent users, rather than accepting it and then bouncing it back to the faked addresses. Some ISPs…

From 1 transistor on a chip in the 1950's to over 592,000,000 in the 2000's. Pics show the rapid evolution of scale and complexity in the engines that power computing, communications, and electronic devices in general.

Microelectronic silicon computer “chips” have grown in capability from a single transistor in the 1950s to hundreds of millions of transistors per chip on today’s microprocessor and memory devices. From the first…

“Hello World” is the traditional first program you write when learning a new language, first appearing in K&R’s “The C Programming Language” book in 1978. Since then it has been implemented in almost every programming language on the planet. This collection has it in 366 coding languages (even LOLCode!) and 58 human ones! Is your favourite here?

Hello World in BIT. No comments possible. LINENUMBERZEROCODEPRINTZEROGOTOONELINENUMBERONECODEPRINTONEGOTOONEZEROLINENUMBE RONEZEROCODEPRINTZEROGOTOONEONELINENUMBERONEONECODEPRINTZEROGOTOONEZEROZEROLINE…

I was skeptical at first but this simple registry hack really works! It turns a previously non-genuine Windows XP installation into a genuine installation with all the ensuing benefits.

This is a discussion on Make Windows Genuine by a simple trick within the Pc Applications forums, part of the Applications/Softwares category; BEFORE Right click your desktop and select new text document. Open that document and paste the following…

Charles Babbage completed plans for an elaborate, all-mechanical calculator in 1849. His Difference Engine #2 was so complicated, with more than 8,000 separate parts, that it was never built during his lifetime. But now, Babbage's Difference Engine is on display in Silicon Valley…and it works!

Clearing up some misconceptions: the engine was not built in Babbage's lifetime, as it says in the text. This is the second one ever built. Myhrvold is a donor because he donated the cost of building a printer for the first engine (the one…

A new Facebook application developed by Researchers at the Technions Faculty, enables using a laptop computer, without being connected to the Internet, to detect Facebook friends who have also installed it. The Software enables one friend on Facebook to find another friend, or a friend of a friend, who happens to be in his or her vicinity.

The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is Israel’s leading science and technology university. Home to Israel’s winners of the Nobel Prize in science, it commands a worldwide reputation for its pioneering work in…

They must be expensive, but what's cooler than RFID post-its?

I'm sure the software would probably have to be open, but most applications that you think should be open all the time have a “startup” option. And most likely have some type of configuration so you can turn off any unwanted…

How a Bell Labs engineer discovered the inherit insecurity of all encryption due to “compromising emanations,” the electromagnetic and acoustic energy which radiates from every device.

Working on IBM DisplayWriters, Mag Card and Electronic Typewriters, and Office System/6, I had access to all service manuals. Most had part numbers for Tempest spares, and I had a chance to look over a Tempest-certified DisplayWriter service…

Apple is expected to announce today an across-the-board deal to sell new release films at its iTunes Store. The deal is said to allow Apple to offer a “broad slate of top-shelf films” day-and-date with home video releases — a long time sticking point with brick-and-mortar interests who want to keep their early edge on digital downloads.

$14.99 for the SD version of No Country off iTunes (it will be more, but iTunes does not display the purchase price of the HD version)$229.00 for an Apple TV (required to buy the HD version)$1099.00 for the cheapest Mac - with…

Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.
The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB “thumb drive” that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June.

The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB “thumb drive” that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith described its use…