Laptops are one of the most egregious product categories with regards to e-waste. Most laptops are made of almost completely proprietary components that are exclusive to that device, and the chips are generally BGA, meaning it’s impractical to desolder and re-use them when a board fails. Framework was the first company to market a truly modular

Modern AI is far from science-fiction AGI, and yet it can still be an incredibly powerful tool. Like any tool, if misused, it can pose a threat to legitimate users, like how we recently covered photographers’ concerns that Google’s Gemini Flash 2.0 could be used to easily remove watermarks from copyrighted photographs. In another example,

Did you read our explainer on display technologies? If so, you’ll already be well aware of the concept of PPI, or “pixels per inch,” which is a more informative measure of “display resolution” than a static value like 1024×768. Typical PC monitors have PPI values in the 90-130 range, while smartphones go as high as 643 pixels per inch. This

Like just about every technology company, Apple continues to try and incorporate artificial intelligence into as many of its products as it can. However, it hasn’t gone well for the company so far. It has struggled to get Apple Intelligence and Siri up to the level of competing offerings. Things have gone so poorly that the company was recently