device reuse

Google and Back Market say they’ve teamed up to make it trivial — and cheap — to turn many aging Windows laptops and a handful of older Intel Macs into ChromeOS machines by shipping ready-made USB sticks that contain the ChromeOS Flex installer. Background / Overview The announcement, unveiled...

A new corporate campaign is asking companies to pause and rethink before consigning perfectly usable Windows 10 laptops and other surplus IT to recycling bins, landfill queues or anonymous e‑waste chains — and it arrives at a critical moment as millions of Windows 10 machines remain in service...

SocialBox.Biz’s new “Call Before You Scrap It” appeal is an emphatic push for companies—especially those in Westminster and central London—to stop defaulting to recycling and instead assess surplus Windows 10 machines and other corporate IT for reuse, secure refurbishment and redistribution to...

An engineer has turned a discarded disposable vape into a functioning web server — and the stunt is more than a neat hack: it’s a concise demonstration of how tiny, low-cost microcontrollers embedded in throwaway consumer goods can be repurposed to run real network stacks and serve pages, while...