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Skullcandy Reveals EcoBuds, Eco-Friendly Earbuds
To make an effort against the environmental impact of plastic waste and e-waste, SkullCandy has released their new EcoBuds which have been constructed from 65% recycled plastics, 57% less heavy metals, and a 50% lower carbon footprint than comparable products in the market all for a fraction of the cost.…
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TEAMGROUP Releases First Eco-Friendly DDR5 Memory Kits
TEAMGROUP has today revealed the industry’s first ECO-Friendly DDR5 module which features a recycled aluminium heatsink showing its devotion to creating environmentally friendly products. T-FORCE VULCAN ECO DDR5 The New T-FORCE VULCAN ECO DDR5 memory has been created using recycled aluminium for its heatsink. For every 10,000 recycled aluminium heatsinks…
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Epson Receives Renewed Criticism Over End-of-Life Bricking Firmware!
Printers are probably the most detested piece of computer-related technology around. They never seem happy and perpetually complain over having to do the simplest of tasks (a bit like a teenager I guess). Epson products, however, are perhaps more uniquely loathed because of a rather terse piece of coding within…
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5 Countries Already Want the New EU Car Fossil Fuel Ban to be Delayed!
While it seems likely that electric cars will, love them or loathe them, form a key part of car design in the coming years, I have to admit that while I agree with the concept in principle, I’m still yet to be convinced over the idea that a whole hog…
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US to Join EU With New Mandated USB-C Charging Standard?!
Earlier this month the European Union officially voted to bring in a new law that would officially require all portable tech products sold in the region to offer a mandated USB-C charging standard. – In other words, if it had a battery that could be charged, it had to be…
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Japan to Test 330-Tonne Ocean Turbine Offering Potentially Limitless Energy!
It seems pretty clear that if the human race is going to have any chance of surviving the next few hundred years, we’re simply going to have to find a way of producing energy in a more efficient and renewable manner. Our reliance on fossil fuels is, after all, one…
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European Union Mandates the USB-C Charging Standard!
Over the last few years, the European Union has made more than a few overtures toward looking to standardise (as much as possible) charging systems within portable tech devices. Primarily driven by a wish to reduce overall electronic waste, back in April things in this regard took a big step…
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Apple Made an Extra $6.5 Billion by Scrapping iPhone Accessories
Back in 2020, Apple announced that as part of a supposed environmental move, moving forward, they would no longer supply their smartphones, and similar tech products in general, with accessories such as chargers or earphones. In other words, when you opened the box, all you’d likely find is your iPhone,…
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MSI Motherboards to Ditch Paperwork Moving Forward!
Whenever you buy a motherboard or practically any tech product for that matter, it’s certainly not unusual to find a small mountain of paperwork inside the packaging. Product manual, warranty information booklet, stickers, promotional material, competition fliers, you get the idea. – With most of this generally being unimportant to…
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Toxic Spillage Confirmed at Samsung’s Austin Texas Plant
By and large, the production of pretty much all electrical components will always result in some level of toxic byproducts being created. As you might imagine, therefore, many major organisations spend an absolute fortune to ensure that not only are these contained but that they are disposed of in an…
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Microsoft Unveil Dubious ‘Environmental’ Ocean Plastic Mouse
While I’m not quite so concerned as to start gluing my hands to various parts of the M25, it is a sad reality that there is a hell of a lot of plastic crap floating around in the oceans across the world. So much, in fact, that nobody seems entirely…
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EU Proposes Fossil Fuel Car Ban by 2035
I think it would be fair to say that the writing is almost certainly on the wall for the future of the fossil fuel car. Yes, exactly when the last one will roll off a production line is still more than a little of a contentious subject, but with many…
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Chia Farming Can Kill a 512GB SSD in Just 40 days?
If you keep up to date with the latest Cryptocurrency news, then you might be aware that since the beginning of the year, we have seen a growing interest in Chia. A brand new coin that ‘farms’ using SSD storage rather than more conventional mainstream means such as graphics cards.…
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Honda Pledge to Go All-Electric With Cars by 2040
With many governments around the world setting out targets to make all new car sales fully electric within the next 10-15 years (in other words, banning petrol/diesel derivatives), motor manufacturers have already moved to attempt to get somewhat ahead of this curve. For example, back in February, Jaguar announced that…
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Razer Green Fund Launches With Toilet Roll Announcement!
When I first started working at eTeknix around four years ago, while I’d always had something of a penchant towards the weird and wonderful aspect of the news, even I’ll admit that there have been several headlines I’ve written since that time that seems to have come from a random…
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