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Xbox Reveals New Recycled Remix Special Edition Controller
Microsoft has today announced their new Remix Special Edition Xbox controller made partly from reclaimed CDs, water jugs and other controller parts. A Recycled Controller Earth Day is just around the corner and Microsoft has taken the opportunity to reflect on the impact they have on the planet and have…
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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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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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Samsung Ditches Plastic Product Packaging Materials
Using Environmentally Sustainable Materials Instead Samsung Electronics has announced their new company sustainability policy, which takes steps this year to replace plastic packaging materials. Instead, the company will be focusing on using paper and other environmentally sustainable elements to curb plastic waste. In instances where plastic is necessary, the company…
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Philips’ 241B8QJEB Monitor is Made Out of Recycled Materials
Earth-friendly IPS Monitor from Philips? MMD, a licensed brand partner of Philips is announcing the new 241B8QJEB monitor. While it uses an IPS panel with a typical 1920 x 1080 resolution, what sets it apart from the rest is how it is constructed. This 24-inch eco-friendly monitor uses up to…
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Clean Energy Rules Backed by Leading Tech Companies
People like the idea of clean energy, the ability for us to generate more energy than we use all from renewable sources that don’t damage the environment. France requires that new buildings have solar panels or grass on the roofs, and an Indian airport has decided that solar power is…
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93% Of Apple Facilities Run On Renewable Energy
Apple is quite busy these days, with the recent announcement of their new iPhone SE and their legal battles with the FBI regarding encryption. Amongst all of this though they seem to have time to keep investing and enhancing their facilities, with the recent revelation that 93% of their facilities run on…
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Toyota Reveal New Concept For Hydrogen Powered Car
We live in a wonderful age, we’ve begun to create technology that merges both the digital and the real world together in augmented reality and even where people can drive a metal car powered by sunlight. The human imagination has created and continues to create an amazing array of technologies,…
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Apple Car Has New Staff – Straight From Tesla
Apple made a splash earlier in the year when it announced its interest in making a car, with an initial report showing that we could have an Apple car as soon as 2019 and more recently discussing the possibility of Apple and BMW working together on the next big Apple product.…
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Want To Live In A Modern Windmill?
Remember that old TV series “Around The Twist” with the family that lived in the lighthouse? How long did people spend talking with their friends and family about living in a lighthouse or windmill? Well, people in the Netherlands might be closer to the dream than everyone else thanks to a…
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