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SINGAPORE – Residents can drop off old mobile phones, tablets and laptops at Shopee collection points and lockers in residential areas under a six-month pilot aimed at making e-waste recycling more convenient. This new initiative by Alba E-waste Smart Recycling – which handles Singapore’s e-waste recycling scheme – will also ensure that personal data on…
Dating apps spent the better part of the last decade convincing us that romance could be outsourced to an algorithm. Swipe right, answer three prompts, upload a photograph in which you look approximately 17% more interesting than you do in real life, and wait for technology to find you a person. Now they want us…
September brought better App Store news for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). UBS says revenue grew 5% year over year, compared with no growth in August. However, analyst David Vogt, who rates Apple Neutral and has a $296 price target, says it is too early to draw broader conclusions. That leaves investors to decide whether one month…
Russia has long been a country where gasoline was relatively inexpensive and electric vehicles struggled to gain widespread acceptance. With enormous oil reserves and an established fuel distribution network, switching to battery power was rarely an urgent priority for motorists. That situation has changed dramatically in 2026 as fuel shortages disrupt everyday driving across parts…
Image Credit: Associated Press Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). The richest man in the world says he is not building a phone… again, and again, and again… Last October, Elon Musk sat down with Joe Rogan. “I am not working on a phone,” he said. On January 30, someone…
A U.S. senator is demanding answers from Trump Mobile, the cell phone company founded by President Donald Trump’s sons Eric and Don Jr., after Straight Arrow revealed this week that hackers had stolen customer data. In a letter on Thursday, Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., called on Trump Mobile CEO Patrick O’Brien to answer numerous questions…
One of my favorite things about owning a Google TV is that you can change almost anything you dislike about it. You just need the right app to do it. I’d already swapped out the default launcher a while back, and this time I had to do something about those streaming shortcuts on my remote…
Samsung has posted a cryptic video on social media showing various people dancing inside a rectangle of light matching the proportions of a Galaxy Z Fold 8. One of those people is J-Hope, a member of the hugely popular Korean band, BTS. He was already part of Samsung’s marketing campaign for the device, and even…
That will allow Starlink’s signal to penetrate walls and reach customers inside buildings. SpaceX SpaceX has revealed that it plans to become a major mobile carrier and not just a satellite internet broadband service provider with Starlink. To achieve that goal, it has agreed to acquire 100 percent of Grain Management’s nationwide 800…
US suspends several technology firms from Green card program for India’s biggest IT companies: What it means for H-1B visa holders The US government suspended several technology firms from the Green card program. The list of companies impacted include Cognizant, Capgemini, Microsoft and Adobe along with India IT giants Infosys, TCS, Wipro and HCL. Does…