Last summer, fourth-generation California farmer Dave Alford showed correspondent David Pogue around his 2004 John Deere tractor. "Oh, man, it's like a 747 cockpit over here!" Pogue laughed. "Not your ...

This year, the right-to-repair movement got a boost from—surprisingly—big tech, tariffs, and economic downturn. But the ...

FixBot is launching for free on both the App Store and Google Play but it won’t remain that way forever. At some point, free users will switch to a version with access limits, and will be prompted to ...

Ever had to replace the screen on your top-of-the-range smartphone? You’ll be no stranger to the sting of repair fees for the top handsets… on top of what you paid when you bought the gadget in the ...

Manufacturers are creating monopolies by preventing customers (or anyone else) from fixing their products. It's time to end that. Right-to-Repair focuses on removing what are known as repair ...

Late last year, in a totally unexpected move, Apple announced a program called Self Service Repair. There’s a Self Service Repair store. It enables you – yes, individuals – to buy official Apple parts ...

It’s often more expensive to get a gadget or piece of clothing fixed than it is to simply buy a new one. This phenomenon is partially due to companies designing products so that consumers are ...

The next IC Repair event will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 20 at East Side Recycling Center, 2401 Scott Blvd. SE in Iowa City. The event provides a free opportunity for anyone to bring in a ...

Rossmann Group’s Louis Rossmann has made a name for himself calling out tech companies’ seemingly anti-consumer practices while producing increasingly popular DIY-computer-repair instructional videos ...

As a country, America generates 624,000 metric tons of waste every single day, according to the LA Times. According to the FrontierGroup, each American produces nearly 5 pounds of trash daily. This is ...

Hannah Konschuh was out in the field harvesting wheat near the southern Alberta hamlet of Cluny when all the sudden, three codes started to flash on her combine monitor. "If those three codes had ...