A 17-year-old student has developed TRASHbot, an AI-powered robot designed to tackle litter in public spaces. This autonomous ...

Tony Goacher] has worked with a lot of cheap brushless DC motor controllers built in China. They can be very cost-effective, ...

At Aftermath, Chris Person (who else?) explains how to hack together a bootleg Steam Machine using a cheap castoff cryptomining GPU. It’s a high-effort, low-cost build made possible by 3D printing, ...

Out in the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and California, is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirl of plastic trash more than twice the size of Texas. As pieces of plastic tumble against each other, ...

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Rescue workers searched on Friday for dozens of people buried under a mountain of garbage that collapsed at a landfill in the central Philippines, killing at least one. Nearly 50 people were buried ...

Many residents say that illegal dumping has inundated Oakland, Calif., a city with more garbage than almost anywhere else. Many residents say that illegal dumping has inundated Oakland, Calif., a city ...

On December 22, 2020, in Ulyanovsk, Russia, a security video captured garbage sorters rescuing a cat discarded in a bag at a waste sorting facility. In the video, workers notice a moving bag on the ...

The humble garbage run is getting a high-tech overhaul. From robot trash haulers that arrive on demand to electric trucks designed to silence the morning clatter of diesel engines, waste collection is ...

Last year, Brandi Howse’s annual mammogram returned a grim diagnosis: Stage 3 breast cancer. To save her life, she had her breasts removed, then her ovaries. She’s free of the disease now and ...

The alt-rock veterans’ eighth album lacks the bite of their 2021 LP; despite typically expert production, the songwriting is noncommittal—though Shirley Manson remains a fierce, commanding presence.