Your deleted files can still be recovered. Here are the safe ways to dispose of your old hard drives and ensure your personal ...

At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 disassembling old hard disk drives by hand in order to extract a 2-inch-long component known ...

Traditional hard drives typically contain useful components. But dismantling them manually would be too labor-intensive. As things stand, old hard drives tend to go through a shredder and it's often ...

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The scrap recycling business is not your run-of-the-mill operation (pun intended). In fact, the secondary commodities industry employs a business model that is rarely seen in corporate America. While ...