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Forward-looking: Western Digital has launched a large-scale hard disk drive recycling initiative in partnership with Microsoft, Critical Materials Recycling, and PedalPoint Recycling. The program, ...

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what ...

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 ...

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Dunbar Armored, Inc., an independent armored transportation companies and Back Thru The Future Computer Recycling, Inc., a New Jersey-based specialist in secure data destruction, have announced an ...

You might not think about it often, but a lot of raw materials like aluminum and plastic go into making the laptop or the desktop that is currently sitting on your desk. For those materials to ...

I recently got into a conversation with David Szabados of Seagate Technology regarding their whole drive encryption and its contribution to corporate security. He told me about an interesting new ...

"BECU is committed to helping our community members prevent identity theft by offering practical solutions to protecting their personal information," said Ken Kinloch, Information Protection Officer ...

Electronic waste that weighed the equivalent of five family cars has been salvaged and shipped from Bermuda to be recycled in the US. And that was only the most recent shipment made by Guardian, a ...