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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Shortly after the iPhone 13 came out, some tech bloggers did an experiment. They bought two iPhone 13s and tested them to ensure that both worked perfectly. Then they started swapping parts between ...

Blake Swensen remembers the day he fell in love with tinkering. This was 50 years ago in Alaska, and the small plane his father was flying crashed. Swensen, 6 at the time, doesn’t know whether it was ...

The event aims to help people repair broken items instead of discarding them. Volunteers are needed to help with repairs, demonstrations, and general event support. The Repair Café is part of a global ...