This story has been updated with statements from Microsoft and additional information about how refurbishers obtain restore disks. A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming. Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a ...

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A Southern California man who built a sizable business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to federal prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court in Miami rejected his claim that the ...

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Ensure any sensitive data (Regulated Private or FERPA controlled student data) on the machines is completely removed from disk drives before the equipment leaves your control. Once the items are ...

LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) - Demand for ruthenium is expected to fall this year because of high prices and greater use of recycled material in the electronics industry, Johnson Matthey said in a report ...

MONTANA CITY — The crunch of a shredding hard drive filled a warehouse as an old computer tower completed another step on its journey from gathering dust on a garage shelf to becoming components for a ...