Goodwill accepts a wide range of used electronics at its donation centers and routes them through internal programs designed to keep them out of landfills rather than being sold or scrapped haphazardly. The nonprofit's process reflects the absence of any federal e-waste recycling framework in the United States, filling a gap left by national policy. The UN reports global e-waste generation reached 32 billion kilograms in 2022, an 82 percent rise since 2010.
Apple TV+ currently has new weekly episodes running across six shows at once: Ted Lasso, Slow Horses, Dark Matter, Brothers, Last Seen, Women in Blue and Knife Edge. A longtime subscriber notes this marks a shift from the platform's earlier pace of one or two concurrent series.
A developer built a single-agent system on OpenComputer that uses Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 to turn a webpage's content into an explainer video without any traditional video-generation model. The system fetches page data, runs the rendered page in a disposable microVM with a virtualized clock for deterministic frame capture, and encodes frames into an MP4 via ffmpeg, storing the result as a public Vercel Blob URL.
Walmart is selling a CyberPowerPC prebuilt gaming desktop for $1,549, down from $2,139. The system includes an Intel Core i7-14700KF processor, 32GB of 6000MHz DDR5 memory, an Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition GPU with 12GB VRAM, a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, and CyberPowerPC's MA-O1 case with RGB controls. It ships with a keyboard, mouse, and a one-year parts and labor warranty.
A new YouTube channel streaming continuous footage of President Trump has launched, but early data show it is drawing few viewers. The channel offers round-the-clock clips of Trump rather than curated or produced content.
Sweden's national police authority, Polisen, has launched a campaign called 'Dare to be rude' featuring four Swedish celebrities, aimed at encouraging people—especially the elderly—to be blunt or hang up when they suspect a scam call. Polisen reports fraud losses in Sweden reached 5.7 billion SEK (about $575.3 million), with phone-based scams impersonating banks, agencies or police among the most common tactics used against people over 60.
OpenAI has expanded its influencer marketing, more than doubling sponsored Instagram posts for ChatGPT from 61 in June to 141 in August, according to HypeAuditor data cited by Business Insider. The company is reportedly pitching parenting, fitness and tech creators, urging them to frame ChatGPT as useful for everyday life and business rather than address AI safety worries directly.
A commentary piece traces corporate identity design back a century, noting that early visual identities were built by craftspeople with deep expertise in applied arts. It argues that today, having a polished visual identity is no longer enough to set a brand apart from competitors.
Kyle Krause, chief executive of the Iowa-based holding company Krause Group, has been named one of Fast Company's Best Dressed in Business for 2026. Krause regularly travels to Europe to visit portfolio businesses including Parma Calcio 1913, winery Vietti and the resort Casa di Langa, adapting his wardrobe to each stop. He describes his approach to dressing as prioritizing functionality over pure luxury.
A new workplace advice piece examines how some professionals appear competent or engaged in meetings without substantively contributing, and offers cues for spotting this behavior. It cites an estimate that the average American professional spends more than 14 years of their working career in meetings, underscoring how central meetings are to office life.
A new analysis argues that how companies decide where employees work matters as much as the final policy itself. It notes that more than six years after COVID-19 began, over one in five U.S. workers able to work remotely still do so full-time or part-time.
Samsung has acknowledged a bug in its Home Up Good Lock module where backups fail and get deleted as "broken" if users have set custom folder label colors. A Samsung Community moderator confirmed the issue and said engineers are working on a fix that requires changes to the underlying code, to be released in a future update. In the meantime, users can revert folder label colors to default settings to create working backups.
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