Company settled charges that it didn't notify regulator after more than 100 complaints about the battery overheating. This is the latest such case following penalties against Peloton, Whirlpool and ...

Thanks to dedicated online forums, many people have been able to use crowdsourced, publicly available software to resuscitate ...

This is the second part of our series on open-source communities and forums that are crowd-sourcing consumer tech support for ...

5,707 pre-industrial plastic pellets collected in recent cleanup in South Carolina.

Single-use plastic can cause major environmental damage, but paper substitutes also have downsides. What if there was a third way?

New analysis by repair advocates underscores need for enforcement, further state progress to ensure people can fix their stuff ...

Allstate’s Arity sells access to millions of drivers’ data to third parties for purposes beyond saving drivers money on their ...

Medical billing errors and improper claim denials have been redefining the financial future of millions of families. These ...

Skyrocketing electricity demand from data centers is slowing our nation's transition to clean energy, and putting consumers ...

An executive order in the final days of the Biden administration could fast-track the construction of brand-new data centers for AI computing -- and the polluting power plants that fuel them.

These companies simply shouldn't be allowed to make billions of dollars every year buying and selling our personal information.

The teabags that were found to release the most microplastics were– perhaps unsurprisingly– the teabags that were made ...