Recycling

Some people will go to extraordinary lengths to harvest metal. For his 2017 book on the subject, Metal Scrappers and Thieves: Scavenging for Survival and Profit, Stickle interviewed one man who used to hunt down abandoned buildings on…

Around us at Zephyros, kids and silverware clamor and motorbikes cough, but Marina’s voice is barely above a whisper. “When the hippopotamuses quarrel, then the frogs get stepped on,” she says of geopolitical conflicts, including the war in…

The company recently laid off thousands of human employees—it is also shutting down a unit working on robots that learned to open doors and clean tables.

Although kitchens come in a variety of different sizes, the amount of storage space in the room doesn’t always reflect the square footage. Read more...