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Turn Your Old Tech Into Art--Now With a 20% Discount

WIRED

Grid Studio is celebrating its 5th anniversary with a 20 percent off sitewide sale. Its art pieces include deconstructed iPhones, Game Boys, and even the original Samsung Galaxy S. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. One easy and uncommon way to celebrate these gizmos is to frame them up on your wall. I've linked to the Nintendo Game Boy Advance version, the 2001 handheld that was my first portable gaming console .


Ukraine war: How old tech is helping Ukraine avoid detection

BBC News

Oleksii says he's already lost five small Chinese-made drones and his Brigade "might lose three to four drones a day". He says the enemy have access to radio-electronic warfare stations and anti-drone guns which "can transmit interference and interrupt communications" to disable their drones.


What Your Old Devices Can Say About You

#artificialintelligence

With new models of phones and computers being released every year, wanting the latest and greatest is never a bad thing, but what about your old devices? The truth is that old devices can still hold all of the data you put on them or that they collected while they were alive. How you handle these devices after their useful lifetime matters not only for the environment, but also for your own security. Turning off a device for a long period of time may seem like it would be long enough for the data to disappear or be erased, but the truth is that data never disappears on its own. No matter how long you wait after a device is powered off, there is still data from when the device was used and what was stored on it.


Dating sites, political ads, Fire TV and more: Tech Q&A

FOX News

Kim Komando has all the answers about dating sites, political ads, Fire TV and more. Each week, I receive tons of questions from my listeners about tech concerns, new products and all things digital. Sometimes, choosing the most interesting questions to highlight is the best part of my job. This week, I received questions about whether any old tech is worth money to collectors, dating online, the Fire Stick, political ads and whether I shut down my app. Do you have a question you'd like to ask me?


IBM earnings: With old tech leading the way, cloud and AI need to catch up

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International Business Machines Corp. rode the success of old technology to big gains at the end of last year, but investors will be looking for success from newer businesses in order to believe in Big Blue's future. IBM IBM, -0.86% is scheduled to report earnings on Tuesday after the close of markets. Key points will be the potential impact of China tariffs and the company's gross margins. Most important might be the company's services revenue, which is far behind systems revenue growth despite comprising newer efforts. Don't miss: IBM broke a long losing streak thanks to some of its oldest technology Compared with the year-ago quarter, analysts expect technology services and cloud-platform revenue to rise 0.8% to $8.28 billion and cognitive-solutions revenue to rise 3.8% to $4.22 billion.