Paul F. Roberts

The French startup CTRL ENERGY has designed ZERO, a portable, modular power bank that lets owners easily repair and keep their devices running instead of tossing them. Here’s how.

With around $50 million in damages spread across 200,000 plaintiffs, farmers should take a hard look at the math before deciding how to respond to John Deere’s settlement proposal.

Farmers and repair advocates raise questions about the data John Deere is using to determine what they owe farmers as part of the class action settlement.

Just 18% of more than 2,300 EU smartphone records provided consumers with the information needed to make repairs, a study found. Also: John Deere has a farmer-repair tool. But does it work?

Texas’ right to repair electronics law takes effect Tuesday - as right to repair picks up steam. Also: Meta sentenced its Quest 1 virtual reality headset to death. Hackers just saved it.

U.S. drivers are keeping their cars longer than ever, but the rise of software-defined vehicles means that car makers may decide when your car dies. That’s not good.

Released in 2017, the iPhone X has been declared "obsolete" by Apple, which will no longer offer authorized repairs. Also: 'It's the ownership, stupid!' Young conservative trumpets right to repair.

As the EU's landmark right to repair law takes effect, repair advocates say big gaps remain. Also: Logitech makes small device repairs easy. And: Ghana turns the West's denim trash into art.

In the latest fight to repair news round-up: PIRG's e-waste graveyard is filling up. Also: Harley owners demand a right to repair. And: Vizio's new smart TV can go dumb (that's a good thing)!

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Join us as we welcome ag- repair advocate Willie Cade for a live chat Sunday (July 12) at 1:00 PM ET about the FTC's deal with John Deere to give farmers access to repair tools and information.

The Federal Trade Commission, joined by the attorneys general of 5 states, announced a settlement with Deere & Company that dramatically expands farmers right to repair their agricultural equipment.

In a legal filing, farmer Jared Wilson argues a proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit won't dismantle John Deere’s repair monopoly and stiffs farmers.

The memo urges the EPA to streamline repairs of vehicle emissions systems. Also: Meta puts AI glasses feature behind paywall. And: House committee guts a proposed auto REPAIR Act.

We spoke with Alexis Chapellier the creator of Wrench Board, an AI-powered diagnostic workbench for board-level electronics repair, a winner at Anthropic’s Built with Opus 4.7 hackathon.

The company said the decision to shut down a widely used API was part of a “transition to the next generation of vehicle interfaces.” Ownership advocates say its part of a plan to rob you blind.

An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) granting the U.S. Military a right to repair made headlines, but is severely lacking according to a

Watch now (9 mins) | In this interview, Anthony Rosborough, President of the Canadian Repair Coalition, talks about the battle to build a repair-friendly Canada.

At CANRepair last week, repair advocates celebrated recent victories, and called for a broader right to repair as a way to promote Canada’s economic independence.

A Senate hearing revealed a BlackHawk helicopter repair that costs 5,000 times more without a military right to repair. Also: Kindle owners push back as Amazon looks to brick older devices.