Companies tend to be rather picky about who gets to poke around inside their products. Manufacturers sometimes even take steps that prevent consumers from repairing their device when it breaks, or ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In today’s culture, when something breaks, we don’t usually fix it. Instead, we replace it, and whatever we had before, simply ends up at the dump. Repair Café is trying to change ...

A growing movement of events — called Repair Fairs — want to help people learn to fix their broken things and, in turn, keep them out of landfills. NPR visits an event in northern New York. We have a ...

If your computer is affected by the bug that makes drive C inaccessible and breaks other parts of Windows 11, Microsoft now has an official guide on how to fix it. Last week, Microsoft acknowledged a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — When something breaks, most of us reach for our wallets, ready to order a replacement on Amazon. But volunteers at Repair PDX reach for their toolboxes instead. And for the community ...