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While these days most people might use the term thrift store, the original name, from the UK, is a charity shop. While this really did fit its intended purpose at the time, to raise money for the blind, it’s not, perhaps, the best name one can envision. While we all love low, low prices, shopping at a “charity store” might feel wrong.Interestingly, most of the first thrift stores were specifically run by charities at the time, as a means to raise money. While this is certainly a good cause, one might not be able to find…

Representational Image. (File photo)To make the task easy and seamless, we have created a list of top pointers, mentioning what needs to be kept in mind before investing a massive amount for used cars.Purchasing a second-hand car is not at all walking in the breeze as it requires a lot of effort. From taking a spin in the city to knocking on multiple doors, the buyers have to deal with unexpected scenarios, which often land them in doubtful situations. To make the task easy and seamless, we have created a list of top…

Feel free to mispronounce Ikea (it should be ee-kay-uh, from the Swedish) and Lidl (lee-dal, from the German). But there’s no arguing when it comes to CeX, the bright red secondhand technology shop you get in more or less every UK town centre, usually next to McDonald’s, Primark and/or Poundland. It may be short for Complete Entertainment eXchange, but it shouldn’t be pronounced C-E-X, as you might say to your mum when explaining where you got her cheap secondhand mobile phone from. Officially, CeX is pronounced as sex.…

The Bengaluru based techie turned his modified Maruti Alto K10 into a self driving car using a basic, budget smartphone and Flowpilot, an open-source driver assistance system A video of a Maruti Alto K10, driving by itself…

Amazon is making some seriously big money by selling second hand products. In the UK this year, it made over $1 billion as more and more people turn to pre-owned and preloved products Amazon’s UK Country Manager, John…

Cooking with gas-fired stoves can cause unsafe levels of toxins to accumulate inside homes, exposing people to roughly the same cancer risk as breathing secondhand cigarette smoke, according to a new study.Researchers from Stanford University and nonprofit PSE Healthy Energy tested gas and propane stoves in 87 homes across California and Colorado and found that every appliance produced a detectable amount of cancer-causing benzene — a chemical with no safe level of exposure.It only took 45 minutes for a single burner on…

Gas stoves release worrying amounts of benzene, a chemical linked to leukemia and other blood cell cancers, according to a new study from Stanford researchers. Benzene that gas-burning stoves release inside homes can reach concentrations even higher than what’s typical in secondhand smoke, according to the paper published last week in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.The study adds ammunition to efforts to phase gas connections out of homes and buildings. There’s a growing body of evidence on the risks…

The Department of Telecom (DoT) has introduced the Sanchar Saathi portal, enabling individuals to block and track their lost or stolen mobile phones throughout India. Union Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that the portal would facilitate blocking, tracking, and verification of used devices before purchase.What mobile users can do on the Sanchar Saathi websiteThe first component of the Sanchar Saathi portal is the Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR). If a mobile phone is lost, individuals can visit the…

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Security researchers have publicly revealed findings in a study that uncovered that more than half of the enterprise routers sold secondhand to online resellers, such as eBay, had not been factory reset and wiped of their data. This means the devices still contained sensitive company information from their previous owners when they were resold. Researchers from the security firm ESET plan to showcase their study at the RSA security conference in San Francisco next week, but told Wired that they were able to uncover…