Last summer, fourth-generation California farmer Dave Alford showed correspondent David Pogue around his 2004 John Deere tractor. "Oh, man, it's like a 747 cockpit over here!" Pogue laughed. "Not your ...

Ever had to replace the screen on your top-of-the-range smartphone? You’ll be no stranger to the sting of repair fees for the top handsets… on top of what you paid when you bought the gadget in the ...

Nearly every month at community centres around Metro Vancouver, a group of handy local volunteers – retired tradespeople, passionate amateur tinkerers and students from UBC’s faculty of electrical ...

Manufacturers are creating monopolies by preventing customers (or anyone else) from fixing their products. It's time to end that. Right-to-Repair focuses on removing what are known as repair ...

We’ve all been there: You can’t (or won’t) get help when something breaks, but the YouTube clip doesn’t cover your specific issue. It’s what repair gurus at ...

Hannah Konschuh was out in the field harvesting wheat near the southern Alberta hamlet of Cluny when all the sudden, three codes started to flash on her combine monitor. "If those three codes had ...

It’s often more expensive to get a gadget or piece of clothing fixed than it is to simply buy a new one. This phenomenon is partially due to companies designing products so that consumers are ...

Volunteers fix all sorts of items at events like this one hosted by the Cville TimeBank Repair Cafe in Charlotteville, Va. in fall 2018. Replacing your phone screen, turning the rotors on your car and ...