So I've always thought that having magnets near hard-drives was bad for the hard-drives, yet these days all I see are magnet-tipped screw drivers. Even those "iFixit" branded ones, which are obviously ...

At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 disassembling old hard disk drives by hand in order to extract a 2-inch-long component known ...

Warnings about magnets and gadgets have been passed down like tech folklore, often without much explanation. The reality is ...

At some point, you've probably heard the stern warning: Never put magnets near your electronics! It's advice so ingrained in tech culture that it feels like a law of physics. But is it true? Was it ...

Warnings about magnets ruining electronics are mostly outdated. Learn why modern devices are largely safe, what rare exceptions exist, and how strong magnets could still cause real damage.

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County,Oklahoma, ...