Troubled robot vacuum-cleaner maker iRobot, abandoned by Amazon after regulators effectively doomed the web giant’s takeover offer, has warned investors it may not survive the next 12 months.

  • Prehensile_cloaca @lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    The free market is supposed to make this happen. The problem is that we have also built a system that just generates mountains of junk and e-waste. Because our government is feckless and refuses to actually regulate, ya know, anything with a shareholder attached.

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      15 hours ago

      Also because section 1201 of the DMCA means that otherwise useful things become e-waste.