This is a growing “tsunami” according to the UN, and it’s fed by all the phones, tablets and other electronic devices that are thrown away each day.
We’re Using Microbes to Clean Up Toxic Electronic Waste. Here’s How|Sebastien Farnaud|August 20, 2020|Singularity Hub
It has focused especially on keeping the lights on in community centers and in the homes of particularly vulnerable San Diegans, such as low-income families or people with electronic medical devices, she said.
Sacramento Report: Uber vs. California|Voice of San Diego|August 14, 2020|Voice of San Diego
When the Covid-19 pandemic swept through Asia, Europe, and the Americas, stock exchanges went fully electronic and bankers began to work from bedrooms.
How to nurture company culture when everyone’s working from home|Cassie Werber|August 9, 2020|Quartz
We don’t rely on another prosthetic manufacturer to make expensive sensors or electronics.
This Startup Is 3D Printing Custom Prosthetics for a Fraction of the Standard Cost|Vanessa Bates Ramirez|July 22, 2020|Singularity Hub
The findings come from a partnership formed in 2017 between the United Nations International Telecommunication Union, the International Solid Waste Association and other groups to track the accumulation of electronic debris.
Earth’s annual e-waste could grow to 75 million metric tons by 2030|Carolyn Gramling|July 2, 2020|Science News
After the captain made the call to abandon ship, 150 people were able to escape on lifeboats lowered by electronic arms.
‘We’re Going to Die’: Survivors Recount Greek Ferry Fire Horror|Barbie Latza Nadeau|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Privacy advocates such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation say everyone should use it.
The Attack on the Hidden Internet|Marc Rogers|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Its core information—materials, processes, electronic tricks, and RCS numbers—needs to be protected.
How the Pentagon Strangles Its Most Advanced Stealth Warplanes|Bill Sweetman|October 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Otherwise, I love dismantling old computers or electronic devices and try to make them work.
Vilified Bitcoin Tycoon After Losing $500 Million: My Life Is at Risk|Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky|September 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the quasi religious world of EDM (electronic dance music), Avicii is on par with God himself.
Don't Blame Avicii For His Druggy Tour|Abby Haglage|June 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Racking them up on the electronic tracker, he turned back to Gaillard, "Let her go!"
On the Trail of the Space Pirates|Carey Rockwell
I tried the electronic engines from the stern, setting them in the reverse.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930|Various
You see, I happen to know what it is, due to a little invention of my own—an electronic mind reader.
Smugglers' Reef|John Blaine
It controlled all electronic communications with the capitol system, and could easily tie in with subject systems.
Evil Out of Onzar|Mark Ganes
I got them to build me electronic computers that could direct that speed.
Generals Help Themselves|M. C. Pease
British Dictionary definitions for electronic
electronic
/ (ɪlɛkˈtrɒnɪk, ˌiːlɛk-) /
adjective
of, concerned with, using, or operated by devices in which electrons are conducted through a semiconductor, free space, or gas
of or concerned with electronics
of or concerned with electrons or an electronan electronic energy level in a molecule
involving or concerned with the representation, storage, or transmission of information by electronic systemselectronic mail; electronic shopping
Derived forms of electronic
electronically, adverb
usage for electronic
Electronic is used to refer to equipment, such as television sets, computers, etc, in which the current is controlled by transistors, valves, and similar components and also to the components themselves. Electrical is used in a more general sense, often to refer to the use of electricity as a whole as opposed to other forms of energy: electrical engineering; an electrical appliance. Electric, in many cases used interchangeably with electrical, is often restricted to the description of particular devices or to concepts relating to the flow of current: electric fire; electric charge
Relating to electrical devices that amplify and process electrical signals. Audio amplifiers, radios, and digital circuitry are electronic devices.♦ The scientific study of the behavior and design of electronic devices and circuits is called electronics. Compare electric.