this week, click travels to kenya, where piles of electronic waste are making locals choose between lives and livelihoods. translation: it is dangerous work, but we have to do it. if we do not, we will go hungry. we re also in the rural communities where ai is improving prenatal care. the information that i ll get here will help me . to save the life of a mother. we look at the tech aiming to put museums in the metaverse. and paul s dying to meet the microbes that could clean up the fashion industry. bugs are quite simple creatures. kind of like me and you. if you ever wondered where your old laptops, phones and tvs go to die, well, every year our planet generates over 50 million tonnes of electronic waste. the problem is things just don t last as long these days. take phones, for example. the entire industry seems geared around us replacing our handset every couple of years or so. but only about a quarter of that e waste is properly recycled. and that s really bad because
this week, click travels to kenya, where piles of electronic waste are making locals choose between lives and livelihoods. translation: it is dangerous work, but we have to do it. if we do not, we will go hungry. we re also in the rural communities where ai is improving prenatal care. the information that i ll get here will help me . to save the life of a mother. we look at the tech aiming to put museums in the metaverse. and paul s dying to meet the microbes that could clean up the fashion industry. bugs are quite simple creatures. kind of like me and you. if you ever wondered where your old laptops, phones and tvs go to die, well, every year our planet generates over 50 million tonnes of electronic waste. the problem is things just don t last as long these days. take phones, for example. the entire industry seems geared around us replacing our handset every couple of years or so. but only about a quarter of that e waste is properly recycled. and that s really bad because
you get across will: just some dude engineering talk this morning. just guys being guys. pete: there s somebody sitting in that booth on that bridge right there, hopefully watching fox & friends [laughter] ready to lift it when a boat needs to go by. will: 8:00 hour we re going to talk about dump trucks. [laughter] pete: absolutely. people doing things. we see you. glad you re here for the 7 a.m. eastern time hour of fox & friends weekend on this sun. will cain, carley shimkus in for rachel will: glad to have you. carley: thank you. giving rachel a much-needed week off. pete: she deserves it. carley: enough bridge talk. we have some more news starting with this, house committee chair james comer says we will hear new details on hunter biden this week that could that he warns could be disturbing. will: comer also says he will continue to press the treasure i department for treasury department for records that could lead to more corruption. reporter: you never k
multiple times even when i asked forjust a written comment to the victims whose lives were turned upside down. that did not exactly surprised me because going silent when faced with bad news is quite a typical strategy forjapanese typical strategy for japanese companies. they typical strategy forjapanese companies. they did send me a statement last week saying. basically the company has remained tightlipped about it. the other issue to remember, while it may be difficult to believe, hardly anyone injapan has heard of the horizon scandal until very recently. when we spoke to fujitsu s japan former president in 2022 his reaction was horizon? what horizon? because it was developed by a british company international computers limited which fujitsu bought decades ago. icl had strong ties to the british government so it did give fujitsu an outsize presence in the uk and japanese companies often let international subsidiaries do their own thing especially the board lacks internation