When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence — save ...

Floppy disks, long dismissed as obsolete relics of the past, have unexpectedly returned to the Linux development spotlight. For the first time in nearly three years, a new patch has been submitted to ...

Those of us who've been around and using technology for a while remember the era of floppy disks. You know, they look like "save" icons, but they were real pieces of plastic with magnetic media inside ...

Are you afraid to fly? You might be a little less comfortable taking to the skies after learning that Boeing 747 airplanes still—as in right now, in the year 2020—receive critical navigation software ...

Why it matters: Remember 3.5-inch floppy disks? They might be pretty much obsolete in the world of home computing, but they're still in use within certain industries, including aviation. The Boeing ...

For garden variety daily computing tasks, the floppy disk has thankfully been a thing of the past for quite some time. Slow, limited in storage and easily corrupted, few yearn for the format to return ...

Many government agencies, U.S. and international alike, have a reputation for sometimes using tools that are horribly out of date. But according to a report from a congressional watchdog agency, a ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

A new software configuration management and distribution tool, Loadstar Server Enterprise 3 (LSE 3), has the potential to eliminate the use of floppy disks and other physical media still being used by ...

Those of us who've been around and using technology for a while remember the era of floppy disks. You know, they look like "save" icons, but they were real pieces of plastic with magnetic media inside ...