When it comes to embracing new tech, our Little Red Dot isn't just keeping up with the future — we're zooming ahead. Case in ...

Almost every year, Apple has made Spotlight a little better, and macOS Tahoe is its biggest and most impressive upgrade ever.

I can do math in my head (a skill honed, in particular, by the need to calculate file sizes limited by the capacity of a floppy disk), and I still have pretty good handwriting, although I increasingly ...

Before playlists, even before cassettes, there were 8-track tapes—and despite their quirks, they had undeniable charm in their chunky plastic form. Unlike cassettes, you couldn't flip them over; ...

One piece of '90s tech that has seemingly been forgotten and never returned, though, is the floppy disk. Although it still holds on as the standard icon for the "Save" function in computers and apps, ...

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers.

The alternative is unclear, though it might involve an emulator that would replace the disk drives. The F123s were first put into service in the 1990s. Even then, 8-inch floppies were passé.

The challenge is to design a modern system that is fully compatible with 1990s technology, and must fully emulate the functionality of existing 8-inch floppy disks and disk drives.

The German Navy is seeking a new storage system to replace its old 8-inch floppy disks on its Brandenburg class F123 frigates. These frigates, vital for anti-submarine warfare, still use floppy ...

Germany is no longer defended in the Hindu Kush, but on drive A: Why the German Navy urgently needs a disk replacement.