The funding, awarded by the California Transportation Commission, will enable the San Francisco Municipal Transportation ...

Serveal notable industries and organizations still use floppy disks, including the U.S. FAA and San Francisco's Muni Metro light railway.

In brief: It's 2025, and the FAA has decided it's time to stop using floppy disks and Windows 95 for air traffic control. The head of the agency, Chris Rocheleau, wants to replace the archaic ...

Floppy disks still fly—literally. Here’s why some airplanes in 2025 still rely on 1990s tech for navigation updates.

A floppy disk might seem like a thing of the past, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still uses them to manage flight. Here's why.

If you need to, it's entirely possible to read and write to floppy disks with a modern PC or laptop. Here's everything you need to know.

The first ransomware attack took place in 1989 and was made possible by the floppy disk. It wasn’t until cryptocurrencies and ‘untraceable’ payments came along in the 2010s, however, that ...

The Alchemist has been known to use floppy disks when making beats. Now, he has a new song out called “Floppy Disks,” an ode of sorts to the format. “Dustin’ off floppy disks I’m keeping ...

The Muni Metro in San Francisco was recently approved for an update that would transition it from a control system using floppy disks to a more modern system.

When I think of a "floppy disk" I don't think of those myself, even if I did use them. Only disk I still have around: View attachment 93890 We had 5-1/4" floppies on the Apple IIs in grade school.

Although you probably haven't used (or even seen) a floppy disk in a while, some systems still rely on the outdated technology to this day.

Japan's government finally eliminates the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades after the technology's heyday.