On July 4, a time capsule was buried in Philadelphia to mark the U.S.’s 250th anniversary. Among the items inside was a small metal vial that holds synthetic DNA encoded with major documents from the ...

If you’re an elder-millennial / Xennial like me, you probably remember the iconic “Don’t Copy That Floppy”Opens a new window ...

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Nancy J. Allen never gave up on writing — even after losing a novel to a computer crash. Now at 80, her first book is out.

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A graphic of a floppy disk hamburger was created on an early Amiga computer, photographed, and then deleted (more specifically, it couldn’t be saved). Stuart Brown set out to recreate this image as ...