A gamer recently discovered something startling when his external hard drive failed. What appeared to be a routine tech issue ...

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

Rather than use an optical process for storage, this drive used magnetic tape to store its data. To this day, HDDs as well as the seemingly dead floppy disk use magnets to store data.

Things were different just a few years ago, and it's taken years of evolution to get gaming monitors, wireless keyboards, and other hardware we now take for granted.I looked back at my old desktop PC ...

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.

A portrait of Indianapolis humor icon David Letterman made of floppy disks will be displayed in downtown InterContinental hotel, opening this winter.

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.

Disk Jockey is an app that allows you to create disk image files for a variety of retro computers and emulators. Here's how to use it.

Floppy disks are still around outside Japan, too. The embroidery and avionics industries use them, and until recently the United States’ nuclear arsenal did, too.

Farewell to Floppy disk: Japan pulls the plug on a tech relic unknown to Gen-Z Floppy disks were used in the Japanese government system, and now it is officially getting off the shelf. Japan made ...

Japan is deleting floppy disks from government processes — but there is still a market for them elsewhere.

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.