Exploring the possibilities of ultracompressed and low-bitrate audio, the floppy disc music scene is alive. "Linked to strong punk movements with a DIY aesthetic," it is an anti-capitalist niche ...

Famously, the save icon on most computer user interfaces references a fairly obsolete piece of technology: the venerable floppy disk. It’s likely that most people below the age of about 30 have never ...

In 1985, the technology landscape was unrecognisable compared to today. Back then, the most important tool for PC users was a 5.25-inch floppy disk that stored just 360KB of data. When the 3.5-inch ...

Thimaya Subaiya is executive vice president of operations at Cisco, and he oversees security and trust, supply chain, IT, and growth operations at the networking giant. Subaiya is part of the inner ...

A new program at the University of Cambridge library in the UK is asking people to bring in their floppy disks so that any digital artifacts on them can be extracted. Among rediscovered files are ...

Do you have any old floppy disks still lying around in some neglected corner of your house? Do you even know what a floppy disk is? For the uninitiated, floppy disks became commercially available in ...