The TV remote is replaced by labeled disks, and one simple action Toddlers can select shows without reading icons, tapping screens, or scrolling tiles Floppy disks limit options by design and reduce ...

International Business Machines unveiled its plan to build “the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer” in June, and on Wednesday, the company shared more on how it plans to reach ...

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 ...

Deep in the bowels of a lab older than the internet itself, engineers have been toiling away at an enormous scientific and engineering challenge: How to create the hardware poised to set off the next ...

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...

Spinnaker Software developed this set of programs for use with IBM-compatible computers. The eight programs were a word processor, a database, a spreadsheet, a desktop organizer, grapics, a ...

A floppy disk did what thumb drives do, back when we talked about megabytes instead of terabytes. It might seem crazy that the 400 remaining Boeing 747s used by airlines and shipping companies around ...

IBM and Riken, a national research laboratory in Japan, have unveiled the first quantum computer to be co-located with Riken's supercomputer Fugaku. Based in Kobe, Japan, the IBM Quantum System Two is ...

When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence — save ...

Delivered by 2029, IBM Quantum Starling will be built in a new IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York and is expected to perform 20,000 times more operations than today’s quantum computers.

TL;DR: The FAA still relies on outdated 1990s technology like Windows 95 and floppy disks for air traffic control, causing risks and delays. A major modernization project, costing tens of billions and ...

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