Floppy disks may be obsolete, but they still hold irreplaceable pieces of our digital past. Archivists and retro tech enthusiasts are teaming up to recover their fragile data before it’s lost forever.

Something to look forward to: Microsoft released new Windows 11 Insider Preview builds to the Canary, Dev, and Beta channels this week, bringing multiple new features for developers and power users.

In late 1981, Sony surprised the photographic world with the first electronic still camera – the Mavica. The Mavica (which stood for Magnetic Video Camera) was not a digital camera, but an analog one, ...

I can't stand opening the Microsoft Store. It's slow to load, confusing to browse, and full of ads for things I don't care about. Luckily, thanks to a new feature, I don't have to open the Microsoft ...

Two pilots managing software in an airplane cockpit - Rathke/Getty Images The floppy disk: An archaic software storage medium that you might associate with playing "Oregon Trail" in the 80s, doing ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, Google officially launched a new feature for its command-line AI system, Gemini CLI, allowing outside companies to integrate directly into the AI product. Called Gemini CLI Extensions, ...

In this article, we cover three of them – PowerShell, Command Prompt, and Windows Terminal — explaining how they differ from each other and when they should be used. The operating system of your ...

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Ancient technologies like Windows XP, Commodore 64, and legacy COBOL programs are still being used for all kinds of critical functions, and here’s another example to add to the list. The US Federal ...