The contract entails that Hitachi Rail will transition the ATCS from its current 5.25-inch floppy disk system to one that uses Wi-Fi and cell signals to track exact train locations.

Back in the early years of the personal computer, “FloppyData” may not have been recognizable by itself. But looking back on ...

Kono’s war on floppy disks brings to mind another episode in 2018 when, a month after being appointed as Japan’s cyber-security minister, Yoshitaka Sakurada openly admitted that he’d never ...

The floppy disk may never truly die out. “There are people in the world who are still busy finding and fixing up and maintaining phonograph players from 1910, so it’s really hard for me to ...

Time is almost up for magnetic storage from the 80s and 90s. Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the data stored on things like tape, flop… ...

Even some of the banks that have gone digital, she said, still expect all transactions to be confirmed by fax. (If you're not familiar with floppy disks, fax machines are… well, they're even older.) ...

Image: Getty Images / Saturno Dona' / EyeEm. Japan's digital minister has vowed to remove laws requiring that data sent to the government is shipped on floppy disks and other physical media.

With over $12 billion on the table to fix increasingly faulty Air Traffic Control (ATC) systems, all eyes are on the FAA.

Japan's newly appointed Minister of Digital Affairs, Taro Kono, has declared war on the floppy disk and other forms of obsolete media, which the government still requires as a submission medium ...

The digital minister said there are still around 1,900 government applications and forms that ... floppy disks—along with other dated tech like CDs and MiniDiscs —are still required for around ...