Serveal notable industries and organizations still use floppy disks, including the U.S. FAA and San Francisco's Muni Metro light railway.

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The Alchemist has been known to use floppy disks when making beats. Now, he has a new song out called “Floppy Disks,” an ode of sorts to the format. “Dustin’ off floppy disks I’m keeping ...

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Although you probably haven't used (or even seen) a floppy disk in a while, some systems still rely on the outdated technology to this day.

The German Navy is set to modernize its aging floppy disk technology aboard its Brandenburg class F123 frigates.

Japan's government finally eliminates the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades after the technology's heyday.

Japan has finally scrapped every regulation requiring the use of floppy disks for administrative purposes, catching up with the times 13 years after the country’s producers manufactured their ...

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Japan’s Digital Agency announced on Wednesday it will no longer use outdated floppy disks to operate its government computer systems.

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.