What do floppy disks and the cancellation or delay of over a hundred flights at the Newark airport have in common? Well, in an age where we are talking about quantum computing and light-based data ...

Legacy aircraft like the Boeing 747-400 still rely on floppy disks to update critical navigation data, due to costly and complex certification requirements for ...

A leading lawmaker from the nation’s most interconnected air travel state warned that outdated technology – like "floppy disks" – and ongoing air traffic control (ATC) crises at key hubs are ...

To this day, HDDs as well as the seemingly dead floppy disk use magnets to store data. Solid state drives (SSD), on the other hand, use electricity for storage and have become a popular ...

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984 ...

We're talking about technology that really looks like it belongs on the set for "Apollo 13" or a computer museum, literally floppy disks, which people of a certain generation wouldn't even know ...

While other countries have embraced digital displays and infrared-based systems, American air traffic controllers are trained to use paper strips, floppy disks and World War II-era radar technology.

“I have toured the FAA air traffic facilities before, and I was horrified to learn that they are still relying on outdated technology like floppy disks,” said U.S. Rep Jeff Van Drew, R-2nd Dist.