The Telegraph24d
San Francisco’s Muni Metro light rail finally says goodbye to floppy disks
Tom Persky Sourced by The Telegraph Also keeping floppy disks alive is an underground music scene. Music database and marketplace discogs.com lists over 2,000 floppy releases, most of which are ...
Digital Trends23d
One of the last floppy disk industries is finally modernizing
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. The deal is ...
Wired25d
San Francisco Will Pay $212 Million for Its Train System to Ditch Floppy Disks
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni Metro light rail off floppy disks. The Muni Metro’s Automatic Train Control ...
MarketWatch18h
E-mini Russell 2000 Index Continuous Contract
2-Year U.S. Treasury Note Continuous Contract $102.750 0.074 0.07% 5-Year U.S. Treasury Note Continuous Contract $106.875 0.211 0.20% 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note Continuous Contract $109.953 0.328 ...
Ars Technica27d
San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni Metro light rail off floppy disks. The Muni Metro’s Automatic Train Control ...
TechSpot25d
Part of a $700 million systems overhaul
In brief: The San Francisco Muni Metro's Automatic Train Control System (ATCS), one of the few remaining major systems still using floppy disks, is dropping the archaic technology as part of a ...
The New York Times28d
Why ‘floppy ankles’ make Harry Kane the world’s best striker, but also get him injured
The Athletic spoke to football biomechanist Archit Navandar to understand what he calls Kane’s “floppy ankles”, and why they make him so good. First, a lesson in physiological and biomechanics.
TechSpot17d
Meet KolibriOS, the lightweight OS that can even boot from a 1.44MB floppy
The boot time is remarkably speedy, too. In a recent video, YouTuber Michael MJD demonstrated KolibriOS booting within a few minutes off a 3.5" floppy disk and in around five seconds off a CD-ROM ...
CNN21d
Students discover and publish unexpected proof for 2,000-year-old mathematical theory
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Louisiana students ...
scmp.com3d
13 classic games you can play online for free
Before that, they were stored on floppy disks (the “save” icon on Microsoft Word is modelled after it). Many of those games were played on a computer operating system called MS-DOS ...
Daily Mail17d
How 2,000-year-old Roman dam kept Spanish town safe from floods while modern defences failed as public anger grows at authorities over disaster that may have killed 400
Tragically, the floods proved deadly elsewhere, with official figures indicating that some 2,000 people remain missing and the death toll continuing to rise as teams search for bodies in the ...
The Vancouver Sun19d
After vandalism at family home, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim speaks out about history of 'hate-fuelled attacks'
Other messages written in English include “We hate Sim City” and “Ken Sim hates poor people.” “I can’t fully express the pain of seeing these words sprayed across the place that my ...