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2025-08-11

YouTuber recreates a floppy disk from scratch

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because why not. For anyone born too late to have regularly used one, a floppy disk is a magnetically coated, flexible polyester disk encased in a protective shell. Insert it into a floppy drive, and a magnetic head reads or writes data on the disk. If you've ever wondered why the "save" icon looks the way it does, it's based on the shape of a floppy disk.


To start, polymatt measured and [...]

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2025-08-12

The Morning After: The best Switch 2 games (so far)

A couple of months since the Switch 2 launched, we’ve all got to grips with the new magnetic-latching Joy-Cons, the jump in graphic fidelity and (honestly) the wait for a next-gen Zelda or Mario tit [...]

Match Score: 97.51

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2025-08-16

Remember floppy disks? This YouTuber set out to build his own from scratch - see how he got on

YouTuber recreates functioning floppy disk using modern tools, highlighting both nostalgia and the massive advances in storage technology. [...]

Match Score: 95.21

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2025-08-30

This creative concept reinvents the 1.44MB floppy disk as a modern storage device – a holder for today’s SD cards packing terabytes of storage

This creative concept transforms the 1.44MB floppy disk into modern packaging, protecting today’s terabyte SD cards with a playful retro design. [...]

Match Score: 64.92

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2025-02-28

The best portable SSDs for 2025

Whether you want to back up the data on your PC, transfer videos from your Mac or offload a few games from your PlayStation 5, a portable SSD is a quick and easy way to expand your storage. These litt [...]

Match Score: 56.34

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2025-05-29

The best microSD cards in 2025

Most microSD cards are fast enough for boosting storage space and making simple file transfers, but some provide a little more value than others. If you’ve got a device that still accepts microSD ca [...]

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2025-08-28

Talk about hard labor - a US prisoner complains he has to rely on floppy disks for appeal documents, and there's a bizarre reason why

Floppy disk restrictions in US prisons expose inmates to delays, data loss, and disadvantages. [...]

Match Score: 46.14

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2025-08-28

YouTuber draws attention to AI-powered mass vehicle surveillance in the U.S.

YouTuber Ben Jordan demonstrates how to fool AI-powered license plate readers with invisible noise, subverting a surveillance technology that replaces GPS tracking without a warrant.<br /> The a [...]

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2025-09-02

Floppy disks live on - Linux drivers get first update for years, perhaps signalling a comeback for the much-loved system?

Floppy disks linger in Linux through code cleanups, surviving in prisons, retro circles, and industry despite technological advances elsewhere. [...]

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2025-09-30

Researchers find a carbon-rich moon-forming disk around giant exoplanet

Lots of carbon molecules but little sign of water in a super-Jupiter's disk. [...]

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