The world-renowned DJ and producer Fatboy Slim produced his biggest hits on 1980s hardware: an Atari ST 520. We look back.

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Physicist Jay Gambetta, at IBM’s lab in Yorktown Heights, New York, explains how microwaves orchestrate a solution on a quantum chip: “Think of each qubit as a line in music. You’re creating notes.” ...

Thimaya Subaiya is executive vice president of operations at Cisco, and he oversees security and trust, supply chain, IT, and growth operations at the networking giant. Subaiya is part of the inner ...

A new program at the University of Cambridge library in the UK is asking people to bring in their floppy disks so that any digital artifacts on them can be extracted. Among rediscovered files are ...

Do you have any old floppy disks still lying around in some neglected corner of your house? Do you even know what a floppy disk is? For the uninitiated, floppy disks became commercially available in ...

Pointless? Maybe, but count me in. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I'm sure this will be one for all of those who actually used ...

Things I will never attempt, item one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Reasons I am not an engineer: One, I have a limited supply ...

Scientists used IBM's R2 Heron quantum processor to predict the secondary protein structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA sequence. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A floppy disk did what thumb drives do, back when we talked about megabytes instead of terabytes. It might seem crazy that the 400 remaining Boeing 747s used by airlines and shipping companies around ...