Japan scraps all 1,034 regulations governing the use of the floppy disk After more than 50 years since the first one was made, Japan has officially killed off the iconic floppy disk. Amazingly, despite leading the world in groundbreaking technologies, Japan still required its citizens to submit documents stored on floppy disks through the post The floppy disk, invented and …
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CNN — When black holes collide, they typically create gravitational waves that can be detected on Earth, but not light. However, when a black hole merger was observed by ground-based gravitational wave detectors on May 21, 2019, astronomers saw what they think was a flare of light. “If we can do this again and detect light from the mergers of …