The US nuclear weapons force still uses a 1970s-era computer system and 8-inch floppy disks, a government report has revealed. The report said taxpayers spent $61bn (£41bn) a year on maintaining ageing technologies.

If a painting has any relevance, you can probably find a digital copy of it on the internet. In fact, you can probably find multiple copies of it in different sizes, resolutions and colour schemes. And here comes the problem - it is impossible to know which of the digital versions best represents the original.

As easy-to-use self-service scanners become commonplace in libraries across the country, the debate over the future of photocopiers is changing. Once, digital scanners were seen as a convenient supplemental service, while the multi-function copy machine was the temperamental workhorse of the library.

Its doors may have closed to pupils 40 years ago but a Dublin school’s roll books are opening a window into the hidden past of the lives of inner city children.

Our digitisation workshops are for the libraries, archives and museums sectors. Our main aim will be to show you an end to end digitisation process from capture through to online serving of the digitised content.

During the second world war one in ten of Britain’s female population joined the WVS. Monthly reports were kept and photographs taken to document the work they undertook between 1938 and 1941.

How do you keep your photos, videos and files safe? Put them on a bunch of cloud servers? Nope – you bury them on the Moon. The hugely ambitious and not-for-profit Lunar Mission One is planning to do just that by inserting a couple of digital archives into a borehole in Moon's south pole in the mid-2020s.

It's not every day you see a monk writing Lanna script on a dried palm leaf with a metal stylus, but the age-old tradition lingers at Wat Phra That Si Chom Thong in Chiang Mai.