- a variation of disk.
disc
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Instead of relying on expensive, highly engineered metamaterials that have traditionally been needed to generate optical skyrmions, the NTU team created them by shining a laser at a small circular disc.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
There will be a box at some stores, yes, but it contains a download code, not a disc.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
By Sony’s gauge, the game disc, for all intents and purposes, has been dead with audiences for a while.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Sony said the upcoming shift "has no impact on games that already released, or will be releasing, prior to January 2028 in disc format."
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
I had the second floor, which meant I got noise from both above and below, two unwanted disc players thumping late into the night.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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The internet is in an uproar over an announcement by Sony, the owner of PlayStation, to stop selling physical game discs by 2028 and release everything digitally.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Players may not have been missing game discs before Sony’s announcement, but they’re likely realizing they will miss them as PlayStation leaves them with fewer choices than ever.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
New PlayStation games will no longer be released on discs from January 2028, the gaming giant has announced.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
While Rockstar hasn’t confirmed the file size of “GTA 6,” Griffin anticipates that the game “will be well north of 150 gigabytes,” he said, which would require multiple physical discs.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
If you stood in a two-dimensional universe you would only be perceived at the point of intersection, you’d be perceived as two oblong discs, two two-dimensional universes, seven-dimensional ones.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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