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A Singaporean designer has found an unexpected use for a once-ubiquitous piece of technology: the cassette tape. Jessica “J.J ...

The 1980s were really the era of cassette tapes. Music-lovers, young and old, at the very least had a cassette player in their car. The luckier ones had a portable tape player or boombox that made it ...

Formed in 2016, We Are Rewind is a French audio company that makes new-age audio players for cassette tapes. It’s best known for the WE-001, a portable cassette player that’s fit for modern-day ...

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In context: Researchers have long explored DNA's unique properties as a medium for digital storage. So far, the experiments have fallen short of practical applications. However, new DNA-based ...

Retro cassette tapes may be making a comeback, with a DNA twist. While DNA has been used as an information storage medium before, researchers have now combined this with the convenience and look of a ...

When Taylor Swift’s releases her new album, “Life of a Showgirl,” in October, it can be heard on the usual places, including streaming, vinyl and…cassette tape? The cassette tape was once one of the ...

Cassettes were my gateway into hi-fi. In my early years, this was my format of choice. Cheap, portable and robust, cassettes were way more accessible to eight-year-old me than vinyl records. I write ...

There was a time when cassette tapes were essential. You would rewind them with a pencil and record songs straight off the radio. Then came CDs, MP3s, and streaming, and tapes were tossed in drawers, ...