Installed in selected rooms at the White House on the President’s orders, this is the story of how a state-of-the-art recording system ultimately led to Richard Nixon’s downfall. Untold is a free ...

In a new take on a technology from the 1960s, this year, researchers created a cassette tape that uses DNA instead of iron oxide to encode information on a plastic tape. It can hold a phenomenal ...

Running out of space on your phone? Don't upgrade your cloud-storage subscription just yet. Scientists in China have discovered that images, text files and other digital data can be stored in strands ...

I’ve written at length before about my love of vinyl records and how pleased I am that, in a largely digital world, they are making something of a ‘comeback’. I’ve also talked about how CDs replaced ...

When Philip Weintraub recorded a message for his son to listen to on prom night, he could've never known that years later, the Internet was listening in Ami Weintraub The year is 1988 and it's prom ...

For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment. Cassettes are fragile, inconvenient, and relatively low-quality in terms of sound quality — ...

When Jody Weintraub turned the key in the ignition of the family car on his way to the prom on May 6, 1988, he was surprised to hear his father's voice. Rather than give his son a lecture about taking ...

A Singaporean designer has found an unexpected use for a once-ubiquitous piece of technology: the cassette tape. Jessica “J.J.” Chuan is the founder of Singapore-based upcycling social enterprise ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The cassette tape. A staple of the Walkmans, car stereos, and ...

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 ...