Intertapes digitizes found cassette tapes from around the world. cast-off tapes and thrift-store mysteries turned into an ...

Your grandpa's handed-down items could be more valuable than you expect. A pro filled us in on the vintage items from grandpa ...

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 ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 the sound they produce – ...

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 ...