For some reason, cassette tapes and CDs are making a big comeback, and as a vinyl record collector, I find that disturbing. Luckily, local retro enthusiasts Mark and Dan are here to check out NIMN Lab ...

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 ...

In almost every measurable way, a lossless digital audio file is superior to any analog media. This doesn’t mean that analog audio isn’t valuable though; plenty of people appreciate the compression, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The cassette tape is making a comeback with prices of recent albums sold in the retro format as much as quadrupling in value within weeks of release. And as a new generation chases rare cassettes, ...

Once considered relics in the wake of MP3 players and then streaming services like Spotify, CDs and vinyl records have experienced a revival in recent years. And so too has another piece of seemingly ...

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 ...

IT was acceptable in the Eighties . . . according to the lyrics to the Calvin Harris hit, anyway. But thanks to young people like me, plenty of gear from the bygone era is rising up the rankings of ...

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 ...