Piracy and home-taping was an issue which scared the music industry during the 1980s, but punk legends Dead Kennedys were ...

For this week’s Hack Chat, we’re talking about reverse engineering the Digital Compact Cassette. Why should we care about an obsolete format that was only on the market for four years?

The Digital Compact Cassette, or DCC, was one such format. Released by Philips in 1992 as a replacement for the analog audio cassette, it failed to gain traction in the market and disappeared ...

Introduced by Philips in 1965, the "Compact Cassette" offered an alternative to the much larger vinyl record player as well as the 8-track cartridge. Not only was the drive battery-operated and ...

Cassette tape sales are at a 20-year high ... So, what happened to the compact designs we took for granted in the early 2000s? For The Verge’s YouTube channel, I talked to the companies making ...